Meet the Editors: Poetry
The Missing Slate’s poetry editors talk about time, love and everything in-between in our Meet the Editors series.
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Poet of the Month: Vicki Husband
“I got the sense that poetry is much more a part of life in Pakistan than it is in the UK…” Vicki Husband, The Missing Slate’s October Poet of the Month, in conversation with Jamie Osborn.
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Simple Complex Shapes
“There is a morphous quality to the words in ‘Simple Complex Shapes’: they refuse to stay put.” Jamie Osborn reviews Vahni Capildeo’s latest collection.
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I Will Grow, I Will Bear Fruit
“This is a novel that dwells in and grasps at the ephemeral…” Jamie Osborn reviews Payam Feili’s dream-like “I Will Grow, I Will Bear Fruit”.
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Poet of the Month: Chelsey Harris
“It’s extremely gratifying to be able to change my own story if I want, or to be able to change any story for that matter.” Chelsey Harris, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month for July, talks to Jamie Osborn.
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Poet of the Month: Esther Phillips
“I love to work with language that forces me to choose the most powerful way to express what I feel in the fewest words…” Esther Phillips, our February Poet of the Month, in conversation with Jamie Osborn.
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Poet of the Month: Raoul Schrott
“Poetry is a kind of echo-sounding….” Continuing the Poet of the Month interview series, Raoul Schrott talks to Jamie Osborn.
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Spotlight Poet: McDonald Dixon
“Like water, Art must find its level. It cannot be all things to all men.” In the week of his 70th birthday, McDonald Dixon talks to The Missing Slate’s Jamie Osborn.
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Poet of the Month: Kwame Dawes
“Even when there is pomp and splendor there is probably a streak of fecal matter in the briefs of the King.” The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, Kwame Dawes, in conversation with Jamie Osborn.
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