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 …
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, …
‘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 …
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 …
‘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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …
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 …