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KCL student poets: Maleeha Mir, Maria Orlando, Amy Hill
Maleeha Mir Southend on Sea, 2018 It’s hard to believe they’d be happy to sit there on plastic red chairs, ready to be thrown away by […]
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Two poems by Nicola Healey
Six Months Away (After Robert Lowell) Discharged as ‘homeless’, then to a room that felt wilfully hostile (lurid curtains and bristling carpet squares), I was […]
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Three poems by Ammar Aziz
My father believes in Triclavianism Inner parts of a grinder, Dead batteries, bulbs, Steel tub of a washer, A few metal strings, A toaster without the […]
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‘Last’: a poem by Ali Lewis
Last In the religion of my dad one story is that a temple lamp lasts not forever but just a little longer than could reasonably be […]
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‘madonna’: a poem by Charlie Baylis
madonna there’s no art in america, it’s all sugar & war. – sophie robinson i wake up dreaming i’ve made it here in new york […]
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Two poems by Naush Sabah
The Burial And when the pestilence passed through the second time We stood stunned in the wreckage of our lives. I picked Up a shattered picture […]
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Two poems by Scott Elder
The Elegance of a Simple Soul Utterly out of place a sloth in a dark café movements too slow to be noticed a glass of port […]
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Two poems by Mat Riches
Ash He found out I smoked the day I went off to university, and disapproved, of course, but nothing he could do or say. Although, he […]
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Two poems by Arundhathi Subramaniam
When Landscape Becomes Woman I was eight when I looked through a keyhole and saw my mother in the drawing room in her hibiscus silk sari, […]
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‘The Terrific-Strange’: some student poets of 1965
Mark Valentine In 1958 a group of tutors and students at the University of North Staffordshire, Keele, published a booklet anthology entitled Universities’ Poetry One. It was […]
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Three poems by Eric Ngalle Charles
Picture Credit: Paul Musso Hay Festival 2019 If Heaven is Her Father’s Land, Her Father Can Keep It Let the rains come in June not […]
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‘Outside the Turf Club, Piccadilly’: a poem by L Kiew
Outside the Turf Club, Piccadilly There’s too much moustache wax and pastel corduroy, an excess of vetivers, Trumper’s Extract of Lime, scads of green Spanish leather, […]
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‘In Between’: a poem by Alan Zhukovski
In Between A rebellious leaf tries his best to remain on the branch. He trembles from pain and air. He’s not a material but a product […]
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Two poems by Ranjit Hoskote
Picture credit: Jurgen Brocan Ranjit Hoskote’s The Atlas of Lost Beliefs was published by Arc in April and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2020. […]
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Two poems by Emily Bilman
Inscape Treading the wild moors for miles A solitary figure gathered leeches That would soak sick bodies, purge Their blood, cleanse, and cure them. Like the […]
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Two poems by Will Stone after Georg Trakl
De Profundis There is a pine forest on which an acid rain falls. There is a tree of limbs that stands lonely here. There is a […]
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‘Root’: a poem by Suna Afshan
Root At the bottom of the garden In the heart of a blackberry bush Are limbs that do not bleed marrow. Feather bone, iron blood, mind of […]
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‘A parent’s age’: on the poetry of Rory Waterman
Matthew Stewart ‘Belonging’ and ‘estrangement’ are key terms when getting to grips with Rory Waterman’s poetry. They played an explicitly pivotal role in his early years, but […]
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Two poems by Niall Campbell
Passing a Lake and Noticing There Were Swimmers The lake-swimmers push out again. Clothes wrapped in plastic on the bank. Is this what freedom is? The […]
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‘The Birdman’: a poem by Christine Roseeta Walker
The Birdman He knew he wasn’t like the parakeets in the guinep tree or the egrets in the mangrove or like the bridge where the river […]