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Dahmicca Wright

Dahmicca Wright lives in London, where she has worked in TV, film and publishing. She graduated from Oxford's Creative Writing MSt in 2018 and has a poem forthcoming in Wasafiri.



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The tree has fallen in the middle of the yard,   cracked to quarters during last night’s storm   which played its elegy then left in a rush   The angry lover flips land on its back,   leaves the earth a stripped and stained mattress   Rain has reduced a crab nestled by broken bark   to a small shell rotting in the midday heat   Children gawp at its glistening armour,   imagine its claws break men like molluscs,   then piece its home together, splint by splint   A gardener finally announces its condition   to stop them photographing the battered form   anyone could have mistaken to be sleeping
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February 2016

[from] What It Means to Be Avant-Garde

Anna Moschovakis

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February 2016

This is an excerpt from the middle of a longer poem. The full poem is in Moschovakis’s forthcoming book,...

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July 2014

Another month, another year, another crisis: eleven years in Beirut

Paul Cochrane

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July 2014

Rumours of impending conflict can wreak a particular type of havoc. This is not as physically manifest as the...

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September 2013

A God In Spite of His Nose

Anna Della Subin

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September 2013

‘Paradise is a person. Come into this world.’ — Charles Olson   In the darkness of the temple, footsteps...

 

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