by Danielle | Jul 26, 2022 | Young Poets
Swapsies Your favourite jumper is draped, Languishing on the back of my chair The tattered sleeves unmoving, Its snot stains ever-present And the colour clashing As always With your imagined outfit. The window looks on, Sheets of sunlight In heavy layers over the...
by Danielle | Jul 26, 2022 | Young Poets
Esplanade I saw a man on the edge of the sea one black morning. No sand, just stones, and me on the Esplanade. He paused at the lap of the waves and surveyed. Where I stood on the grey I could tell his upset Too far from his wife who rose and fell further out....
by Danielle | Jul 24, 2022 | Guest Poems
Sea-Roads I have come to talk to you Because the days draw in And because I can hear the sea – The distant, long sigh of it. I hear the gull-cry. But mostly, I hear the sea. And, farthest of all, the thunder The ominous deep dirge of it: A shape on the mind’s horizon,...
by Danielle | Jul 18, 2022 | Guest Poems
In Churchill’s The boy in the fish and chip shop once felt sad enough to slice the soft white skin on the inside of his wrist. He has a thick scar shining wide and purple like a fat worm sliding up his sleeve. You’ll see a flash of it as he deftly shovels and shakes...
by Danielle | Jul 12, 2022 | News
The Poetry Translation Centre (UK) and Book Buzz Foundation (Nigeria) have announced a new international development programme for young Nigerian and Nigerian-heritage poets in Lagos and London. The programme will launch with an international poetry competition to...
