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. ...
Nick Thurston is a poet and non-fiction writer. He's co-editor of the publishing collective Information as Material and an academic at the University of Leeds. His last book, Of the Subcontract, was published in summer 2013. His next book, Somebody's Got To Do It: Selected Writings by Pavel Büchler Since 1986, will be published by Ridinghouse in 2015.
Trying to figure out what marks contemporary literature as contemporary is a deceptively complicated job because the concept of contemporaneity at stake is itself...