Author of the Month: Robert Earle
“Mexico was the most spectacular, vital, provocative country… Anything can happen in Mexico, and its mysteries are endless.” Robert Earle, our Author of the Month for September, talks to Isra Ansari.
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Poet of the Month: Hubert Moore
“In the UK, as things stand, poetry is too weak to bring change…” Hubert Moore, our Poet of the Month for August, talks to Camille Ralphs.
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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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Author of the Month: Maria Pinto
“I try and try to constantly look at the world as if nothing is obvious, like children do. I mostly fail at that because the lens can’t help but harden as one gets older…” Maria Pinto, Author of the Month for August, talks to Santiago J. Sanchez.
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Author of the Month: Zsolt Láng
“It takes me six years to write a novel and quite possibly it will end up in the litter bin once it is finished.” Zsolt Láng, Author of the Month for July, talks to fiction editor Maliha Iftekhar.
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Poet of the Month: Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
“I like poetry best when its meaning is at its most fluid…” In our July Poet of the Month interview, Poetry World Cup winner Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé talks to Jacob Silkstone.
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Author of the Month: Fiona Inglis
“Everyone’s afraid of being ugly and ending up alone. It’s become a modern day mental plague.” Fiona Inglis, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month, talks to Umamah Wajid.
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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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Celebrating Literature: A Conversation with Waqas Khwaja
In an exclusive conversation with Sana Hussain, poet Waqas Khwaja shares his ambivalence about the abundance of literature festivals in Pakistan, and comments on the impossibility of translations, his experience guest editing the Atlanta Review’s issue on Pakistani poetry and his passion for literature and poetry.
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Loopy Tunes: Where Is That Music Coming From?
The Missing Slate’s Mavra Bari talks to Toronto-based musician Kira May about what sets looping apart in the music scene and makes it such a fixture in Toronto’s urban landscape.
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