“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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“In Denmark, as in all other places, it is almost impossible to make a living as a writer.” Adda Djørup, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for January, talks to Jacob Silkstone.
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“Female empowerment does not look the same in every society; it does not even look the same in two different women.” Yusra Amjad, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month for January, in conversation with Camille Ralphs.
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“Whilst we largely owe our brain anatomy to a massive succession of remote and infinitesimal biochemical events (through mutation and natural selection), the evolutionary “panacea†alone cannot account for all by-products of brain function”, writes Karl Malone Magalhães in this week’s essay.
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At a time where everyone seems to be on social media decrying the latest controversy or terrorist attack, Emily Eagen explores whether online activism can really make a difference.
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Flora de Falbe starts our ‘Poets on Poets’ series by reflecting on sexism and censorship in organised religion.
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“I walk around, circling the demi-gods / From previous lives, when syllables would sing / The passions of my youth…” Weekend poem, by Michael C. Blumenthal.
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Michael Dodd writes on Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’, “a wry look at modern celebrity and the struggle to keep up with an ever-changing digital and fame-obsessed world”.
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“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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“…but that is a poem I cannot write./ that is a cartoon we cannot draw.” Poem of the Week (January 27), by Amna Y. Khan.
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