I used to think of the Iraq-Afghanistan Wars as somewhat Orwellian: the braying voices of politicians committing us to endless war against unseen enemies, the constant lies and the clumsy but barefaced covering up of those lies, the imprisonment of mildly dissenting citizens for crimes the state decides the nature of in secret and at […]

Cordite Poetry Review‘s Epic edition is now online. The issue’s guest editor, Ali Alizadeh, writes of his interest in the epic poem being met with rejection and ridicule on a poetry forum, and the form is self-consciously referred to as archaic. I’m here to tell you that epic/narrative poetry is far from past its expiry […]