'Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton, two expert practitioners and theorists of ‘the monster child’ (Simic in Zawaki 2000: 300) that is prose poetry, note in a co-authored paper that ‘prose poems frequently open up, TARDIS-like, to reveal much more than their actual size on the page would appear to allow’ (Hetherington & Atherton 2015: 275).' (Introduction)