by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 27, 2026 | Featured
Extracted Poems “never again” bloodshed will teach a lesson nobody will learn * the protocol little need be said about the mourning the keening of mothers the grief of fathers the silence of children their names will wrap the branches...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 26, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Wight Sirens Sing silver times, shimmering columns of light on the wine-dark, temple to moon-eyed Hecate, the insatiable. Sing treachery, dizzy with stars, sudden squalls, sting of our stink, pianissimo of sighing, undying, true-to-only-you-oo...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 25, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Seven Sisters Road We rolled out on Seven Sisters Road, two crates of Tyskie empty in my stairwell. We were talking from the chest, walking backwards crackling air above our heads like streetlights beatboxing, spitting Maccies adverts at us sounds...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 24, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Blood and Ash But look here, I turned my head and discovered the Denver Museum waiting, a ghost that stood out in my sight, telling me that their land was spring— grass above flowers. Today, they lay in an Indian exhibition, silent; Their faces...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 23, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Finely balanced He’s a house of cards, a delicately balanced pyramid held together by hearing aids and dusty bifocals and wobbling dentures and ageing pacemaker and shirt with three buttons missing in action and tea-stained cardigan with more...