by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Aug 22, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Zip Wire to Freedom (after Simon Armitage) I write in praise of air. It was just me clothed in a translucent glide, dressed as a thunderbolt, blurry-eyed holding the sky in my hair. To the top in shocking daylight, then helped to lie face down. I...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Aug 19, 2021 | Video
In the Queue in the Waitrose Cafe, I Meet My Love The man next to me in the queue is gorgeous.
It starts with him telling me I’ve dropped my pen and I pick it up, though it’s not mine. I’m almost sure he knew that anyway so we talk about...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Aug 11, 2021 | Reviews
This Kilt of Many Colours by David Bleiman Dempsey & Windle ISBN: 9781913329457 This collection of 24 poems is a celebration of multiple identity. It’s also funny, moving, mocking, sad and slightly wild. Why the title? David Bleiman lives in Scotland but...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Aug 6, 2021 | Word & Image
The Watermelon Universe* I love these Gypsy schoolchildren, hands uniformly clasped, lost in camouflaged pieces of planet scatter. Their shadows are as long as countries. Children curious about the whole world stand on the maps, try to...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Aug 4, 2021 | Video
We’re very grateful to be able to re publish ‘Swells’, a project in which artists have responded to the pressures on their craft in the middle of lockdown. In the words of the project: After a year of profound creative challenges,...
