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Ahana Banerji
Ahana Banerji is an 18-year-old sixth form student from London. She has placed in various youth poetry competitions, including the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award in 2019, 2020, and 2021. She has a special interest in postcolonial identity and is currently developing a manuscript. 

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Leaving tongues

Prize Entry

February 2022

Ahana Banerji

Prize Entry

February 2022

You wrap my fingers in the leaves, wintergreen,  twisting psalms between loose teeth.    Bound, I swear to something sharp  as my father’s nose,...

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February 2015

A Closer Joan

Shawn Wen

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February 2015

Here are a few of the Joans I know. The girl who arrives at Port Authority Bus Terminal in...

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August 2016

The Place of the Bridge

Jennifer Kabat

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August 2016

I.   Look up. A woman tumbles from the sky, her dress billowing around her like a parachute as...

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April 2017

Two Poems

Fady Joudah

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April 2017

EUROPA AND THE BULL   The boat was loaded on a truck. The truck took me to the border....

 

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