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One way of distinguishing the short prose poems of Dominique Hecq’s Endgame with No Ending from, say, flash fiction, would be to argue that while flash fiction’s centre of gravity is narrative, for these prose poems, the centre of gravity is language (or writing) itself. This is not to say that Hecq’s poems are just ‘writing about writing’, but that they address or encompass the materialities of language, textuality, and the conditions of possibility for writing.

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As a political refugee, Garrido-Salgado is essentially a travelling poet, and his suitcase of words creates and reimagines home through the act of writing a poem. The dilemma of writing a poem is considered from many angles, including the key concern that the dual tools of his trade, Spanish and English, are the language of the coloniser.

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David Nash was born in County Cork and lives between Ireland and Chile. He completed his MA in Writing in Goldsmiths, University of London in 2010, where he won the Pat Kavanagh award for Best Portfolio, the first poet to do so. Since then he has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Stinging Fly, Modern Queer Poets, The White Review, Propel, and the Dedalus anthology Local Wonders.

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Jane’s poems are the paintings and portraits of a person watching the difficult moments of their life happening. There is always a part of every poet that remains an observer, even at the worst extremity, that stands apart to watch what is happening.

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