Represent: reflections on Caleb Femi’s “Poor.”
T.S.J. Harling
In 2020, Caleb Femi released his award-winning debut poetry collection, Poor, reflecting on his experiences growing up on the North Peckham estate. Fellow Londoner T.S.J. Harling offers her own reaction to the poet, filmmaker, photographer and former young people’s laureate for London.
Blind Faith
Simra Sadaf
but you still want him to stay,
so you let him fuck you,
but baby girl, he will only bring
flowers to your funeral,
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Deconstruction for Juniors
Barry Peters
“How there’s nobody with a gun
bustin in right now?”
Victor Road Boys
Robert Vaughan
we could barely breathe
laughing so hard while
building our own
shadow houses
The Commonplace
Carol Casey
“And in this other time and place we would not even know we were safe, or what it means to have the commonplace.”
The Looting
Jeremy Szuder
“The first thing they did was
break out all the windows of my room.”
Blue Masks
Greg Keeler
“It didn’t take long before I was glowering at others who’d forgotten theirs.”