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THE 1970S | LITRO LAB PODCAST
This piece takes us back to a hopeful past that managed to break some damaging cycles.
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Iceland Poppies | Litro Lab Podcast
Vanessa Bell,Virginia Woolf’s sister, gets a voice of her own to muse on flowers, loss, and the rendering of life on a canvas.
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Book Review: Postcolonoial Love Poems by Nathalie Diaz
Diaz’s poems display mesmerising images that celebrate the personal and global resilience of marginalised populations who resist and exist by cutting out a space for themselves in an occupied land; ...
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The Husband | Litro Lab Podcast
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 ...
The Monument | Litro Lab Podcast
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 ...
Orbed| Litro Lab Podcast
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 ...
Book Review: London Undercurrents, by Joolz Sparkes and Hilaire
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 ...
Digital Subscription, Litro #173: Comedy, Print Issues
Idea For A Poetry Show
Poetry emerges; authorial identity becomes confused, drifts.
About ...
Poetry Review: Meat Songs by Jack Nicholls and Pisanki by Zosia Kuczyńska
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 ...
The Epic Poetry of B-Movies: A Review of Aaron Poochigian’s Mr. Either/Or
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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Book Review: Kumukanda, by Kayo Chingonyi
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 ...
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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The Irreducible Materiality of Words: January by Nathan Brown
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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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 ...
With Vincent, Joseph Fasano Offers 80 Pages of Exquisite Evil
“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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Poetry/Politics? Political Poetry? Continuing the Debate
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 ...