HOUSE STYLE

The Marrow uses the following house style in matters of presentation:

Author name: Minimal style initials, no full points e.g., JS Bach (not J. S. Bach or J.S. Bach) unless referring to an established brand e.g., T. S. Eliot Prize

Poem title: Capitalised on unique poem webpage, otherwise (e.g., table of contents, editorial, social channels) title case, unless the submitted poem uses sentence case or lower case e.g., ‘When the Blind Elephant Listens to Bach’ but ‘The witch is with child’

Journal & newspaper titles: Italics, title case e.g., The London Magazine, Mississippi Review (unless the publication itself uses sentence case or lower case e.g., iamb, takahe, or all-caps, e.g., HOWL)

Quote marks: Single, smart quotes to refer to a poem title (double quotes only for quotes within quotes)

Dashes: Unspaced em-dash used throughout for strong interruptions, sudden breaks in thought, or to replace commas, colons, or parentheses for emphasis.

Unspaced en-dash reserved for connecting numbers, dates, or words representing a range, e.g., 1-10, London-Paris etc.