Wild Court

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

Sarah Fletcher

  • In Defence of Inspiration

    In Defence of Inspiration

    Photo by Rohan Makhecha on Unsplash     Sarah Fletcher   I want to start with an anecdote: I was at the pub after a poetry reading in London. I found myself in conversation with two very different species of poet: a young whippersnapper straight from the Oxford colleges, and a seasoned editor. The whippersnapper…

  • Two poems by Sarah Fletcher

    Two poems by Sarah Fletcher

            The shouts   Somewhere, of course, someone is dancing. No, no; not us. Door handles bark and women seem Like babies. Moon. We hopscotch through Prognosticating streetlights, light in their pockets, Drunk and sad. The shouts Prism into snakes of light and snakes On snakes and light again: one day I’ll kiss…