Rabbit 34

William Carlos Williams once wrote, in his poem ‘Asphodel, That Greeny Flower’, that ‘It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.’ He’s telling us that, while we can’t rely on poetry to deliver news bulletins, poems do offer something vital that we would do well to take in equal doses to our daily news consumption. So, what is this vital aspect—or aspects—that can be found in poems? This issue of Rabbit explores the potential of the ‘reportage’ poem to attend to and evoke this vital aspect. Featuring poems by Emilie Collyer, Nandi Chinna, Sara M Saleh, Pam Brown & Emily Stewart, Alicia Sometimes, Ellen van Neervan and more.