Rabbit 19

Charles Simic calls the prose poem ‘the monster child of two incompatible strategies, the lyric and the narrative,’ and says that it demonstrates ‘the lyric’s wish to make the time stop around an image,’ as well as the desire ‘to tell a little story.’ So what happens when the ‘little story’ is drawn from real world experience?  Renowned prose-poets and poetry scholars Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington reconsider the potential of the prose poem along non-fiction lines. Featuring works by Ouyang Yu, Wes Lee, Anne Elvey, Claire Gaskin, Anne Caldwell, Berndt Sellheim, Carl Walsh, Lois Roma-Deeley and more.