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. ...
Gabriel Flynn has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Writing from UEA and was a Kennedy Scholar in the English department at Harvard. He currently lives in Manchester, where he is writing a novel about work.
I. You remember your childhood. Your tow-headed, reddish-tinged mother, who yelled after you all day like a Paraguayan peasant chasing her donkey. And your...