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Two Poems
Akwaeke Emezi
‘joseph uncle is ghost-quiet / the kind of man you can’t scream at’
Two poems by the author of Dear Senthuran.
Blue Room, Fake Blue Veins
Peter Scalpello
‘[left home rented a room / spinning with mould] it almost turned me / straight.’ A new poem by Peter Scalpello.
Beautiful Short Loser
Ocean Vuong
‘For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’
A new poem by Ocean Vuong.
Lecture on Loneliness
Claire Schwartz
‘Only history makes her lonely, only after makes her first.’
A poem by Claire Schwartz.
Two Poems
Emily Berry
‘I do not see / the slow wheels in my blood turning, but / I ride them’
Two poems by Emily Berry.
The Yearner
Rachel Long
‘I stacked three pillows, made sure / my head was heavy with bills, wine’.
A poem by Rachel Long.
what if mary auntie called me on my birthday
Akwaeke Emezi
‘i buy my own selling / spiels, i mean them all, i am so bored’
The Starlings of Dunmore Died on the Eleventh of July
Dawn Watson
‘Black was thrown / in all directions.’
Two Poems
Yanyi
‘A hotel being where we buy the right to stay still when no place will stay for us.’
Two poems by Yanyi.
