On Natalie Diaz’s ‘Postcolonial Love Poem’
Holly Loveday Ultimately, ‘you cannot drink poetry’. Diaz precedes this statement in her self-aware second collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, with the prayer …
The Lustre in Dullness: Philip Larkin, Sinéad Morrissey and Balance
© National Portrait Gallery, London Nicola Healey In Sinéad Morrissey’s collection On Balance (2017), Morrissey selectively quotes from Larkin’s ‘Born Yesterday’ (1954) …
Four poems by Jake Morris-Campbell
The Village that Vanished All the bitter day waves smash into Smugglers’ Cove and Byer’s Hole. The sky has failed to …
KCL student poets: Holly Loveday, Viola Ugolini, Richelle Sushil
Holly Loveday Qikiqtaaluk or, Baffin Island I move beyond the fact of you, but lay atop my suitcase on a 5th avenue …
KCL student poets: Teresa Mignolli & Emily Blundell Owers
Teresa Mignolli Airports and Supermarkets i At airports passengers meet and some fall in love and some fall ill. ii I …
KCL student poets: Pietro Bordi, Farah Sagal, Nikita Biswal
Pietro Bordi Morning Sailing Dawn comes, casts a light, disappears in overcast. On your hand I count the seconds it reveals …
KCL student poets: Claudia Macey-Dare, Lilly Zhuang, Megan Williams
Claudia Macey-Dare The Northern line at 9:52 I wanted you to write to me, while I waited for the 9:30 train. …
KCL student poets: Isobel Lewis-Jarvis & Rabia Kapoor
Isobel Lewis-Jarvis Language is a bowl of eel noodle soup Eyes squint at the menu, sprawled with inky strokes of fish …
KCL student poets: Florence Sandelson, Leyla Hasso, Helen Soulsby
Florence Sandelson Desert Island Once my grandfather was on Desert Island Discs. Your voice came out of the radio dad had …
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 …