Abolish the Police A chap at the door    in the white dawn. ‘You’re late,’ says    the police, who’s like me with testosterone poisoning, like    eight trows in a yellow jacket, with eight    telescopic batons. ‘I’m late,’ I nod, &    whack the kettle on, making the steam a mask to slip…
Category: Poems
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‘Hum’ by Tara Skurtu (Poetry Wales 55.1)
for Indré Are you aching? The poet held my handat the edge of the world’s smallest village.Think of pain as a plane. She wanted meto forgive what I couldn’t forgive.Only the side door to the Assumptionof Mary was unlocked—she kneltat the Virgin’s painted feet and prayed,and I took pictures of a crucified Jesusin a fishbowl…
10 Unmissable Poems Free Digital Download! (Part 5 of 5)
Read the final two of our top ten unmissable poems published in Poetry Wales from the last 5 years. To celebrate 55 years of publishing poetry, every Friday for the past four weeks we’ve released two poems from the list. As our final post, we’re including a free digital downloadable edition of the full list. Click…
10 Unmissable Poems from the last 5 years (Part 4 of 5)
Read part four of our top ten unmissable poems published in Poetry Wales from the last 5 years. To celebrate 55 years of publishing poetry, every Friday we’ll be releasing two poems from the list, with our final post including a downloadable PDF edition of the poems. The ten poems in this short collection were selected…
10 Unmissable Poems from the last 5 years (Part 3 of 5)
See our third instalment of our top ten unmissable poems published in Poetry Wales from the last 5 years. To celebrate 55 years of publishing poetry, every Friday we’ll be releasing two poems from the list, with our final post including a downloadable PDF edition of the poems. The ten poems in this short collection were…
10 Unmissable Poems from the last 5 years (Part 2 of 5)
Read the second instalment of our top ten unmissable poems published in Poetry Wales from the last 5 years. To celebrate 55 years of publishing poetry, every Friday we’ll be releasing two poems from the list, with our final post including a downloadable PDF edition of the poems. The ten poems in this short collection were…
10 Unmissable Poems from the last 5 years (Part 1 of 5)
Read the first two of our top ten unmissable poems published in Poetry Wales from the last 5 years. To celebrate 55 years of publishing poetry, every Friday we’ll be releasing two poems from the list, with our final post including a downloadable PDF edition of the poems. The ten poems in this short collection were…