by Prerana Kumar | Jun 25, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Daffodils Smarmy cunts. Hiding from me, in chattering spheres, year-round spectres of a season delayed. Budding in a darkness unknown – I will remember numbness. A yellow that melts, butter upon frost, their smooth openings jar in the...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 24, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Snowdrops I remember you from my crayon days. Clung about the tree like children to a maypole, you held green secrets close, the magic of the changing seasons folded in your petals. In the months before my mother died I anticipated you with...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 23, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Death’s Head Moth The effect is to produce the most superstitious feelings among the uneducated, by whom it is always regarded with feelings of awe and terror. ‘The Death’s-Head Hawk-Moth’, in Edward Newman’s An Illustrated Natural History of...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 22, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Wulf and Eadwacer’s Daughter Make Meatballs after the Old English poem Jessa Brown, a UEA creative writing MA student, has been an Acumen Young Poet. Her work has been published in the Brixton Review of Books, The Mays, and Young Writers,...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 21, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Our Country Our house was a country my parents founded but none of us were citizens. Nights, the corridor’s iron gate was a border, locking us in our rooms. My mother was both state and warden. I wrapped a hair around my diary before leaving for...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 20, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Joanna Wright lives in the Scottish highlands. Her poems have been published in Northwords Now and Spelt Magazine.
