Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Oliver Comins

  • Two poems by Oliver Comins

    Two poems by Oliver Comins

    Early Doors They always said the larks were here in spirit,having disappeared while meadows were transformedto streets and drains when this became a gardened suburb. Heading for their allotment, my […]

  • Two poems by Oliver Comins

    Two poems by Oliver Comins

    Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash           An Away Match   One long and wide hall filled with dancers limbering and jostling at each of three […]

  • Two poems by Oliver Comins

    Two poems by Oliver Comins

        Photo by Alessandro Bogliari on Unsplash            Another XI   A cricket tea on a boundary edge in old heat. Trains and cars passed, skirting the […]

  • Two poems by Oliver Comins

    Two poems by Oliver Comins

            Golf Behind Trees   An elegant course is exposed by newly opened air. There used to be a thick hedge, armed with trees. We would hear the […]

  • Three poems by Oliver Comins

    Three poems by Oliver Comins

      Oliver writes: These are part of a ‘calendar’ of 12 poems set in Pitshanger Park, near where I live in Ealing. The Park is a place of leisure, but […]