by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | May 5, 2026 | Filmpoems
Outside A Parisian Café Panya Banjoko is a UK based writer and multi-award-winning poet. Her poetry features in numerous anthologies, and exhibitions. Her debut collection, Some Things, (2018) and follow-up work (Re)Framing the...
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 Sairah Ahsan | Feb 2, 2026 | 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...
