Wild Court

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

Nicholas Hogg

  • ‘Undertow’: a poem by Nicholas Hogg

    ‘Undertow’: a poem by Nicholas Hogg

    Undertow Eyes wide in the dark, I listen. A thud upon the hull,drumming, like a cold caller stoic at a bolted door.I lift the hatch and go outside. Bright starsdulled by the galaxy of city. I grab the gaffand spear, jabbing at the dead. Before it surfaced,glowing. The sharp teeth bared in a tight cruel…

  • ‘Ghost and Chrome’: a poem by Nicholas Hogg

    ‘Ghost and Chrome’: a poem by Nicholas Hogg

    Ghost and Chrome I wanted a life like a burning comet, and got an engine fireon the Nullaboor Plain. I was riding at the heart of Australia,the red dirt towns and crocodile creeks, tin roof shacksand termite mounds. But I was doomed to expirein the middle of sand, a motorbike ditchedby the side of a…