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[Digital Poetics 4.26] Live Air (For Peter Gizzi) by Azad Ashim Sharma
A poem written in tribute: ‘I write into your poetry like a seeker watching for the changing nodes of tradition, I’ll be / buried on that horizon, its open sky.’
Reflections on Archiving Smoke workshop by Alycia Pirmohamed and attendees
Alycia Pirmohamed reflects on a workshop held concerning archives with contributions from attendees produced in the session
[Digital Poetics 4.23] Four Poems by Clifton Gachagua
Four poems by Clifton Gachagua formed by collages of (mis)rememberings, full of nostalgia, jubilation, music and heartbreak: "I know I have not learnt anything since my reincarnation, / might as well have been sleepwalking, relying on old memories."
[Digital Poetics 4.21] Five Poems by Leo Li
Leo Li presents us with five poems on dichotomies and the possibilities in-between: “Behind us, / the spongiform city where I’d always thought / I belonged mouldered in silent balm.”
[Digital Poetics 4.20] Three Poems by Remi Graves
These three poems by Remi Graves explores homonyms, (mis)gendered bodies, alienation and disappearance: “a boi walks into a wood— / ouch!”
[Digital Poetics 4.18] Antidepressants by Aliaskar Abarkas
An intimate reflection on mental health, identity, and the complexities of antidepressant use, expressed through a blend of prose and poetry.
[Digital Poetics 4.16] Assemblages by Labeja Kodua Okullu
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
[Digital Poetics 4.15] Three Poems by Yě Yě
Sometimes the pain, or sadness, is balder than you think. Three new poems from Yĕ Yĕ.
[Digital Poetics 4.13] Three Poems by Lola Olufemi
Three poems that argue for literature as a form of political commitment and reflect on the ambivalences of writing from outside the disastrous zone.
[Digital Poetics 4.9] Four Poems by Stuart McPherson
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.
[Digital Poetics 4.8] Chopped Tomatoes and Family Scenario by Will Harris
Two new poems from Will Harris: words overtaking thought, dripping down the back of my jeans, impeding movement.
[Digital Poetics 4.6] Two Poems by Alycia Pirmohamed
Two new poems from Alycia Pirmohamed about how particular bodies take up space in particular landscapes.
Solidarity and Literature
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.
[Digital Poetics 4.5] on hydrocarbons and containment by Mau Baiocco
Poems drawn from an unfinished sequence on hydrocarbons and containment, where the geographical coordinates have been removed.
[Digital Poetics 4.3] Three Poems by Tom Betteridge
A selection of poems - sounded-out, with yous, helical - from Tom Betteridge's forthcoming book Dog Shades (JUST NOT, 2023)
[Digital Poetics 4.1] Two Poems by Shani Cadwallender
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.
Digital Poetics 3.32 Elsewhere and until by Ali Graham
'Elsewhere and until' feels through and with climate grief, hatred of golf, the colour pink, e-waste, the Sublime, procrastination, and leisure.
Digital Poetics 3.30 Two Poems from ‘Centre’s Reserve’ by Mantra Mukim
These are extracts from a long unfinished poem about Raipur and its many offerings of postindustrial sublime.
Digital Poetics 3.26 Identification by Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay
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.
Digital Poetics 3.25 Two Poems by Ed Luker
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