A-Z of Poets

A-Z of Poets



A

MADELEINE ACCALIA……..£600 a month
AMY ACRE……..Finding Out You’re Dead by Walking Past Your Grave, Daddy Pig
JUANA ADCOCK……..Sufflation for a Found Harmonium Tuned to ‘Ay No!’
AREMU ADAMS ADEBISI……..By and By
SUNA AFSHAN……..Human Waste
OSHANTI AHMED……..The reduced aisle at Tesco is proof that God loves you
RIZWAN AKHTAR……..The Other Side of Lockdown
FAHAD AL-AMOUDI……..A Silver Child
LILLIAN ALLEN……..2 poems
JASON ALLEN-PAISANT……..Going Still
ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU……..Structuralism
RAYMOND ANTROBUS……..1 poem
MANDISA APENA……..i dream of my ancestors…
MONA ARSHI……..3 poems
JOHN ASHBERY……..Parallel Movement of the Hands (1)
BEBE ASHLEY……..Give Me a Lifetime of Promises
TIFFANY ATKINSON……..Running poem
DEAN ATTA……..Fragments of Faye #3
GABRIELLA ATTEMS……..Kerry
GEORGE AYRES……..Default Mode Network #1

B

ROWLAND BAGNALL Landscape III, The Sunlight Falls Partly in a Cup
TOM BAILEY Your death is a red canvas tent
KRYSTELLE BAMFORD Campsite (Grendel’s Mama)
EMILY BLUDWORTH DE BARRIOS Collecting Sticks
LIAM BATES His Echocardiogram Looks Good Now
LIZ BERRY Boys
LILY BLACKSELL Long walks in the dark and…
NÓRA BLASCSÓK bpm
EMILY BLEWITT Mando
LEO BOIX Doppelgänger
NATALIE LINH BOLDERSTON Lục Bát for Tết
HELEN BOWELL Lobster
PENNY BOXALL Life Coach
JO BRATTEN I am so hopeless for the kiss of a
IAIN BRITTON this portrayal is all about people
DEAN BROWNE The Pineapple Massage
COLETTE BRYCE A Final Day on Earth
VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY [white] noise
JO BURNS from The Conversation
LEWIS BUXTON from Boys in Various Places
KATIE BYFORD from Index Patient

C

TROY CABIDA On my first visit to Gay’s The Word
FINTAN CALPIN Desktop husbandry almanac
KIMBERLY CAMPANELLO from MOTHERBABYHOME
NANCY CAMPBELL Sleepers
CHAD CAMPBELL The Invention of Glass
MARY JEAN CHAN Ars Poetica
JOS CHARLES Two Sonnets
CHEN CHEN Year’s End
TICE CIN Did you get taken to the park?
JENNA CLAKE How much longer until I get this out?
MARY ANNE CLARK St.
GERALDINE CLARKSON Once you have been a nun…
CONOR CLEARY Tolkien denounces my pantry
MARTHA COLLINS Coloring In
KATHERINE COLLINS A poem for Ben about snow
COURTNEY CONRAD Babylon Wah Tun Us Inna Rasta Mouse
EMILY S COOPER From The Conversation
ROWENA COOPER This love
HANNAH COPLEY Denim
SIMON COSTELLO Taxidermy Ethics for Beginners
TIM CRAVEN The Year of Mania
ELLA CUNNINGHAM I never met my grandmother

D

FRED D’AGUIAR Walking, Talking Blue
JENNY DANES Pop-Tarts and Cunts
RISHI DASTIDAR Poutine on a hockey stick
JAYDN DEWALD Church
SUPRIYA KAUR DHALIWAL Annie and Norah Drinking Coffee…
SUSANNAH DICKEY a story of three Claudias
DAPHNE DIFAZIO Against Horsexe: An Essay on Transsexuality
OLIVIA DOUGLASS Efe is my other name / my father’s tongue…
CAL DOYLE A Lyric Poem
CAI DRAPER Portrait from Memory
JANE DRAYCOTT Mika However
ELLA DUFFY All this blue
SASHA DUGDALE Hedgecutter
GEORGE DUGGAN Love is not cake

E

PHOEBE ECCLES Territory
INUA ELLAMS Summit of Flight /
EVE ESFANDIARI-DENNEY From the sunny hospital room, ~ This Is Medium World 7 ~
SUZANNAH V. EVANS A Cicada Sings, an Ant Brings
SUZANNAH EVANS How We Miss Them, Doomsday Preppers
MARTINA EVANS Fourteenth Hearing at the Royal…

