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. ...
Julia Bell is a writer of novels, poems, essays and screenplays, and Course Director of the MA Creative Writing at Birkbeck. She divides her time between London and Berlin.
‘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...