Icarus
“Theorem:/ we will liken our souls/ to a pair of winged horses.” Weekend poem, by Imogen Cassels.
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Night Errant
“So when the wolf/ rips the night open…/you deny, you deny,/you deny.” Poem of the Week (February 24), by Esther Phillips.
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A Poem I Cannot Write
Flora de Falbe starts our ‘Poets on Poets’ series by reflecting on sexism and censorship in organised religion.
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Double Inundations
“The happy hours pass quickly by, the bitter/ ones pass slowly. Still, they are the same.” Poem of the Week (February 17), by Gábor Schein. Translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.
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Pocketwatch
“A voice asks me for a light/ The face of a woman, it wants to talk/ To me, they like wretched nocturnal faces…” Poem of the Week (February 10), by Arup K Chatterjee.
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Fireflies
“soon it will be dark and hard to find/ the faintest light…/ But the farthest point/ of this barren land seems to sparkle.”
Poem of the Week (February 3), by Afshan Sajjad. Translated from Urdu by Kathrine Sowerby.
Muhammad
“…but that is a poem I cannot write./ that is a cartoon we cannot draw.” Poem of the Week (January 27), by Amna Y. Khan.
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God & Friends
“He will die for you but ignore your texts,/ and change the subject if you mention sex.” Weekend poem, by Flora de Falbe.
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Desire Grows
“deeply/ curious then to travel, be travelled through/carrying possibilities, the wish for many lives…” Poem of the Week (January 20), by Khaled Javaid Jan. Translated from Urdu by Kathrine Sowerby.
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Afrogotten
“too far away for words. some/ broken dreams…” Weekend poem, by Kamau Brathwaite.
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