Archive: Poetry

Following Caleb Femi’s win at the 2021 Forward Prizes for Poetry, Wasafiri is pleased to share his evocative poem ‘Fisher of Men’, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

Shash Trevett, winner of a Northern Writer’s Award for Poetry and author of From a Borrowed Land, sits down to talk with the five nominees for the Felix Dennis Prize for First Collection: Caleb Femi, alice hiller, Holly Pester, Ralf Webb, and Cynthia Miller.

‘My mother’s dark hair/an un bound river.’  To celebrate the launch of Wasafiri 107, ‘Tending’ is a new poem on the themes of crisis and recovery by Australian poet Eileen Chong.

A new poem by King Llanza, a poet and environmental researcher from the Philippines, to celebrate the launch of Wasafiri 107 on the twinned themes of crisis and recovery.

An extract from a new sequence of poems on colours and their pigments by Forward Prize shortlisted poet alice hiller, to celebrate Wasafiri 106: the Water issue.

A new poem from the forthcoming collection, A God at the Door, by Tishani Doshi, our Poetry judge for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

A new poem by Wasafiri‘s 2021 Writer-in-Residence, Jennifer Wong.

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.