If you want to know wahala
You can find it always in two places
A tro-tro in Accra
Or a danfo bus in Lagos. Continue Reading Litro #162: ...
Tom Lordan on a rich and innovative avant-garde poetry collection – if poetry is the right word – from Berlin-based Broken Dimanche Press. Continue Reading The Irreducible Materiality ...
I Take Nothing Strong, Only Lightning, the first collection of poetry published by Beaconsfield-born Nathan A. Thompson, is an assemblage of ten years of writing (from the age of 21 ...
“I whispered listen / listen today I read in a place / I cannot tell you of the dark matter / in the cargo of things.” Continue ...
In Western thought, literature has often been separated from politics. Plato founded this tradition when he famously banished the poet from the city with the resounding words: “Not pleasure and ...
Dylan Brethour tells the tragic tale of the Mandelstams – poet Osip and writer Nadezhda – whose harrowing experience of persecution, exile and betrayal exposed the USSR’s excesses. ...
Tradition, betrayal and pain dance together in this poem.
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What can you buy on a street? A song of surprise.
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A poem/dialogue on possibility and impossibility.
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On fortune, reading, and love of the other.
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Remembering the fallen. Continue Reading I Was There
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A meditation on inequality. Continue Reading Bonfire Night Beneath the Stars
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A future trend turns its back on clothes. Continue Reading that was joy she said
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“Can ‘modern’ ever equate with ‘enjoyment’ in art or books? And should we worry if it doesn’t?” Michael Spring answers this question, in an essay that takes us from Larkin ...
Litro chats with the spoken word artist ahead of his Latitude Festival appearance. Continue Reading Music Q&A with Scroobius Pip
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Ahead of his appearance at the Latitude Festival, Litro talks to one of the hottest names on London’s spoken word scene. Continue Reading Poetry Q&A with George the ...
I have travelled widely and to some unexpected places like India, China, Iraq and Malaysia. I don’t have an overwhelming desire to go anywhere as such. I am restless in ...
A real life ends, but is imagined by those left behind… Continue Reading Imaginary Numbers
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In the last of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Philippa Barker contemplates her desktop. Continue Reading Shakespearean Sonnet Competition: Desktop
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In the fourth of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Linda Atterton takes a new angle on Romeo and Juliet. Continue Reading Shakespearean Sonnet Competition: Banished
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