
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.
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.
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.
Read this striking poem by Vasiliki Albedo, after one of van Gogh’s seminal artworks.
Read two lyrical, bilingual poems from Reem Abbas that interrogate silence and sound; family and home.
Watch the Trinidadian poet and essayist read her haunting poem ‘Canefield’, first published in Wasafiri 110: Afterlives of Indenture.
Read Shereen Leanne’s expansive, vivid poem ‘almost-shahrazad’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
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.
Read Jordan Hamel’s poem ‘If you read this backwards blood becomes wine’, shortlisted for the 2021 New Writing Prize.
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.