International Contemporary Writing
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.
We are pleased to be opening the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for submissions until 30 June 2023.
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 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.
In this instalment of Wasafiri‘s creative-critical series ‘Meditations’, Fahad Al-Amoudi examines the role of memory and the father in Anthony Joseph’s Sonnets for Albert.
Read Shereen Leanne’s expansive, vivid poem ‘almost-shahrazad’, shortlisted for the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
