Poetry Now: Introduction

This issue features a range of scholarly articles and poems that investigate poetry’s evolving place in the contemporary moment. Many of the articles prioritise a process of looking backwards, exploring the Kierkegaardian tenet that “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” (as cited in Jorgensen, 2006, p. xxxvii). In this way, history is never in the past but constantly in our present and future, informing our choices.