by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 27, 2024 | News, Reviews
‘What’s real is us’ ‘Can any amount of words stop a thing from happening?’ A (white American) poet asks, positioning his words in opposition to his government’s war on Vietnam. Linton Kwesi Johnson (the dub poet and British Black Panther) when asked if...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 27, 2024 | Word & Image
to return I want to be able to write poems that flow free that don’t need to mean anything to you or to me if I were to return to read them I want to return to write poems of personal follies, fleeting loves, my own little flaws to erase but I’m afraid...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 26, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Club Hydra Vasiliki Albedo’s poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Oxford Poetry, The London Magazine, Poetry Wales, Magma, The Rialto, and elsewhere. She won the 2023 Hammond House International Literary Prize and the Poetry...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Sue Burge’s two poetry collections are: In the Kingdom of Shadows and Confetti Dancers (Live Canon). Lumière and The Saltwater Diaries, both pamphlets, are published by Hedgehog Poetry Press. Her third collection, The Artificial Parisienne, is...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 24, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Daphne (It is predicted that by 2050 there will be at least one green autotropic person on Earth) She came with a label tied to her toe: “Daphne”. An ordinary cadaver, but young, too young for an early death – her beauty subdued – yet it made us gasp, her flared hips,...
