Assemblages is a provision of space; a space for work, a building of memory, inspirations and ideas where one can create art, where one can escape and where one can host a myriad of philosophies

Sometimes the pain, or sadness, is balder than you think. Three new poems from Yĕ Yĕ.

Three poems that argue for literature as a form of political commitment and reflect on the ambivalences of writing from outside the disastrous zone.

Set firmly within contemporary Britain, these four pieces look at the linkage between power, media, and financial institutions, and explore their impact upon displaced people, the impoverished, and the working class. The poems discuss how narratives are controlled, how power is wielded with a view to maintaining the status quo, often at the negation of human life and the health of wider society itself.

Two new poems from Will Harris: words overtaking thought, dripping down the back of my jeans, impeding movement.

Two new poems from Alycia Pirmohamed about how particular bodies take up space in particular landscapes.

This workshop, sponsored by Mosaic Rooms and Makan Rights, explored the relationship between an array of literatures and solidarities, resulting in a collectively written poem.

Poems drawn from an unfinished sequence on hydrocarbons and containment, where the geographical coordinates have been removed.

A selection of poems - sounded-out, with yous, helical - from Tom Betteridge's forthcoming book Dog Shades (JUST NOT, 2023)

These poems, paying notice to un-idyllic trees in urban landscapes, probe at the uneasy but productive identifications between humans and nature made possible by language. The first, about a poplar on Peckham Rye, reinscribes the site of Blake’s vision of Ezekiel in an examination of literary legacy; the second explores perception and the trouble with anthropocentric metaphor through an observation of leaves that linger around streetlights.

'Elsewhere and until' feels through and with climate grief, hatred of golf, the colour pink, e-waste, the Sublime, procrastination, and leisure.

These are extracts from a long unfinished poem about Raipur and its many offerings of postindustrial sublime.

Through Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay's 'Identification', though it may be described as a body being lost at sea—she has reverted into being a “boat”: a carrier floating in the in-between, finally free from earthly bounds and psychological deterrents. 

Drifting through the desert of "a real damn shame of a crisis," Ed Luker went to Mexico last April and found a way to push through all the bad feelings

Two meditations on the hysterics (and ironies) of faith by Priyanka Voruganti

These five units by makalani bandele linger in sonic and syntactical experiments utilising musical conversations and algorithmic contingency.

T. Person’s monumental Everscapes began, in 2020, as a collection of automatic writings set in the queue for a club. The queue is a lustrous backdrop for desire, anticipation, loss and memory.

A selection of poems from participants of a workshop held at AP Berlin

‘Digits After Orph’ is gridded atop Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, to amplify the contrast, that sequence being one of presence (and other things), this one of absence (and other things), exploring some realities and mindsets and speculating on them.

An eviscerating poem about Imperial Chemical Industries by Dom Hale

‘Antique, gritty, I left England, never to be seen again.’

Bhanu Kapil deploys the broken form or mood of a ghazal to evoke memories of leaving a country, then returning to it (England) after many years.

A series of definitions from Tom Crompton: ‘Undilutable slang truth.’

Poems from a workshop conducted at Camden Art Centre in response to Jesse Darling’s ‘Enclosures’ exhibition; a poetic practice of duration and modernist perambulation working through metal skeletons, surveillance capitalism and fragility

Three sharp poems from neo-surrealist Ronnie McGrath: ‘Ra’s astrological earth child/ revolutionary mouth of some architectonic geometry’

A selection of pieces produced during a writing workshop conducted by Azad at Turf Projects, Croydon

Here are a selection of pieces written by King’s College London students during a writing workshop conducted by the 87 Press

Two poems written during the major uprisings of Palestinian resistance against ongoing Israeli occupation in 2021. ‘Word for Faith’ considers the false promise made to the Palestinians expelled from their homes in 1948 that they would one day return. It examines the necessity of a wilful faith in the words of an oath or a vow in order for language itself to function successfully, and yet, the inevitable vacuousness of political rhetoric. ‘Homecoming’ offers an account of a displaced Palestinian visiting their homeland, the premeditated ways in which this is made into an arduous and intimidating process, and, in spite of this, their perpetual — seemingly ethereal — bond with the land.

This is an extract from 'Dissonance and Authenticity,' a meditation on class, staircases, and meritocracy. It begins by describing interdependent classes as a higher dimensional knot projected onto the present, meanders through grades and discipline and job hunts, and ends with a discussion of intergenerational eating habits. “The only thing more provinicial than provinciality is the critique of provincialism, you can extrapolate from that.”