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. ...
Sophie Robinson is the author of a (Les Figues, 2009) and The Institute of Our Love in Disrepair (Bad Press, 2012). She lives in Norwich, where she is a Lecturer in Poetry at the University of East Anglia.
Establish remorse from outset. Express bewilderment at sequence of events so unlikely, so absurd and catastrophic. Assure all present of blemish-free record, respect for...