This week on Litro Lab podcast, we bring you a lyrical piece about a husband who is struggling to understand his wife. With a touch of humour, this story challenges ...
This week on Litro Lab, we bring you a satyrical poem from no other than resuscitated 18th-century poet Wortley Clutterbuck. Monuments were built in the past to commemorate war and ...
This week on Litro Lab, we invite you to close your eyes and immerse yourself in this oneiric flash fiction piece that tells the story of a little boy and ...
Sparkes and Hilaire have divided in two the work of unearthing and voicing by location, with Sparkes taking North and Hilaire the South of London, demarcated by the river that ...
Poetry emerges; authorial identity becomes confused, drifts.
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These poems and prose poems are not simply love letters to loyal companions; instead the reader is presented with Blakeian explorations into perspectives: the points of view of animals, their ...
Meet you. You are the hero of Mr. Either/Or, a story told in second person, which creates the feel of a choose-your-own-adventure novel.
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The beating heart of these poems is music, not least because of the poet’s own cross-genre creative output and a song’s uncanny ability to situate the reader immediately in a ...
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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Tom Lordan on a rich and innovative avant-garde poetry collection – if poetry is the right word – from Berlin-based Broken Dimanche Press.
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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 ...
“I whispered listen / listen today I read in a place / I cannot tell you of the dark matter / in the cargo of things.”
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In Western thought, literature has often been separated from politics. Plato founded this tradition when he famously banished the poet from the city with the resounding words: “Not pleasure and ...
Dylan Brethour tells the tragic tale of the Mandelstams – poet Osip and writer Nadezhda – whose harrowing experience of persecution, exile and betrayal exposed the USSR’s excesses.
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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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