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Category: 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

‘blinding’ by Lizzy Yarwood

5th May 2022  Lizzy Yarwood

In this powerful poem, Lizzy Yarwood contemplates the “electric current” of chronic nerve pain, and the emotional effect it has on both mind and body.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Lizzy Yarwood, My Body's Bodies Editorial, nerve pain, poem, Poetry

Patterns by Jane Hartshorn

26th April 202227th April 2022  Jane Hartshorn

In this poetic prose piece, Jane Hartshorn’s experience of Compulsive Skin Picking Disorder leads her to explore – through physical encounters, popular culture, and past relationships – the connections that we try to see between the disparate elements of our lives, in twists and turns that often have no neat resolution.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-Fiction, PoetryTagged: Body Focused Repetitive Behaviour, Compulsive Skin Picking Disorder, Jane Hartshorn, My Body's Bodies Editorial, prose poems

The Haptics by Linda Dove

21st April 202221st April 2022  Linda Dove

In these five lush, beautifully written sonnets, Linda Dove explores the intricacies of touch – our need for it, our dismissal of it, and our changing senses in a world where our hands are becoming “unused things, frayed thread, dull knife”.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Haptics, Linda Dove, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry, Sonnets

Two poems from ‘dirty glass | the glass house’ by Wendy Allen and Charley Barnes

13th April 202213th April 2022  Lucy Writers

In these captivating poems from their joint project, Wendy Allen and Charley Barnes explore the fluid relationship of two narrators to their bodies, to the people surrounding them, and to the physical spaces their bodies occupy.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Charley Barnes, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry, Wendy Allen

Poems for my son: There isn’t enough room in the universe by Naima Rashid

4th April 20226th April 2022  Naima Rashid

In these poignant poems, Naima Rashid explores the beauty and complexity of motherhood, and the passage of time as both parent and child grow together.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Motherhood, mothers, Naima Rashid, Poetry

Fissuras: On writing from emptiness by Cecilia Sordi Campos

29th March 202231st March 2022  Cecilia Sordi Campos

In this powerful, vibrant poem, photographic artist Cecilia Sordi Campos brings together words and images to create a portrait of the primal landscapes of the body; of the feral beauty that we would find in the cracks and fissures if we only dared to look.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: My Body's Bodies Editorial, Photography, Poetry, prose poems, translated poetry, Translation

‘Figged Bodies’: a poem by Rojbîn Arjen Yigit

24th March 202228th March 2022  Rojbin Arjen Yigit

In this sensual and evocative poem, the simple act of eating a fig becomes a way of bringing a war-torn body back to life.

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

Two poems by Corinna Keefe

15th March 202215th March 2022  Corinna Keefe

In these delicate, gorgeously-written poems, the journey towards accepting the beauty of the body is both a hesitant and a joyful one.

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

Three poems by Kelly R. Samuels

8th March 202214th March 2022  Kelly R Samuels

In these three beautiful, thought-provoking poems, Kelly R. Samuels explores the faces and bodies we show to the world, and those we choose (or are forced) to keep hidden.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Kelly R. Samuels, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry

‘In this Body’s Country’: a poem by Basudhara Roy

21st February 202221st February 2022  Basudhara Roy

In this lyrical, powerful poem, Basudhara Roy explores the “numerous selves” held within the landscape and borders of the body.

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

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