Poetry

This archive includes all poetry from our print archive from Litro #80 upwards. Earlier works can be viewed in the PDF versions of our back issues.

Please note that we only publish poetry in our print magazine. However, we do not accept unsolicited submissions. Please do not send your poetry to us—they will not be read.

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Poetry, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: ALL THE NAMES GIVEN

Raymond Antrobus’ latest collection of poetry, All the Names Give, reviewed ...

by Rush • 21st January 202221st January 2022

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. ...

by adjeiagyeibaah • 16th June 202116th June 2021

Editor's Pick, Poetry, Spring 2021: Japan Edition

TWO POEMS

Two poems by Japanese poet Ryoichi Wago ...

by ryoichiwago • 15th June 202115th June 2021

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, ...

by Craig Kurtz • 9th January 20219th January 2021

breakfic, Digital Subscription, Poetry, Print Issues

Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Daily Resurrection

by Alejandro Jodorowsky • 3rd September 20176th December 2018

Poetry

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 ...

by Caleb Femi • 8th May 2017

Poetry

Litro #162: Literary Highlife | Spit

January has been teaching me that hurt can come from even the most comforting spaces. ...

by Poetra Asantewa • 8th May 2017

Poetry

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 ...

by Victoria Adukwei Bulley • 8th May 20178th May 2017

Poetry

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. ...

by Theresa Lola • 8th May 20178th May 2017

Poetry

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. ...

by Jumoke Verissimo • 8th May 2017

Poetry

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 ...

by David Hutt • 12th November 2016

Litro #156: India, Poetry

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 ...

by monaarshi • 4th October 201625th January 2022

Poetry

In hell

Is hell an animated GIF that was hardly funny the first time round. ...

by malte Persson • 5th May 2016

Poetry

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 ...

by Kayo Chingonyi • 9th March 20169th March 2016