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Fluke by Any Other Name Is a Flight Number

by Momtaza Mehri

Fluke by Any Other Name Is a Flight Number - Momtaza Mehri

Poet

Momtaza Mehri

B. 1994

3 poems available

"I digress. Let’s live in digression. We have no other choices.", from the poem Haematology #1

Poem

“From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.” Sonnet 98, William Shakespeare. Spring has longed…

Collection

Celebrating Shakespeare

Why not celebrate Shakespeare Week (21-27 March) and the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth (and death) on April 23rd by taking a deep dive into The Bard’s sonnets? By turns cheeringly familiar and strikingly subversive, Shakespeare’s Sonnets endure due to their…

Poet

Hannah Sullivan

B. 1979

“Outside, this incandescence in the gardens, the sprinklers turning in the garden squares”

Collection

Poetry, Peace & Protest

In these challenging times we’ve curated a collection of poems which reflect different aspects of war, conflict and loss. Whilst highlighting the human cost of war by representing individual and shared grief, these poems affirm our collective humanity and speak…