by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 2, 2026 | Featured, Filmpoems
British Columbia, Canada, 2021: We are surviving the vagaries of climate change 1. Heat dome: I’ve had to water my plants two times a day so they don’t die. 2. Five hundred and ninety-five people died as a direct result of extreme heat. 3. Lytton broke...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 27, 2026 | Filmpoems
Brian Johnstone (1950-2021), was one of the founders of Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, StAnza and directed the festival over its first decade. He also founded Shore Poets in Edinburgh. Brian’s work was published around the world, and included four...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 14, 2026 | Featured, Filmpoems
Valentia Light There are storms on the way. Look, look upwind. How we crave light. The southwesterly seethes. It is coming in, the fierce ocean. There is no defence against the rock’s teeth, only light. And the waves, a cross-hatched expanse whose white...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 25, 2025 | Filmpoems, Twelve Days of Christmas
cw: flickering images Melon Moon for Idris, my light One winter I remember he looked up and said: ‘the moon is a melon.’ We’d made a telescope out of used loo roll to look for Father Christmas. The Oak Moon on that longest night hung high over Green Horse...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 21, 2025 | Filmpoems, Twelve Days of Christmas
When it used to snow wild and bottomless dad would take us sledging on the hills behind our house, we’d ride the sleeping-slopes of / round-back / giants, flushed with fever-thrill and when he capsized we / lurched / collided with a crunch. One year we...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 5, 2025 | Filmpoems
ONE DAY One day, one day We will sit on that bench under the lights Overlooking the river which you sweetly think is the sea One day, one day You will drown I will drown One day, one day I will drown you You will drown me In happiness In smiling nuts In...
