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Editor's Pick, Essay, Poetry, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Edition
A HISTORY OF AFRICAN HAIKU
Adjei Agyei-BAAh discusses how haiku is taking root in Africa.
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Editor's Pick, Poetry, Spring 2021: Japan Edition
TWO POEMS
Two poems by Japanese poet Ryoichi Wago
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Editor's Pick, podcast, Poetry
Product Placement (While You Dream) | Litro Lab Podcast
This week on Litro Lab podcast, we bring an experimental piece that mixes poetry and music. In the era of streaming platforms, many of us rarely watch TV advertising. Yet, ...
breakfic, Digital Subscription, Poetry, Print Issues
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Daily Resurrection
Litro #162: Literary Highlife | Whilst the pastor preached about hell, his son was texting girls
On the left wing of the church,
you would sit in rows with the other boys
dressed like a tidy supermarket shelf of tuna,
listening to the sermon about a ...
Litro #162: Literary Highlife | Spit
January has been teaching me
that hurt can come from even the most comforting spaces.
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Litro #162: Literary Highlife | The Unbelievable
They like talking in the dark.
They are just voices. With the lamp off
his voice is air, warm, passing
over her ear, and the ear is catching ...
Litro #162: Literary Highlife | The Dark Haunts Nigeria
Do not blame us for filling out
churches, we are praying against the things
the dark attracts.
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Litro #162: Literary Highlife | The Sisterhood of Wahala
If you want to know wahala
You can find it always in two places
A tro-tro in Accra
Or a danfo bus in Lagos.
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Review: I Take Nothing Strong, Only Lightning
I Take Nothing Strong, Only Lightning, the first collection of poetry published by Beaconsfield-born Nathan A. Thompson, is an assemblage of ten years of writing (from the age of 21 ...
Litro #156: India: LOST
When I returned home I went into the kitchen and my partner and my ex-father-in law were both looking for it. They’d emptied out the cutlery drawer and the cupboards ...
In hell
Is hell an animated GIF that was hardly funny the first time round.
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Self-Portrait as a Garage Emcee
If I could navigate the fuzz of traffic
reports, dinner table jazz and topical chat
Majik FM! is where, in the stillness between
last bell and the latch announcing mum’s ...
Digital Subscription, Litro #142: Mexico, Poetry
The Crab’s Back
Digital Subscription, Litro #142: Mexico, Poetry
The Street Seller’s Song
Digital Subscription, Litro #142: Mexico, Poetry
Every House Learnt How to Burn
Digital Subscription, Litro #142: Mexico, Poetry
Crab
Litro #139: No Such Luck, Poetry
I Was There
Remembering the fallen.
About Dominic ...
Litro #139: No Such Luck, Poetry
Bonfire Night Beneath the Stars
A meditation on inequality.
About ...
Litro #137: Future Fashions, Poetry
that was joy she said
A future trend turns its back on clothes.
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