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Lola Oh

Lola Oh is a Brit(ish) poet, born to a Jamaican mother and a Nigerian father. Based in South London, Lola uses her work to explore blackness, family, and loss. Lola is currently a member of Griot’s Well, is an alumn of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective and Barbican Young Poets, and was a finalist in the 2021 Roundhouse Poetry Slam.



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Bad Daughters

Prize Entry

June 2023

Lola Oh

Prize Entry

June 2023

After Frannie Choi   leaving, good daughters staying home with the light switched on. bad daughters find god in the pulpit of a man,...

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January 2014

Leg over Leg

Ahmad Fāris al-Shidyāq

TR. Humphrey Davies

fiction

January 2014

First published in 1855, Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fāriyāq,’ alter ego of...

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January 2016

Suite

Pierre Senges

TR. Jacob Siefring

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January 2016

‘Suite’ was born of an invitation Pierre Senges received to contribute to an anthology on the future of the novel (Devenirs...

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September 2013

To Sing the Love of Danger

Adnan Sarwar

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September 2013

The Gulf War made my first year at Towneley High School uncomfortable. White lads taunted us Pakistanis with pictures...

 

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