Prose Poem and the Journal Shi'r

The journal "Shi'r" (1957-70) was a professional avant-garde monthly journal founded in Beirut by suf al-Khal with a group of young poets and was dedicated to poetry and poetic studies. The journal supported poetic experimentation and became a centre of various types of cultural practice. In the course of time, the activities of the group that were linked to the journal were consolidated in what was called 'the Shi'r movement'. This book examines the ongoing debates about Shi'r which continued a