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Tissue
Tishani Doshi
‘Even if you could walk through the corridors / of your body, you would not know which rooms / to enter, which were full of stone.’
Nation
Tishani Doshi
‘Understand friend, the conscience is a delicate broth. / Sometimes it feels good to be bad.’
Species
Tishani Doshi
‘Will it be for them / as it was for us, impossible to imagine oceans where there are now / mountains?’
Click-Wrap
Ida Börjel
‘You know about my / emotional drinking, and my night walks and my / fragmented heart-to-heart conversations.’
Cosmos
Tishani Doshi
‘Remember when we were / young and the end was a black hole at the edge of forever, / a million light years away.’
Vertigo & Ghost
Fiona Benson
Two poems by Fiona Benson, whose Vertigo & Ghost is shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020.
The Orphans
Don Mee Choi
‘One starless night, I was stranded. Needless to say, foreigners are often stranded.’
I, Minotaur
Natalie Diaz
‘There is no such thing as time or June, / only what you’re born into’
A new poem by Natalie Diaz.
