100 Pages Of Poetry As Evidence

Could the poet’s mind and words help us come together and find other ways of thinking, relocating senses that have become attenuated in order to comprehend again? Could we subvert the mind game and re-imagine the news? What if we could imagine the morning newspaper written and conceived by poets rather than corporations, governments, political parties and ideological projects? In the first issue of 2024, Outlook brings to you 100 pages of prophecy in the form of a selection of poems that help us glimpse the past, the present and the future and how we, the readers and survivors of our times, understand and respond to our own selves in an AI-controlled, digitally manipulated and market-choreographed landscape of ideas, desires and feelings. 

Guest edited by Amar Kanwar, the issue presents a selection of poetry and verses that have moved us and that we feel serve as evidence of our bleak times and lives - of truth, distortions or simply of existence - and as a premonition of what is yet to come.