F

CALEB FEMI Send Off For Old Major
OAKLEY FLANAGAN Apparently Personal
SARAH FLETCHER Words Relayed in a Café in Action in 2017
JESSICA FOLEY Transgression in Ireland
LIVIA FRANCHINI What I am Trying to Tell You
ELLA FREARS Midpoint
ALICE FRECKNALL At 3am I read manuals for flat pack

G

YANITA GEORGIEVA Posh Salad
EVA GERRETSEN Four – nil
DARCY MAY GILLHAM if your body is an abandoned train
MINA GORJI hedge song
STEPH GORMAN Ambiguous Interiors I
REBECCA GOSS Pheasant in Rear-view Mirror
FEE GRIFFIN Following Advice to be Myself at a Party [with subtitles]
GABRIELLE GRIOT Attachment Theory
VONA GROARKE 4 poems

H

KATIE HALE My Mother Visits Neodsha
NIAMH HARAN today is thinking of nobody
EMILY HARRISON And
KALEEM HAWA The Bengal
MARYAM HESSAVI Swimming
SEÁN HEWITT 3 poems
BOB HICOK Welcome
ALICE HILLER je suis son petit chat…
ELLEN HINSEY 3 poems
HANNAH HODGSON Co-Morbidity isn’t Death
NICHOLAS HOGG Butlins
WAYNE HOLLOWAY-SMITH from Love Minus Love
DANE HOLT Lord Brunswick
LUCY HOLT This is Literally Fine
STEFF HUMM We knew it was dead before we
REBECCA HURST Two Lovers
NASSER HUSSAIN avirus
AMAAN HYDER ancestry

I

OLI ISAAC wrestling

J

FREYA JACKSON Half-life
AMINA JAMA 3 poems
EMMA JEREMY Reveal
TESS JOLLY The Gate
EVAN JONES from The Journal of Anna…
JOSHUA JUDSON Interior Design

K

PETERO KALULÉ Drum need luv
ILYA KAMINSKY In a Time of Peace
BHANU KAPIL ENTRE-BAN: a triptych
GREGORY KEARNS The Weighing
LISA KELLY Darling,, Call an airborne loved one
LUKE KENNARD New Insight into how…
VICTORIA KENNEFICK Family Planning
SEAN WAI KEUNG where is the tree my 公公 drew
SAFIA KHAN On Placement
CASEY KILLINGSWORTH Bad luck comes in threes
SAFIYA KAMARIA KINSHASA I Tied My Teeth to My Feet & Ate My Own Testament
CECILIA KNAPP Chicken, tonight
CECILIA KNAPP I Used to Eat KFC Zingers Without Hating Myself
CHARLOTTE KNIGHT everything not saved will be lost
KARL KNIGHTS My Nurses
NEETHA KUNARATNAM Private
THEOPHILUS KWEK Commonwealth

L

SARAH LASOYE Josh
DOMINIC LEONARD Ape of Form 
SHARA LESSLEY The Path
SHARA LESSLEY In Jordan’s Northernmost…
RACHEL LEWIS On becoming Irish after Brexit
MUKAHANG LIMBU Poetry is useless
DAVID ROSS LINKLATER Acquiring Delicate Freedoms
JAZMINE LINKLATER Thought Forms
HANNAH LOWE The Empire
LISA LUXX i was sleeping while she was letting him inside
KAT LYONS self-examination
ROWAN LYSTER Try to focus on breathing

M

ALEX MACDONALD The Convenient Rip
TIM MACGABHANN Domus
NIALL MACHIN Granny on the stairs
HOLLY MAGILL flipside
MAITREYABANDHU from The Commonplace Book
CIA MANGAT 1996
BILLIE MANNING 6 July 2009
ARJI MANUELPILLAI nominated for a BAME prize, A cigarette tastes better…
D.S. MARRIOTT Another Burning
JOHN MCAULIFFE Growth
MÍCHEÁL MCCAN Haircut with Beard Trimmer
PAUL MCCARRICK All of Them
SHANE MCCRAE In the House from Which I Was Kidnapped
JOHN MCCULLOUGH Dance of the Locust
ELIZABETH MCINTOSH Sharing space after long distance
SASHA DEBEVEC MCKENNEY I DON’T WANT TO FALL IN LOVE…
JACOB MCKIBBIN The Subcontractors
ZARA MEADOWS Another morning
KATHERINE MEEHAN The Wedding
MELISSANTHI From Return of the Prodigal
KIM MOORE Working
JENNY MORONEY Went To See The Sea
SEAN MORRISSEY Over Baltimore Harbor
SINÉAD MORRISSEY House Rules
JULIE MORRISSY Regulation of…
HELEN MORT Condition
JESS MURRAIN The Dressing Gown

