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 …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Two poems by Arundhathi Subramaniam
When Landscape Becomes Woman I was eight when I looked through a keyhole and saw my mother in the drawing room …
‘The Terrific-Strange’: some student poets of 1965
Mark Valentine In 1958 a group of tutors and students at the University of North Staffordshire, Keele, published a booklet anthology entitled …