SILVO by Laurie Bolger
Read Laurie Bolger’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.
Archive: Poetry
At the Allama Iqbal International Airport by Hera Naguib
Read Hera Naguib’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.
Two Poems by Rakhshan Rizwan
To mark our winter issue, Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education, read two poems from Rakhshan Rizwan’s Europe, Love Me Back, where the poet probes ideas of systemic racism in academia and unbelonging with an unerringly sharp eye for language and imagery.
There Was Never Enough Salt in the Kitchen by Juleus Ghunta
Read Juleus Ghunta’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.
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.
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.