
SILVO by Laurie Bolger
Read Laurie Bolger’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.
Read Laurie Bolger’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.
Read Hera Naguib’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.
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.
Read Juleus Ghunta’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.
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.