Rabbit is currently accepting submissions of nonfiction poetry for Issue 36: the ART Issue, to be guest co-edited by Leah Muddle and Angela Gardner.
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RABBIT is currently accepting submissions of nonfiction poetry for Issue 35: The ARCHITECTURE Issue, to be guest edited by Ella Jeffery.
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‘A poem that draws on the sciences may sometimes start with a thought or subject far from science—but science then offers the image, metaphor, naming vocabulary that opens a door that poem needed to find.’
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‘We say ‘when this is all over’ as a way of fantasising about certain things: touching people, wandering the streets, lying in the sun. But we know that there’s nothing to return to, that is, there is only something different ahead, something yet to be realised, something to hope for and build towards.’
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‘Grappling with the parallax, / I slammed the brakes and tipped.’
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‘It’s true that I find the horizon and the construction of vanishing-point perspective really interesting—almost a language, trying to get at a tension between inwardness and the world as it is.’
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‘but what’s the difference // between diving and bound-to-happen falling? / These curved lines—they must / describe passage underneath.’
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‘denuded pastures knocked up with alien seed / forced into furrows with too much water, the thirstiest of crops / invasive, intensive, insistent impositions’
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‘The prose poem’s disruption of linearity and closure, means it’s a form that is always in the process of becoming; it is always rejecting the scripts of hegemonic and social convention.’
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‘I don't subscribe to poetry as a remedy, no more than I do the pills in my bathroom drawer. They're part of the spectrum of things that equal tomorrow, and the day after that.’
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‘So there is a time for laughter and camaraderie and connection, and there is a time where that immediacy just isn't available—and the distance, sobriety and grief becomes part of what is conveyed, including the irony of, say, trying to read an energetic, humorous poem in a setting or in a tone that doesn't lend itself to that levity.’
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‘imagine a barb-wired mist. imagine / memory’s leash. your breath a steady war.’
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‘it’s good to be walking / past a new tree, even / if it’s just that / i collect / myself’
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The word ‘lineage’ derives from the Latin linea, meaning a line. It is an account of how things are related in an iterated sequence—describing, for instance, how particular ancestors give rise to descendants in a family tree, or how a species evolves over time from one form to the next, or how ideas have developed over time by being taken up and advanced by one thinker after another.’
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‘Borders have very little to do with physical boundaries and far more to do with ideational ones. For me, the practice of political thought is very much about understanding ideological coding, about learning how we are constructed as subjects.’
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‘A lot of my poems end up being driven by a feeling, the desire to communicate something abstract in a concrete, resonant way—I look toward how language can do that, rather than structure. And I think that’s because I love the language of lyric poetry.’
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‘As I’ve aged, I have developed a fairly relaxed attitude to writing poetry—it’s a form of play involving a mix of words, ideas, images, sounds, textures, shapes and rhythms—a pleasure that nothing else provides. The poem generates from nowhere, everywhere, or anywhere.’
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‘but somebody tipped the bins / somebody wrote no in the sky’
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