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. ...
Owen Hatherley is a writer based in south-east London, and the author of several books, most recently Landscapes of Communism (Allen Lane), A New Kind of Bleak (Verso) and Across the Plaza (Strelka).
‘To live,’ writes Walter Benjamin, ‘means to leave traces’. As one might expect, Benjamin’s observation is not without a certain melancholy. Traces are lost...