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New poems by John Greening
To mark the publication day of his Vapour Trails: Reviews and Essays on Poetry (Shoestring Press), Wild Court is featuring four new poems by John Greening. The first three […]
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‘Mephitine’: a poem by Sarah Doyle
Mephitine You will know me before you see me, will sense me from twenty paces. I am all sour milk top-notes, that pissy catch in […]
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Two poems by Jennifer Lee Tsai
I remember you were the first man who taught me about death. I was five years old; we were walking across the fields to my school. […]
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‘No right or wrong, only how I got here’: The Early Poetry of Richie McCaffery
Photo image: © Gerry Cambridge Jonathan Davidson In his second pamphlet, Ballast Flint (Small Press Publishing for Cromarty Arts Trust, 2013, with artwork by Hannah Fry), and […]
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Two translations by James Owens
The Death of Dido —Aeneid IV, 692-705 She searched the sky for light, and moaned to find it. Then mighty Juno, for pity on long […]
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Two poems by Oliver Comins
Golf Behind Trees An elegant course is exposed by newly opened air. There used to be a thick hedge, armed with trees. We would hear the […]
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On ‘Belladonna’ by Suna Afshan
Daniel Bennett Both grounded and detached, playing with a sense of narrative but also revelling in the rarefied brightness of the image, Suna Afshan’s debut chapbook Belladonna, […]
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‘On the margin’ – a poem by Stephen Miller
On the margin On the margin of existence on the deep-sea floor between chimneys of boiling water and venting carbon where no life should sensibly occur […]
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Three poems by Hannah Lowe
image © Dirk Skiba Sonnet for the British-Born And suddenly, new language: ‘British-Born’, for kids who grew up on terraces in Leeds or tower blocks in […]
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‘Arachnid: Flight After Deluge’ – a poem by Naima Rashid
Arachnid: Flight After Deluge The waters have risen; the signal has sounded in our skeletons of minimal composition. An instinct of age-old urgency has stirred our […]
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‘In an Orchard’ – a poem by William Wootten
In an Orchard Shall we drink a while and think of Eden, As in an orchard filled with waspy windfalls Children shout and run? Late summer […]
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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 of an Elder Mojave woman […]
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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) as the epigraph to her […]
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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 lift and a shipwright’s hoolie […]
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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 sidewalk holding everything to do […]
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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 met you at the supermarket […]
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KCL student poets: Pietro Bordi, Sagal Farah, Nikita Biswal
Pietro Bordi Morning Sailing Dawn comes, casts a light, disappears in overcast. On your hand I count the seconds it reveals itself. We climbed for this: […]
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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. No 9:44, not Euston, but […]
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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 hooks; I try to negotiate […]
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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 dusted off and propped up […]