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Daljit Nagra · Poem: ‘Yiewsley’
close your eyes and feel the smog clear as you descend shrinking into your boyhood shorts and slow as cruising wings to your town where a kola kube in a scoop for a paper bag at the sweet shop is on your tongue now throw a hand to the right – watch a road bend for the runways – throw a hand to the left and your road straightens towards Uxbridge, the Venice of West London with its water docks no one’s heard of your town with its fragrance of apple hellos that pass through each passer-by like a...
Writers Rebel
On 11 October 2019, a group of writers congregated in Trafalgar Square to protest against climate change as part of Extinction Rebellion’s October Uprising. In a four-hour marathon of readings from novelists, poets, screenwriters and academics, writers insisted on the responsibility of artists to address our climate crisis. But can their protest make a difference? How do writers regard their role in leading social change?
I reread the GCSE poems we studied and honestly wtf did they make us learn?
GCSE English Lit lessons were those near daily occurrences in which you would leave the classroom feeling like your hand had fallen off as you’d casually ripped apart every single letter of a Simon Armitage poem to discover what the poet really meant when he talked about the clown punk. Usually it actually wasn’t that deep but your English teacher really tried to convince you there was a specific reason why that full stop was in a certain position.
Poetry Please, Richard Scott
Roger McGough is joined by the poet Richard Scott, who shares a selection of his favourite poems from amongst listeners' requests. Show more Roger McGough is joined by Richard Scott (whose debut poetry collection Soho was shortlisted for the 2018 TS Eliot Prize), who shares a selection of his favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listeners' requests. His choices include poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Jane Yeh, Mary Ruefle, Denise Riley, Daljit Nagra and Mark Doty.
Daljit Nagra · Two Poems · LRB 2 May 2012
Subscribers can also read ‘This Be the Pukka Verse’ and ‘A Ballad for Bopoluchi’.
The Poem: ‘Ghazal’
is the Habeas Corpus in the desert Inshallah is the Human Rights Act and Abu Ghraib calling cards for the ghazi desert Inshallah does the...
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