Author of the Month: Balla
“When I write I spend a lot of time weighing every word — although ultimately I end up picking the wrong word anyway.” Radhika Malaviya interviews Slovak writer Balla, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month.
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The Second Cemetery Book
“Today I’ve become a writer again because it’s raining, and when it’s raining I can’t collect cardboard, because it’s raining.” Story of the Week (February 28), by Daniela Kapitáňová. Translated from Slovak by Julia Sherwood.
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Five Haiku
“Come winter and my caravan clamours./ A violet river flows/ lost in the mist-nets; I chew off time.” Five haiku by Nandini Sahu.
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Poet of the Month: Iain Britton
“I have always been fascinated by mysteries, enigmas…” Iain Britton, our Poet of the Month, in conversation with Camille Ralphs.
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Szilárd Borbély 1964-2014
“Your humility, your generosity, and your humanity… almost seemed too profound and too delicate for this age.” In memory of Szilárd Borbély (1964-2014).
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Furfuri’s Innocent Meal
“During the month of Bhadro, the moon is totally eclipsed in the evening. The darkness of that night can only be compared to a blind inferno.” Story of the Week (February 21 – Language Martyrs’ Day), by Anwar Shahadat. Translated from Bengali by Masrufa Ayesha Nusrat.
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Poem (Triptych)
“Maybe we, in the end,/ knew all the world there was/ in an unidentifiable whisper.” Poem of the Week (February 18), by Rowland Bagnall.
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10 Poems for Valentine’s Day
The Missing Slate’s literature team brings you a selection of love poems for Valentine’s Day.
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Kryptonite
“He pulled out another piece. Its green color was more artificial than the most artificial dye I had ever seen, more green than the green of absinthe…” Story of the Week (February 14), by Michael Stein.
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Ghalib
“I alone survived/ to take down their corpses hanging/ from the trees, the lamp-posts…” Poem of the Week (February 11), by Abhay Kumar.
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