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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 […]
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KCL student poets: Maleeha Mir, Maria Orlando, Amy Hill
Maleeha Mir Southend on Sea, 2018 It’s hard to believe they’d be happy to sit there on plastic red chairs, ready to be thrown away by […]
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Two poems by Nicola Healey
Six Months Away (After Robert Lowell) Discharged as ‘homeless’, then to a room that felt wilfully hostile (lurid curtains and bristling carpet squares), I was […]
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Three poems by Ammar Aziz
My father believes in Triclavianism Inner parts of a grinder, Dead batteries, bulbs, Steel tub of a washer, A few metal strings, A toaster without the […]
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‘Last’: a poem by Ali Lewis
Last In the religion of my dad one story is that a temple lamp lasts not forever but just a little longer than could reasonably be […]
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‘madonna’: a poem by Charlie Baylis
madonna there’s no art in america, it’s all sugar & war. – sophie robinson i wake up dreaming i’ve made it here in new york […]
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Two poems by Naush Sabah
The Burial And when the pestilence passed through the second time We stood stunned in the wreckage of our lives. I picked Up a shattered picture […]
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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 […]
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Two poems by Mat Riches
Ash He found out I smoked the day I went off to university, and disapproved, of course, but nothing he could do or say. Although, he […]