by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Jun 18, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Prayer Shawl My friend handed me a handmade prayer shawl but the truth was I hadn’t prayed in a very long time. The garment was thickly knitted like something my grandmother would have made. I put it around my shoulders immediately feeling safer...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Jun 17, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
untitled dreaming of donne’s saints and becoming them in a world that urinates money to live is a torture standing on sticks and licking clocks with no time to hold each other’s’ faces planting cacti between our teeth to smile and say yes to doing...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Jun 16, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Into the Furnace Show us your metal, they say as if I was threaded through with a girder of steel, a strut of unbending resolve. Times are difficult, they say: babes without silver spoons, the unalloyed pain of those without jobs, income. It’s a...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Jun 16, 2021 | Reviews
Portrait of Colossus by Samatar Elmi Flipped Eye Publishing, 2021 ISBN: 9781905233618 £4.00 From the first poem of Samatar Elmi’s debut pamphlet, we know that this Colossus is also imagined as an immigrant: ‘fixed in stride across wandering oceans, / a bridge’. It...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Jun 11, 2021 | Word & Image
Kym Deyn is a poet and fortune teller currently studying at Newcastle University. Their work has appeared in magazines and anthologies including Neon and Butcher’s Dog. They are one of the winners of the 2020 Outspoken Prize for...
