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.
The ‘beautiful disorder’ of the Forbidden City and the Yuanmingyuan (Garden of Perfection and Light) was first noted by the Jesuit painter Jean Denis...