by Matthew | May 3, 2017 | Events, Front page
On Sunday, April 9, Signal-Return hosted Power of the Press Fest at Detroit’s Eastern Market. The festival tied together print-makers, text and visual artists, bookbinders (including Structo alum Christine Darragh), literary journals, and small presses. It was a fun...
by Matthew | Apr 25, 2017 | Front page, Reviews
Water for Days of Thirst Blanca Castellón Threnody for Joaquín Pasos Carlos Martínez Rivas In translation, I seek another country, another world. I long to not only read translation to be translated, which in Latin means carried across. A great translation does this,...
by Matthew | Jun 10, 2016 | Currently reading
Roald Dahl had one. Virginia Woolf had one. Thoreau went to one to live deliberately. Hemingway had one over his garage with a bridge to his bedroom. Now I’m building one too. Sandwiched between the chicken yard and the sheep pen on my friend’s farm,...
by Matthew | May 30, 2016 | Author news, Front page
I am thrilled to announce that Structo‘s first poetry chapbook is now available. Christina Seymour’s collection Flowers Around Your Soft Throat is built around her winning entry for the 2015 Structo psalms contest, ‘A Song of Loves’, and...
by Matthew | Mar 23, 2016 | Author news
Each year we have the honour of nominating poems for the Forward Prize. It’s a difficult thing, choosing from the last two issues’ lovely and memorable poems but after some wrestling and rereading we settled on these four pieces: ‘Trouble...
