Wild Court

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

Scott Elder

  • Two poems by Scott Elder

    Two poems by Scott Elder

            The Elegance of a Simple Soul   Utterly out of place a sloth in a dark café movements too slow to be noticed a glass of port slips from her grip the pristine explosion at her feet in her hair in the lamplight everywhere inlaid an instant dissolves and in the next…

  • ‘Notes from Sarajevo’: a poem by Scott Elder

    ‘Notes from Sarajevo’: a poem by Scott Elder

             Notes From Sarajevo   …a bullet in flight bears no sound   The city’s empty but for wind varying shades of darkness a woman kneeling under a briar from here she seems to be hiding if the shrub had a voice it would sing for water she’s found a crook in its…