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‘Arctic’: a poem by Christian Ward
Arctic The first time you tasted chemotherapy,there were no side effects apart from an Arcticchill turning your lips blue like the wiryhospital blanket you wrapped yourself in. You shivered the […]
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‘Football in the marshes’: a poem by Nikos Keim
Football in the marshes Bright green from the black earthAs the teams in their primary coloursMove like tides across the luscious turfCries sharpen on the cold airAnd I pass, wishing […]
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‘The Little One’: a poem by Idman Omar
The Little One is a madam, is more parrotthan fluffy bunny, more myselfclotted. Is the drink of the sky, thevisitor of my life. Wakes my metal heart withgaping cries and […]
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Two poems by Anthony White
The Ungodly Hour of the Morning …comes later now than then.When my mother hissed from the top of the stairs“I told you to be home by tenI’ve been worried sick”, […]
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‘Worshipping at the Shrine of Artemis’: a poem by Saul Levene
Worshipping at the Shrine of Artemis, the Hunter You kneel in the underbrush clutching a knife in one hand, antler in the other, sawing, blistering away in the […]
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‘The Retired Agronomist….’: a poem by Rebecca Goss
The poem below is taken from Rebecca Goss’ fourth collection, Latch, recently published by Carcanet. There will be an online launch for the book on the evening of Wednesday 7th […]
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‘Delivery Boy’: a poem by Ali Ashhar
Delivery Boy The rain has started bucketing down. As the delivery boy tries to find shelter his cellphone starts buzzing constantly; he picks it up with a heavy […]
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‘Ted Bar’: a poem by Tim Cumming
Ted Bar On the down escalator at Tottenham Court Road after Stick in the Wheel’s gig at the 100 Club, I’m reckoning the last time I took those […]
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The confessional as poetry’s play within a play: on Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana
Matthew Stewart Deeply personal collections, packed with poems that narrate break-ups and emotional turmoil, tend to encourage the reader to narrow the distance between the poet and the lyrical ‘I’ […]
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‘Zandvoort Fishergirl’: a poem by Helen Evans
‘The Zandvoort Fishergirl’ by Elizabeth Adela Forbes, 1884. Penlee Gallery Zandvoort Fishergirl after the painting by Elizabeth Adela Forbes Left hand on her hip, her right hand balancing an earthenware […]
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Two poems by Daragh Byrne
Back to Life The pub was closed for Christ’s yearly dying. Good Friday — regulars filed in, prisoners who felt they were better off inside, claimed aptitudes for carpentry […]
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Four poems by Dan O’Brien
Image © Cambridge Jones Below are four prose poems by Dan O’Brien from his new collection, Survivor’s Notebook, which chronicles the family life of two cancer survivors. The collection is […]
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‘Murky Waters’: a poem by Stephen Grace
Image by Broadreach from Pixabay Murky Waters On a field by a lake in Manitoba a woman presses her hand to the wind. She is learning to read […]
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Cosmo Davenport-Hines Prize 2023 joint winner: Bianca Denise Layog
Bianca Denise Layog Colour Study I live next to a lake for four years. In this way I am unlike my mother. Even now, my dreams are foreign […]
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Cosmo Davenport-Hines Prize 2023 joint winner: Laura Dent
Laura Dent My forest bed where green comes in swathes and leaves sway with calm susurrus at home among the gaps that I walk through trees extending […]
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Cosmo Davenport-Hines Prize 2023 joint winner: Thomas Storey
Thomas Storey Muggy She hailed a taxi like throwing a coin like casting a spell like floating over and above the damp street like expelling some irretrievable thing […]
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Cosmo Davenport-Hines Prize 2023 runner up: Amalia Costa
Amalia Costa
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Cosmo Davenport-Hines Prize 2023 runner up: Alberta N’guessan
Alberta N’guessan
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On ‘Toys / Tricks / Traps’ by Christopher Reid
Mark Wynne Whilst Christopher Reid has often disguised deeply autobiographical work behind sophisticated role play – the fictional female translator of an Eastern European poet in the extraordinary Katerina Brac […]
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‘A Quidam’: a poem by Steven Toussaint
A Quidam I’d been casualised again, High ChurchAssignations likely the cause. No free lunches.Only fans. I let them watch me researchLatinity in poetry today. My hunch was Quantity callously tugged […]