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, ...
They divide the Earth with bloody lines
waving cloths with stripes and stars,
full of pride in plastic trophies
they issue laws that kill our souls,
dangling the deadly bait ...
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 ...
January has been teaching me
that hurt can come from even the most comforting spaces.
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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 ...
Do not blame us for filling out
churches, we are praying against the things
the dark attracts.
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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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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 ...
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 ...
Is hell an animated GIF that was hardly funny the first time round.
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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 ...
Tradition, betrayal and pain dance together in this poem.
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What can you buy on a street? A song of surprise.
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A poem/dialogue on possibility and impossibility.
About ...
On fortune, reading, and love of the other.
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Remembering the fallen.
About Dominic ...
A meditation on inequality.
About ...
A future trend turns its back on clothes.
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The difference between augmented reality and virtual reality is a Bengal tiger…
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A real life ends, but is imagined by those left behind…
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