Theo Grange Study: BA English with Film, Faculty of Arts & Humanities flowers and tealights white dust sheet and a movingvan suddenly takes me from wherei called home. front step of a houseempty coffer where it was and i askmy mum where i’m going she saysits where the heart is. the last trainno return ticket…

Rongshan Sha BA Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy Waterloo Communion My suitcase still breathes of Hangzhou tea leaves,whispers of home steeped in Confucian ghosts,now resting beneath Brutalist concrete spineswhere Pentecostal hymns waltz with Beijing roast. In Lecture Room 1.11, we unmap borders—your Lagos cadence lifts my fractured “others.”We scrawl Fanon in…

Zaynab Richardson BSc Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine tokari banane wala We’re held, guarded, by the bruised arms of the founding pillars –of the bloodline.Surrounded by the calloused hands of our un-named remnants,Giving blessings with no charged fees,My ankles, my parents, growing old in stature and face,their swollen darkened eye-lids tense,but…

Rochelle Ruo Xuan Lee musings from the other end of homesickness —when i get to see my parents again; the whole timei will cheat my way to normal as if home isn’t an oldarchive catalogue peeking errant, sheepish under the deska test of past lives falling victim against each otherhereafter we will be friends who…

Madeleine George Blackbird, Singing This is the chronic night-warand Iam waiting for the morning. The earth shudderedas she spun,sloughing off so many sheetsof ice likethe sheet that caught on your shoulderas you left the bed for the door. I am trying to penmy wantmy longingbefore they etch themselves on my skinbefore they eat me aliveI…

Fintan Calpin We gave you a theory of systems

    Gabriela Sambuccetti MA in Modern Languages, Literature and Culture, Arts & Humanities     A Migrant in a Piece of Paper   A migrant could be someone who bought a plane ticket to London, and talked with customer service and customs at the airport, and filled a pile of papers, and got into…

    Jit Mun MSc Early Intervention in Psychosis, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience         New Year Moon   The luminous New Year moon Ascends in empty moorlands instead of the red and gold splendour of Banquet halls eight hours forward or in the ice-white lights of my grandparents’ home, their table…

          Heilien Diedericks     PhD Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine   Moving the family Through the passenger window, the mountain burns. The Mantis God lives in those flames; her white karos the break between heat and death. Once, She rode the mountain’s back as it…

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    Fintan Calpin                               Hannah Clayton                               Lauren Mappledoram                             Charlie Brittlebank  …