For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages.

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive. When I was 12 years old, I was responsible for the death of my ...

How meaning slips from lyric imagination to power and code in the post-Enlightenment age Christopher Caudwell foresaw the ...