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).
El Polaco appears brandishing his Stanley, as he lovingly calls his pocket knife. Five young hooligans huddle round him like classroom students. He leaves...