Archive: Poetry

Shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.

Read Codex 11, Codex 12 and Codex 13 from Wasafiri‘s Associate Editor and the Founder of Obsidian. 

‘I have never felt so far from the sea,’ writes Nina Mingya Powles, for our ongoing series, Writing Britain Now. Plus, two poems from her Forward-Prize-nominated collection, Magnolia, 木蘭. 

‘When I watched Men In Black years later as an adult, I saw ‘Tiffany’ through that lens and the poem began to grow.’ Inua Ellams introduces his forthcoming collection, The Actual.

A new poem, published and performed as part of the online coverage for our latest issue, Wasafiri 103, featuring a special section on ‘Writing Whiteness’.

If My Darling from the Lions were a music album, ‘it be would be Whitney Houston does a grime inflected album, with special features from Rhianna, Stormzy, Skepta, David Bowie.’ Wasafiri Wonders with Rachel Long.

‘Here, take my brain, each last lobe / one hundred billion empty neurons / firing, its shocks so blunt, my thoughts disrobed’ — a poem by Jennie Owen, contributor to Wasafiri 103.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.