
almost-shahrazad by Shereen Leanne
Read Shereen Leanne’s expansive, vivid poem ‘almost-shahrazad’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
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.
In celebration of Ramadan, read and listen to Sanah Ahsan’s evocative and rhythmic poem ‘ramadan’s greeting’.
Read Asmaa Jama’s haunting poem ‘autopsy’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
A reading from Andrés N Ordorica of his poem ‘In the Name of the Joto, Mariposa, y Maricòn — a prayer in praise of queer Latinx identity.
Two short, complex, and evocative poems from Aotearoa New Zealand poet Alison Glenny, author of Bird Collector.
Read poet and editor Naush Sabah’s evocative and dreamy ‘Litany of the Shoreline’, first published in her debut pamphlet Litanies (Guillemot, 2021).