by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 5, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
fresher At the freshers week party bodies pack sweaty into free-floating balloons. A chorus of down it from thirst you almost know. You unwillingly gulp the cold. Mum worked Saturdays to afford you here. Puke crawls up the back of your throat. Swallow...
by Kate Birch | Jun 4, 2022 | Word & Image
Forgotten journey of the enslaved Tasia Graham © Reclamations by Momtaza Mehri No longer child No longer Monday’s firstborn No longer carrying the day’s exultations No longer embraced by broad-leaved belt of forest No longer at the lush edge of the edge...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 4, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Obit. (After César Vallejo) i will die in london in the neighbourhood i grew up in outside the town hall on the high street. i will have been stabbed and my killer will look just like me so no-one will look for him. my body will remain dead in daylight...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 3, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The Queen is a Bloodclart the queen is a Bloodclart dissect the monarchy, pull it apart, reveal the truth that they wish they could conceal; raping, pillaging, stealing, imperialism, colonialism, racism. they protect those with the same face as...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 2, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Tommy Builds A Cocktail Tommy spied a sun-dried palm tree in an untouched garden with crusty dark skin and cracks riddling all along its side, weeping out of its shell he aimed for a branch and down a coconut fell it didn’t implode on...