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Rehan Qayoom is a poet of English and Urdu, editor, translator and archivist. Educated at Birkbeck College, University of London, he has featured in numerous literary publications and performed his work internationally. He lives in London.

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After Parveen Shakir: Poems

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Strange FrenZies

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About Time

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Review of ‘Love Is A Virus’ by Lola Demo

This mind-blowing album is pure seduction by music. ‘Love Is A Virus’ is very in-the-moment but its lyrics deliver an overall message about society’s obsession with making us into what we are not, with being other than oneself,. When one tries to change what one is, the things that define an individual, we are no longer wholly ourselves - That which makes each individual unique.  Auden takes up th Read more of this blog post »
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Marilyn by Richard Meryman
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Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
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Cactus Flowers by Judith Teixeira
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stridulating auburn sensualias
upon Carrara marble,
in a rare amphora
shone
proud
and fickle
dahlias

('The Colour of Sound').

I shall die
and still I cannot rid
my desire
of roses red as fire,
expiring in shreds
from the fury of my kisses

('Red Roses').

one love is
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Enough Said by Alan Bennett
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Extremes are not edges. Extremes are easy. It’s edges that are tricky.

The best compliment anyone has ever paid my writing is ‘He knows what it’s like to be me.’

Poetry best because you can do more in less.

Lying in the long chair in the flat and looki
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Auden by Peter Ackroyd
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Peter Ackroyd, that grand historian of London and serial biographer takes up the pen to write the first major biography of the poet W. H. Auden for quite some time. It is not a critical study as such though Auden's poetry is seen in the light of his ...more
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Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural by Dorka Tamás
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Surrealist Poems about Clocks/Pocket Sized by Jowonder Woodward
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'The broken hearted planet turns her back, / because we didn't witness the death of a lily.' Hot poetry, hitting on the time-less and timely, defined as "memorable speech" (Auden quoting someone else). 'Gaia' reminded me of a long gone restaurant of ...more
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What DONCHA KNOW? about HENRY MILLER by Twinka Thiebaud
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'She [June Miller] was the kind of woman other women, strangers, would stop on the street just to tell her how beautiful they thought she was ... The type of woman men would kill for, die for ... I can't be sure if one or two didn't end up committing ...more
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“I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.”
Hollace M. Metzger

“I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.”
Hollace M. Metzger

Arundhati Roy
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

Victoria Mosley
“Each morning they re- hang the sky
early, before sunrise; it moves to left or right
and I look hard to see the gap
between here and heaven.

© Victoria Mosley ‘’Love Bites”
Victoria Mosley

Alaska Gold
“He carries stars in his pockets
because he knows
she fears the dark.
Whenever sadness pays her a visit
he paints galaxies
on the back of her hands.”
Alaska Gold, Growing Light

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