Tag: poetry

Spring has been extolled in poetry perhaps more than any other season. Since antiquity, poets have associated spring with growth and celebration making their poems are a joy to read this time of year.

Faeries, elves, centaurs, wizards, dragons. In its purest form, fantasy is one of the most ancient literary genres, and fantastical elements can be found...

There’s only one Catherine Cohen. It’s something you realise about five minutes into watching her perform — she’s just burped. “I’m sorry,” she says nonchalantly,...

'Ramadan is a highlight of the Islamic calendar and involves a month of self-reflection and improvement as well as abstinence from food and water. Gaining knowledge is hugely celebrated within Islam, and with more time on my hands not eating or drinking, this spiritual month is the perfect opportunity to learn something new.'

'I hear you loudly in your echo chamber: ‘We’re in the most tolerant land of them all’ But the least racist is still racist.'

Joining this zoom call, Luke is sat in his childhood bedroom with a bookcase overflowing in the background. Luke immediately starts chatting and smiling,...

Art personalises and humanises the cold calculated figures, gives a face and a story to the numbers we are so used to seeing.

'Everything I told you Came out untrue'

"Above me, the Milky wheel turns round and round"

'a few more days of worrying about weddings, wondering why we seem to copy the lives of those we wish would love us'

"The memory is hazy, the photographic still of the memory I keep in my head, more so."

'You're in all the details, taking up the small spaces/You're filling in the gaps between words in this poem.'

'something in the bagging area/I looked down, and it was me, crouched there'

"how we feel now must be the way that stars feel all their lives"