Poetry

You'll Never Recognise Yourself Again — Four Prose-Poems by Oz Hardwick

You'll Never Recognise Yourself Again — Four Prose-Poems by Oz Hardwick

Oz Hardwick presents four prose-poems where a poetic archaeology excavates for meaning in spaces meant for display, where dioramas abound, while a poetic gaze retrieves meaning from objects representing the past in its defunct state. In these poems, one could easily ponder on the museumification of

Radio Kashmira — A Six-Part Poem by Kapil Kachru

Radio Kashmira — A Six-Part Poem by Kapil Kachru

In his six-part poem, Kapil Kachru versifies the experience of someone returning to a motherland from a great distance marked by the passage of greater time. Part by part, the poem progresses through the gaze of a tourist whose vantage point shifts to that of someone seeking a home worn out by an un

A Poem in Which I Mourn a Friend — by Fadairo Tesleem

A Poem in Which I Mourn a Friend — by Fadairo Tesleem

Years after the loss of his friend, Fadairo Tesleem brings us a poem in which the young Nigerian poet mourns such an untimely departure with these poised verses that are watered with grief.

Mother leans against history — Two Poems by Zeeshan Ali

Mother leans against history — Two Poems by Zeeshan Ali

Zeeshan Ali presents two poems that process a history of war, one from the perspective of a "mother's longing for freedom" and another, a two-part prose poem that expands from multiple voices, some discernible, and others not as much. The perspectives and the voices that emerge from both poems can b

Making Sense of the Word: Kashmir — Four Poems by Danyal Hassan

Making Sense of the Word: Kashmir — Four Poems by Danyal Hassan

Danyal Hassan presents four poems that—in trying to make sense of the word ‘Kashmir’—develop a manifesto-in-verse against the nauseating exotica and orientalist framing that Kashmir is subjected to while a history of war, subjugation, and dispossession remains conveniently ignored—and at the expense

Monologue on the Sea — A Poem by Olayioye Paul Bamidele

Monologue on the Sea — A Poem by Olayioye Paul Bamidele

Olayioye Paul Bamidele presents a poem "about the need for black people to unite irrespective of tribe, culture or tradition." According to its poet, the poem's inspiration comes from "the story of slaves being mistreated by their traders, as narrated to me by my father." The young writer and Mass C

Untitled — A Poem by Dustin Pickering

Untitled — A Poem by Dustin Pickering

Dustin Pickering presents a short poem whose "general spirit"—as the poet suggests—"can resonate across different subjects." One of these, in the least, is the irremediable misery of those who do wrong to others.