LATEST IN POETRY
Many Mothers by Nicole Dawn Haywood
‘Many Mothers’ bears witness to intergenerational cycles of family trauma and resilience.
Since Records Began by Beth Booth
Thinking far too much about everything.
Transformation Battles by A. W. Earl
Transformation Battles is a poem about identity.
‘No Likey, No Lighty!’ by Dean Atta
Sleep gets interrupted when celebrities crash into a Glasgow bedroom in ‘No Likey, No Lighty!’
Shetland by Peter Scalpello
at the tideline the surfacing sun / overwhelms the horizon / like an ingrown hair and a fish
the drams we drank at dawn by Ashley Douglas
‘the drams we drank at dawn’ is a Scots love poem.
pirouetting through the farmers’ market by Sameeya Maqbool
Sameeya’s poem explores her experience of cultural hybridity as a British Pakistani woman of Islamic faith.
Letter to London by Dean Atta
Dean’s ‘Letter to London’ is a poem about being a Londoner in Glasgow.
our annual guest by Sameeya Maqbool
Sameeya’s poetry explores her experience of cultural hybridity as a British Pakistani woman of Islamic faith.
MORE POETRY
Birthday* by Erin Vance
You said that thirty was the new / twenty / just like love was the new / war. / I failed to see the difference before.
Patron Saint of My New World Order by Kendra Ferguson
talking with my historian is / throwing up at the art museum / descending a staircase nude / emerging from a well
Never Speak to Me of Things Without Soul by Flaminia Colella
Never speak to me / of things without soul / they don’t do it for me / or for you.
With Nothing On by Flaminia Colella
A day will come / in which you will / ask me why I love you. / I will answer / with the only image of you I know
You Resist by Flaminia Colella
You resist. / I hear it still / your heart / sobbing down / muted streets / in search of / an escape route.