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Inside you are wild horses and the men of Thrace
After William Francis Calderon, On the Sea-Beat Coast, Where Hardy Thracians Tame the Savage Horse, 1905. i.i bound until my ribs cracked like semicolons. until my chest caved in.i fell off the horse and broke my neck.pain has channelled a new, wet cave in the cliffside of my body.aspiration chambers—heaving, franticalveoli with all their rushing…
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Painting in Squares for Dora Maar
‘The Weeping Woman’ is a painting by Pablo Picasso of his then partner, Dora Maar. Dora Maar was an innovator in photomontage and surrealism. Dora experienced domestic violence at the hands of Picasso, and history has typically only remembered her as his muse. In this poem, Ted Greensmith-West writes for Dora, an artist and innovator…
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Get in Nietzsche
‘Get in Nietzsche’ is a poem from Mary Craigg that bends the idea from FRAMED! to look at the ‘art’ of nihilism (with a touch of irony).
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Vincent
In the middle of the exhibition Edwin realised that they, and the artist, shared a connection. Standing at the Olive Grove, Edwin’s emotions took over – regarding the beauty of the thick brush strokes, and the sadness imbued.
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Group painting
A competitive nature and frustration with falling behind leap onto the canvas of this new poem from Chris White.
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nana
Loss becomes a tender, beautiful moment in this poem by Chris Girven, about their last visit they had with their nana before she passed away.
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starboy, or, luke skywalker is a gay transgender man and i know this because george lucas himself came to me in a vision
If you like taking favourite childhood science fiction movies and making them so unabashedly transgender that even C3PO would look away, this is the poem you’re looking for.
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1v1 SNOG
Skyrim, sub bottom thots and Cuba Street metaphorical fireworks blend together in a 1v1 SNOG from poet Devon Webb.
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while i watch love island
TRUE STORY: the promised escapism of reality dating television fails to let sad, cold, broke woman stop thinking about Bad Things™ so she wrote a poem about it. Join Kyra as they watch yet another seemingly endless season of Love Island while everything starts to crumble around them.
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MTN DILK
*heavy chanting* “MTN DILK, MTN DILK, COME AND DRINK THE SPICY MILK!” Back with one to make you chunder, Rebecca our queen among carnivores serves up jugs of the fresh and frothy ‘MTN DILK’.
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The Spell
When desire speaks a different language.