On Not Getting a Caird Research Fellowship… by Naomi Foyle
Read Naomi Foyle’s inventive, affective poem, which utilises the act of cataloguing to challenge the legacy of violence and colonialism in the history of Britain.
Archive: Poetry
They Wanted To Write So I Told Them To Dance by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
Read Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa’s moving and joyous account of teaching writing through dance and movement in Barbados, and her nuanced articulations of culture and identity, plus an exclusive poem.
My mother tells her sister you have your husband and I have my flowers by Vasiliki Albedo
Read this striking poem by Vasiliki Albedo, after one of van Gogh’s seminal artworks.
Two Poems by Reem Abbas
Read two lyrical, bilingual poems from Reem Abbas that interrogate silence and sound; family and home.
A Reading of ‘Canefield’ by Shivanee Ramlochan
Watch the Trinidadian poet and essayist read her haunting poem ‘Canefield’, first published in Wasafiri 110: Afterlives of Indenture.
almost-shahrazad by Shereen Leanne
Read Shereen Leanne’s expansive, vivid poem ‘almost-shahrazad’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Ghost Talker Poem by Dorsía Smith Silva
In this poem, shortlisted for the 2021 Wasafiri Queen Mary New Writing Prize, Dorsía Smith Silva delivers a chilling elegy to childhood and to the missing Black girls who never found.
If you read this backwards blood becomes wine by Jordan Hamel
Read Jordan Hamel’s poem ‘If you read this backwards blood becomes wine’, shortlisted for the 2021 New Writing Prize.
Two Poems from Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe
Read an extract from Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe’s Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted collection, Auguries of a Minor God, accompanied by commentary from the poet.