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. ...
ALOK VAID-MENON is the author of Beyond the Gender Binary (Penguin Workshop, 2020), Femme in Public (2017) and Your Wound / My Garden (2021). Their poetic challenge to the gender binary is internationally renowned.
I am standing in a parallelogram of shrubbery outside London City Airport. Ed is twisting a dial on his Mamiya RZ67 and squinting into its viewfinder. He...