N

ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY The Other Side of Nowhere
ABBIE NEALE We saw all of it
CANDICE NEMBHARD Mother of the Disinherited
REHEMA NJAMBI A Lending, Not a Giving
MAYA NORDINE The Secret Life of People Who Care
RYAN NORMAN Human Light

O

RICHARD O’BRIEN Theoretical Biology
OLLIE O’NEILL I’m Pretty Busy
KATIE O’PRAY on the other side of an airlock
GBOYEGA ODUBANJO Man Holds a Stack of Cash…
LAURIE OGDEN Someone’s father, someone’s brother…
LAURIE OGDEN The Birds
ERNEST O. ÒGÚNYẸMÍ Broken
OLUWASEUN OLAYIWOLA Invisible Speaker – Are you surprised
ROMEO ORIOGUN Asilah
NELL OSBORNE I’ve nowhere better to be, Officer
HIBAQ OSMAN Kalt
KAOZARA OKIKIOLA OYALOWO 1. Tomorrow
MAYOWA OYEWALE Fuck / Conrad

P

BOBBY PARKER Spooky Jeans
SANDEEP PARMAR from Faust
NORMAN ERIKSON PASARIBU For Adi
JAMES PATTERSON London OST
ELEANOR PENNY Ant Poison
NATALIE PERMAN case study the sound of a piano…
PASCALE PETIT Walking Fire
CARL PHILLIPS Rough Surf in Moonlight
STAV POLEG Rain
MAYA C. POPA Plato at Sixteen, American Faith, They Are Building a Hospital

R

ANDREW RAHAL Autumn in Belfast
TALIA RANDALL in my mayonnaise half-life
BEN RAY The Discovery
YVONNE REDDICK Mountain Hare
PADRAIG REGAN Poem for my Chest
NINA RELJIĆ inside reverse fold
JAKE REYNOLDS Drink the Drink
MARK RUSSELL Anniversaries

S

LENNI SANDERS First Lessons
TRISTRAM FANE SAUNDERS Jaws 8
SAM SAX Epithalamium
ANKITA SAXENA Ghazal to my Other Tongues
LAURA SCOTT These Days, Restaurant Window
OLIVER SEDANO-JONES A List of Fantastical Objects
SREE SEN Pfeilstörche
STEPHEN SEXTON The Impossible
NATALIE SHAPERO You Can’t Go There
AZAD ASHIM SHARMA from Against the Frame
MARCUS SLEASE TODA PICA
MARIA SLEDMERE Graphite
MATT L. T. SMITH A Liminal Space, a Forest
YOMI ṢODE My Childhood Tastes Like
LAURA STANLEY Defeather
ALEXANDRA STRNAD Chimera
PHOEBE STUCKES From Platinum Blonde
ELLORA SUTTON Dream Interpretation
GEORGE SZIRTES Four Groteaques for Robert Graves

T

DAISY THOMAS No dog don’t wag your tail at me…
COLM TÓIBÍN Gellert Baths, Spring 1990
HELEN TOOKEY Under the Lightship
JENNIFER LEE TSAI 3 poems
CHRIS TSE I am everyone’s gay BFF…
CAT TURHAN the odeon on the holloway road

U

OTHUKE UMUKORO the other art of de(c)oding
LYDIA UNSWORTH Plastic Dinosaur

W

CALLAN WALDRON-HALL Perfect Handstands
CHRISTINE ROSEETA WALKER The Crab-Catchers
KANDACE SIOBHAN WALKER Cowboy
SAMANTHA WALTON four apocalypse sonnets
MAGGIE WANG after the flood
KAT PAYNE WARE Sonnet With(out) Cocaine
STEPHANIE WARNER Spooky Action at a Distance
REBECCA WATTS Should Anyone Be Left Alive, Annie, with Starlings
JULIA WEBB what hides inside war
PETRA WHITE Journal in October
NATALIE WHITTAKER I watch Jurassic Park RUSHIKA WICK
I Have all the Agnes Varda Films…
MILENA WILLIAMSON Gulf
ANTOSH WOJCIK Skiing

X

JINHAO XIE I wake up & see a girl in the mirror

Y

LEUNG RACHEL KA YIN a ceramic loss
JAY G YING Visible Waves

Z

MEMOONA ZAHID Harrods
ANNINA ZHENG-HARDY Elucidation
SIDRAH ZUBAIR i’m with child