LATEST IN POETRY
‘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.
Poem with Tiramisu, Sibling Past Thirty-Eight by Jon Riccio
We eat at Olive Garden after learning if our father / had stronger kidneys a portion of his intestines
Poet Trying On A Western by Leslie Grollman
Leslie’s asking the important question: why not…?
This Body by Lebo Disele
In this poem, Lebo explores the concept of occupying space.
MORE POETRY
Heavenly Bodies by Kendra Ferguson
imagine me / as a landscape / without flight / i’d be drinking my own koolaid
She’s Against Thieving by L. Kiew
Through bamboo slats, the sun / bakes stripes on concrete. Next door / fruit bats sleep uneasily in the eaves.
Go Ghosts by John Widdop
Loneliness lies screaming in his mother’s arms and / this is Łódź in the morning. / The city yawns and cracks her jaw
Like a Broken Cartoon by Jessica Pollard
Like a broken cartoon, / luscious bones the muscle queen / and the factory of my eyes / makes a gladness.
On Midway Island by Jessica Pollard
the birds snort plastic instead of coke / and collapse on the beach like Tiny Tim when / he tried to become a ukulele