Maya Angelou explores suffering, inequality and a people’s refusal to give up in this hard-hitting poem.
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The Three Fates
Rosemary Dobson’s unique backwards-poem reminds us that, however much we might want to, we can’t change the past.
ReadWritten Near a Port on a Dark Evening
Charlotte Smith negotiates the shifting sands of life in this dark and stormy sonnet.
ReadMarrysong
If you think that getting married means living happily-ever-after, Dennis Scott will probably want to have a word.
ReadThe Caged Skylark
Gerard Manley Hopkins explores what it feels like to be trapped in your skin.
ReadRising Five
Norman Nicholson warns us not to wish our lives away.
ReadWatching For Dolphins
David Constantine wonders if there isn’t something more to life than meets the eye.
ReadCarpet Weavers, Morocco
Looking at life differently in Carol Rumens’ challenging poem
ReadMuliebrity
After many years away from the country of her birth, Sujata Bhatt wonders if it’s finally time to share her memories of India.
ReadStoryteller
Liz Lochhead casts a spell in this magical realist poem.
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