by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Apr 21, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Pipeline We walk from cane fields, cotton in our nightshirts, sweet sugar on our teeth. My peoples chant strong magic. My peoples beatbox in jail. Roger Robinson won the T.S. Eliot Prize (2019), the RSL Ondaatje Prize (2020), the...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Apr 10, 2026 | Word & Image
C O N T E N T W A R N I N G A N S W E R T H E F O L L O W I N G A S T R U T H F U L L Y A S P O S S I B L E : W H A T I S A R I S K A S S E S S M E N T ? an organized procedure / distinguishing jeopardy / appraising connected dangers within a body /...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Mar 30, 2026 | Filmpoems
The Music That Lives In Me In the aftermath When the dust is settled and silence restored I can still hear your melody and recite each conversation word for word What’s the use in a peace treaty, a zip-lipped truce? I’d rather burn...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Mar 30, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Summoning “Pink is the navy blue of India.” Diana Vreeland The hue of brides, appliquéd dark with henna. Citron’s acid curl, vernal blades between teeth. Beneath a virginal sky, weren’t we confections? Pistachio and rosewater, saffron and...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Mar 29, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
SURREAL SHEEP I sell the postcard of multi-coloured sheep over and over again. “Done on a computer I suppose” says a lady as she hands over forty pence. “Yes, I expect so” I say. I’ve only seen white, black and brown sheep, earth coloured in the...
