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 instability of an accent, its borrowed and hybridised phonetic form, is testimony not to someone’s origins but only to an unstable and migratory...