The White Review Poet’s Prize 2023

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January 2023

Prize Entry

January 2023

Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s Poet’s Prize, run in partnership with CHEERIO, and open, for the first time, to poets worldwide....

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Tyranny of the Pomegranate

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June 2023

Reem Abbas

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June 2023

I mind my pomegranate like an open door watch it from the corner of my bed with the lights on. It grows on trees...

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June 2023

Inside Harbour Point, Lagos Island

Àjọkẹ́ Bọ́dúndé

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June 2023

We dance like we are on fire. Perhaps we are in hell. Each one of us circling the belly...

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June 2023

Fish-woman

Courtney DuChene

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June 2023

As I swam in the bathtub, they wondered what they had done to have a fish instead of a...

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June 2023

Marylebone Station 1974

Marius Grose

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June 2023

The first man who cruised me was a policeman...

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June 2023

Poet as Cyborg Pornstar

Hasti

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June 2023

It starts with the turn. Her slender edges, the...

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June 2023

at our table

Dillon Jaxx

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June 2023

we eat our own tongues              wash off the...

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June 2023

Jungle Girl

Yessica Klein

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June 2023

I. bushmeat consumption has been forbidden since 1965 but...

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June 2023

Bad Daughters

Lola Oh

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June 2023

After Frannie Choi   leaving, good daughters staying home...

Interview

May 2023

Interview with Geetanjali Shree

Reya Divekar

Interview

May 2023

In her 2022 International Booker Prize-winning novel, Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree writes, ‘Anything worth doing transcends borders.’ It...

Essay

May 2023

Hating it Lush: On Tel Aviv

Kaleem Hawa

Essay

May 2023

I   They made the desert bloom, tall sparkling...

From the archive

Issue No. 31

Three Poems

Fran Lock

From the archive

Issue No. 31

#DROWNINGNOTDROWNING   to find me, plausible and aspiring in...

Art Review

May 2023

A little menace is fine

Naomi Pearce

Art Review

May 2023

Don’t you ever want the kind of family where...

Interview

April 2023

Interview with Kathryn Scanlan

Samir Chadha

Interview

April 2023

The first story in The Dominant Animal, Kathryn Scanlan’s...

Magnetised: A Conversation with Ricardo Melogno

Essay

Issue No. 25

Carlos Busqued

TR. Samuel Rutter

Essay

Issue No. 25

The following text is the condensed result of over ninety hours of dialogue with Ricardo Melogno, recorded between November 2014 and December 2015. The...

Fiction

April 2023

Who Killed Bambi?

Monika Fagerholm

TR. Bradley Harmon

Fiction

April 2023

LET’S START HERE. One morning, September 2014.               Gusten Grippe is walking down to the waterfront. Kallsjön, Villastan:...

Interview

March 2023

Interview with Akram Zaatari

Julia Kozakiewicz

Interview

March 2023

Akram Zaatari was born in Saida, Lebanon in 1966. While growing up, armed conflict and a perpetual crisis loomed...

From the archive

Issue No. 26

Country Matters

Sarah Fletcher

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Issue No. 26

DEDICATION   Flamingo, urchin, bestiaric beast: Paroling city matters,...

Essay

March 2023

Attachment Barbies: On Watching Grey’s Anatomy

Helen Charman

Essay

March 2023

In August 2022, ABC announced that Ellen Pompeo, currently...

Book Review

March 2023

Trash Like This

Megan Nolan

Book Review

March 2023

There’s an anecdote I sometimes wheel out to strangers...

Fiction

Issue No. 10

Resistance

Chris Kraus

Fiction

Issue No. 10

31 Standish Ave., Rosedale, Toronto 5 7 February, 1963...

Art Review

March 2023

On the Altar of the Rat King

Sam Moore

Art Review

March 2023

Walking into Surrender, Jenkin van Zyl’s installation in which...

Poetry

February 2023

Three Poems

Meena Kandasamy

Poetry

February 2023

VISA GODS   In this story, Eurydice is dark & deadly & has lived all her life in Hades....

Essay

February 2023

Working Girl

Sophia Giovannitti

Essay

February 2023

In 2021, I collapsed all of my identities onto...

Fiction

February 2023

Paca Meat

Paulliny Tort

TR. Rahul Bery

Fiction

February 2023

Joaquim Baiano’s land is near the source of the...

Essay

February 2023

Chains or Whips? The Cruel Decade and its Aftermath

Kristian Vistrup Madsen

Essay

February 2023

It seems to me that the 00s ended with...

Poetry

Issue No. 29

ABOUT CHINESE WOMEN

Jennifer Lee Tsai

Poetry

Issue No. 29

Suicide without a cause, or silent sacrifice for an...

Stench

Fiction

January 2023

Cao Kou

TR. Canaan Morse

Fiction

January 2023

The scent of osmanthus blossoms still lingered in her neighbourhood when a handful of men entered her home. Yet when they stepped through her...

Film Review

January 2023

You Don’t Think God Is Sexy?

Philippa Snow

Film Review

January 2023

On the most literal level, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s elliptical, spiritual-cum-sensual movie Teorema (1968) is about an entire family being...

Fiction

January 2023

Afternoon Tea

Camila Sosa Villada

TR. Kit Maude

Fiction

January 2023

‘Grandma… Why are we brown?’   The grandmother puts down the rifle she’s been cleaning. Another rifle and a...

Debt

Fiction

December 2022

Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams

Fiction

December 2022

This is the story of a book we are still writing.   –   Edinburgh, July 2014. The sluggishness of early afternoon. The sky...

 

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