by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Jun 30, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Love Poem to June After Paul Monette if every window filled with light it would refract ten thousand rainbows at least twelve would hit you and if i say you are beautiful in this light you would say this is your light the only one you want to be...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Jun 29, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Aisha Odette is a poet in her twenties from Lancashire. When not working her busy job in healthcare, she can be found writing letters to long-distance friends, and reading by the sea. Aisha Odette is her nom de plume. She can be found on instagram...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Jun 28, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Beth Davies’ debut pamphlet, The Pretence of Understanding, was published by The Poetry Business in 2023 after winning the 2022 New Poets Prize. Beth also won second place in the 2022 Magdalena Young Poets’ Prize. Her website...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Jun 27, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
How to Love the Word “Lesbian” We took the bus in tutus & fairy wings, gripped on to the cowboy hat trying to fly from your curls in July’s breeze. In Trafalgar Square, floats of rainbow companies waltzed by & we rolled our eyes,...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Jun 26, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Conversation It’s been quite a while now and… You know we get on like a house… August twelfth, a year ago, can you… I bet you thank your lucky… Things have evolved, haven’t… Can you believe we’re both still… You know how in Prague when… Did...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Jun 24, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Agnosthesia for MH She gives me a word to look up in a dictionary of obscure sorrows. I, who try to decipher echoes from other people’s reaction to my words throw down a bucket into the well recognise water when people tell me how sad––how...
