“We write so we do not have memory alone to rely on, so that we do not forget — who we are, where we have come from and all the things that we can be.”
Ama Asantewa Diaka, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month (January 2017), talks to Jacob Silkstone.
“I don’t think there has ever been a better time for publishers to focus on translated literature…”
As part of our Spotlight Translator series, Jacob Silkstone interviews Rosie Hedger.
“The narrative is fragmented and nightmarish, existing in a state of almost-perpetual darkness, but perhaps necessarily so…”
Jacob Silkstone reviews ‘Z213: Exit’, the first volume in Dimitris Lyacos’ Poena Damni trilogy.
From Leonard Cohen to literary translations, a hip hop artist to a Hollywood musical, bildungsroman to the passing of a great art critic, The Missing Slate’s 2016 picks reflect a year of diversity and nostalgia.
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“As with all good books, the questions it poses linger long after the final page…”
Jacob Silkstone reviews Mushtaq Bilal’s collection of interviews with Pakistan’s leading English-language fiction writers.
“For us, the poet, it can seem our entire lives up to this point depend on getting it right, and when we finally feel it’s ready, and we send it off, get it published, and see it in print, we usually realize we made the wrong call…” The Missing Slate talks with Alexis Groulx and Domenic Scopa.
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“Britain is a small island, and (it thinks) it can only handle one successful Black artist at a time…” Continuing our Poet of the Month series, Kadija Sesay talks to Jacob Silkstone.
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Close readings of five poems from the Saboteur 2016 Best Pamphlet shortlist.
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The Missing Slate’s poetry editors talk about time, love and everything in-between in our Meet the Editors series.
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The Missing Slate’s 2015 round up of the books that helped define our year.
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