MFWM SS23: Etro
MARKING his last solo collection for the eponymous house, Kean Etro infused clothing with a delicate sense of poetry speaking to his love of literature with an array of artistic references.
A step away from ...
Glass reviews The Emma Press Anthology of Illness
IF THERE is one thing that keeps us connected in some way, it’s our tendency to become ill. As a result, there's a certain comfort that can be derived from reading about others' experiences – for sick and healt...
Paper Nations launches project The Great Margin to uplift marginalised creative voices
FORGING connections across a landscape of reduced physical proximity, creative writing incubator, Paper Nations, has launched an innovative online platform for writers from marginalised communities. The project...
Kayo Chingonyi wins Dylan Thomas Prize for Kumukanda
ZAMBIAN-BRITISH poet, Kayo Chingonyi has won the Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for young writers. Chingonyi has been awarded £30,000 for his debut collection of poems titled Kumukanda. This award is the...
Glass previews The Lost Words exhibition at The Foundling Museum
THE Foundling Museum will open a new exhibition titled The Lost Words which explores the relationship between language and the living world. The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between award-winning...
Poem of the Pillow opens at Frameless Gallery, London
FRAMELESS Gallery have just opened a new exhibition entitled Poem of the Pillow, which is a collaboration between emerging female artists Beatrice Lettice Boyle and Jessie Makinson. The exhibition has been cura...
Glass meets Caleb Femi – the Young People’s Laureate for London
PECKHAM-born Caleb Femi is a poet, photographer, filmmaker and English teacher. The first and current titleholder of Young People’s Laureate for London, Femi entered the world of poetry with the aim of highligh...
The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century
Born from post-war socio-political shifts, visual poetry has been a movement of dramatic rise and quick decline in popularity. With the relatively new availability of written word through digital mediums, com...
Guardians of the written word – Glass talks to literary critic Erica Wagner about the world’s most beloved form of literary art – poetry
Guardians of the written word – Glass talks to literary critic Erica Wagner about the world’s most beloved form of literary art – poetry
Erica Wagner, Literary Editor for The Times, reflects on the world’s m...
Glass interviews writer Jeremy Reed — prophet of the radical and marginalised
“PART desperation, high on risk and big crowd anonymity,” visionary poet Jeremy Reed intones in a sotto voce yet raspy drawl upon Piccadilly Bongo, the album opener to Big City Dilemma, his first aural chancing...