Thank You to Pulp Lit Poetry Editors Daniel Cowper & Emily Osborne

Farewell to Our Pulp Poetry Duo

Daniel Cowper has been our poetry editor from the very beginning of Pulp Literature back when we were plotting Issue 1 in 2013. He was joined by his wife, Emily Osborne on Issue 20, Autumn 2018 and the two of them have been working tirelessly to bring scintillating poetry to our pages. Aside from 48 issues of the magazine, between them they have curated eleven shortlists for the Magpie Award and two Kingfisher Prize shortlists, all while starting a family, building a house, and releasing several books of poetry each through various presses.

After eleven years as our poetry editors at Pulp Literature Press, this talented couple is moving onto new ventures. While goodbyes are always bittersweet, we are looking on in anticipation to see what they will do next!

For a hint at what lies ahead for this duo, join us in celebrating some recent news ..

Daniel Cowper’s nove in verse, Kingdom of the Clock, was published this year by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Find this novel exploring contemporary urban living here!

And congratulations are also in order for Emily Osborne, whose translation of ‘Cruel Loss of Sons’ by Egill Skallagrímsson, originally seen in The Paris Review Issue 250, was longlisted for Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2025 Anthology.

Thank you again to Daniel and Emily for all of their hard work these past eleven years. Under their thoughtful eyes, Pulp Literature has been able to populate each issue with beautiful, moving works of poetry. And their selections for our annual poetry contests, through their curation of each longlist and shortlist, have resulted in groups of winning poems that continue to delight us, our readers, and our judges!

We wish Daniel and Emily the best in their next endeavours!

While Daniel and Emily are moving on, we at Pulp Literature Press remain determined to publish evocative poems of all kinds! Stay tuned to the blog for updates, and for an announcement regarding poetry submissions and our next poetry editor!

Daniel Cowper is from Bowen Island, BC. After studying medieval literature, philosophy, and law in Vancouver, Manhattan, and Toronto, Daniel is building a cabin on Bowen Island. Daniel’s poetry has appeared in Arc Poetry, Literary Review of Canada, Prairie Fire, Vallum, and other reviews and anthologies in Canada, the US, and Ireland. Daniel is the author of The God of Doors, published in 2017 as co-winner of Frog Hollow Press’s Chapbook Contest, and Grotesque Tenderness, published in 2019 by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Emily Osborne is the author of the poetry chapbook Biometrical (Anstruther Press, 2018) and the book of Old Norse to English verse translations, Quarrel of Arrows (Junction Books, 2020). She is the winner of The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry 2018, and her poetry has been published in CV2, The Malahat Review, Barren Magazine, Canthius, The Literary Review of Canada and elsewhere. She earned a PhD in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature from the University of Cambridge and held a postdoctoral fellowship in medieval literature and linguistics at The University of British Columbia.