by Matthew | Jul 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
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 | Jul 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Matthew | Jul 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
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 | Jul 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
Poetry editor Matthew Landrum (pictured left with issue 12 author Lawrence Schimel) reflects on the recent AWP Conference in Minneapolis. With twenty official hourly events, many offsite offerings, and an 18-row book fair, AWP is overwhelmingly wonderful and...
by Matthew | Jul 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Photo (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) by Marco Martinelli.This from our poetry editor Matthew Landrum.When I put the first call out for my annual psalm contest, I had no idea the direction it would take, what a wonderful response the prompt would elicit, and how much beauty...
