Towards a Definition by Rupert M. Loydell

Prose-poetry is when a person behaves differently from what is considered normal — and realises they have stepped into someone else's arms, someone who is as much in control of the world as they are.

It is a place where language is all compression and angle; tautness; a signpost to a different meaning. It is a key to a house with no doors, to a library full of books you want to read but must use to stoke the fire — for otherwise there is no warmth.



[from Sentence: a journal of prose poetics (No. 3, 2005)]