Poet of the Month: Kadija Sesay
“Britain is a small island, and (it thinks) it can only handle one successful Black artist at a time…” Continuing our Poet of the Month series, Kadija Sesay talks to Jacob Silkstone.
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A Critical Analysis of Misbegotten Love
“F transmits unbound electrons with her eyelids, playful,/ to the tune of the attraction of opposites…”
Weekend poem, by Elosham Vog.
In the Unlikely Event of the Apocalypse
“The world is ending// & we have been here before.”
Poem of the Week (June 29), by Natalie Wee.
24.6.16
“No red kites over the field this morning… No haunt. No song. Only the heaven’s blue/ Graceless fire…” Weekend poem, by Theophilus Kwek.
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Inspection
“I did not have much to do/ with god// So I believed my friends, and biked through traffic jams and rain,/ to find a Shiv Mandir, near Rangirkhari market…”
Poem of the Week (June 22), by Goirick Brahmachari.
Poet of the Month: Theophilus Kwek
“Form appeals to me as an open-ended conversation with the history of language…” Our Poet of the Month series returns with a conversation between Afshan Shafi and Theophilus Kwek.
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Saboteur showcase 2016
Showcasing the best work from the 2016 Saboteur Awards.
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We’ve Got Each Other and That’s a Lot
“Experience has taught us that the middling people are more desperate. They are more likely to believe my Mammy on the telephone and then later, at their front door in a dirty t-shirt. They are easier to destroy than the very rich.” By Jan Carson.
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Curlew
“I couldn’t go home. I knew I’d done something wrong – I felt guilty and scared. I stroked the grey grass, pulled out a strand and ran the seed head between my finger and thumbs. The shower of seeds billowed out then blew back onto my navy coat…” By Chrissie Gittins.
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Beautiful Existence
“Time compresses. Time expands. Time stops being time. Everything feels bloated and make-believe.
But it ends. It does end. It ends with the birds…”
By Lara Williams.