State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation John Fuller Tony Hoagland's poems poke and

Tony Hoagland's poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight

Joan Margarit evoked the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath

Evgeny Vinokurov

continuing a centuries-old unbroken line of literary creation in the language of the region

Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence

State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation John Fuller Tony Hoagland's poems poke andHow do we think of ourselves as poets? How does our race, our home(s), and our cultural heritage, shape our sense of belonging, our ways of seeing or experiencing the world? How can we learn from and offer support to each other? State of Play brings together conversations between an international line up of poets, taking place over the course of a year, to offer rich insights into these questions and the ways a life lived in many places can invigorate