For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Dalya Bilu was born in South Africa. She attended the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has been translating Hebrew literature in English for many years and has received a number of awards for her work.
Trying to figure out what marks contemporary literature as contemporary is a deceptively complicated job because the concept of contemporaneity at stake is itself...