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Category: Poetry

Sad Algorithm and other poems by Angel Dionne

11th December 202211th December 2022  Angel Dionne

In these two compelling poems written using the surrealist automatism method, Angel Dionne creates strange imagistic worlds that quietly move as much as they unsettle.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Angel Dionne, poems, Poetry, Sad Algorithm, Surrealism, Surrealist Automatism, Surrealists, The Fisherman's Response

Two poems by Louise Mather

15th November 202215th November 2022  Louise Mather

In Louise Mather’s short yet sublime poetry, the body is in turns a miracle immaculately conceived and mirrored before its speaker and an open wound, bloody for all to see.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Louise Mather, menstruation, Mental Health, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry

Mourning Yoga by Sevinç Çalhanoğlu

8th November 2022  Sevinç Çalhanoğlu

Grief and the motions of menstruation meet in this cyclical exercising (and exorcising) of loss and longing for an absent mother in Sevinç Çalhanoğlu’s beautiful and poignant poem, ‘Mourning Yoga’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Bodies, body, Mourning Yoga, My Body's Bodies Editorial, poem, Poetry, Sevinç Çalhanoğlu, yoga

Two poems by Laetitia Erskine

5th September 2022  Laetitia Erskine

In ‘S c r a p e of time’ and ‘Womb Dream’, Laetitia Erskine takes a vivid dive into the sounds and rhythms of memory and dreamscapes, all the way back to the womb itself.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: dreams, memory, Poetry

Matwaala’s Poets of Colour Series: Native American Women Poets

8th August 20229th August 2022  Lucy Writers

Matwaala’s latest Poets of Colour series brings together four poets and one artist whose work explores the lands, rivers, culture and histories belonging to and inherited by contemporary Native Americans.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Andrina Smith, Indigenous peoples, Jeremy Dennis, Kamala Platt, Lucille Lang Day, Matwaala, Native American Poets, Pramila Venkateswaran, Usha Akella, women poets

Life’s A Butch & extracts from An Attempt At Exhausting An Undergraduate Essay by JP Seabright

17th July 202220th July 2022  JP Seabright

JP Seabright captures the excitement and ‘gay abandon’ of queer love in ‘Life’s A Butch’ and treats us to a selection of gorgeous visual poems and collages from their upcoming collection, An Attempt At Exhausting An Undergraduate Essay.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: collage, Jeanette Winterson, JP Seabright, My Body's Bodies Editorial, poems, Poetry, poets, queer love

Wo(e)manhood and the Architecture of Feminist Solidarity: A Review of Usha Akella’s I Will Not Bear You Sons

4th July 20225th July 2022  Basudhara Roy

In these immaculately crafted and powerful, polyphonic poems, Usha Akella issues a rallying cry for all women to unite, resist and fight the violence of the patriarchy.

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Posted in Arts, Books, PoetryTagged: Abortion, Basudhara Roy, Feminism, I Will Not Bear You Sons, Poetry, poetry review, Review, Roe vs Wade, Spinifex Press, Usha Akella

Body Ecstatic: a poem by Selin Genc

14th June 2022  Selin Genc

In this vivid, mystical poem, Selin Genc dives into the flowing relationships between body, space and spirit, abundance and lack, and asks how life can be lived between the extremes of excess and nothing at all.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: My Body's Bodies Editorial, mystical poetry, Poetry

Crone: a poem by Shikhandin

1st June 20221st June 2022  Shikhandin

In this vivid, resonant poem, the ageing body is mirrored in the archetype of the crone – old woman, wise woman, goddess.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Ageing, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry

Strawberry: a poem by Kate McMeans

24th May 202224th May 2022  Kate McMeans

Kate McMeans’ beautiful poem captures a single, precious moment in which a new mother is able to shed labels and expectations and be herself.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Creative Writing, Motherhood, Poetry

My Vagina, My Valentine: a poem by Laura Warner

19th May 202220th May 2022  Laura Warner

Laura Warner’s poem explores the effect of direct conversation with the vagina, and how the words and language we choose to use can alter our relationship and power dynamics with our bodies.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: My Body's Bodies Editorial, Periods, Poetry

To Avantisundari & other poems by Sanjukta Dasgupta

16th May 202216th May 2022  Sanjukta Dasgupta

In this selection of poetry from across poet and scholar Sanjukta Dasgupta’s published collections, the unheard, undesired and misunderstood voices of women, real and mythical, rise up with wit, verve and vengeance.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Avantisundari, Circe, Cleopatra, Draupadi, Durga, Feminism, Gender, Greek Mythology, Helen, In the Kitchen, Indian literature, Indian mythology, Kali, Lakshmi, Medea, Medusa, Menaka, Mythology, Ophelia, poems, Poetry, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Sita

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