Poetry in motion

A selection of poems that move us, that reveal the stories.

Fallen oak

Fallen oak The crack was deafening, dreadYet familiar to the boneProne by the time I got thereDressing gown storm soakedFeet wet and sobbing like a

I am a holon – Mashudu Ramano

I AM A HOLON Written on the 13th of February 2015 at the Cape Town International Airport. I am a holonA system made up of

Treasure – Lourdes Gant’s mother

I have a treasure Much better than gold, It is your friendship. It is your friendship, which I shall cherish Until I become old. Photo

I did not choose – Mashudu Ramano

I did not choose to existI did not chose to be bornI did not choose to be born a helpless, fragile and completely dependent babyI

Fate #3: Hope

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio Hope spoils your tastes for the way it is. It spoils you from the work that’s just what it does.” Hope

I’m dying to fly to Africa. Dave Hampton

If I don’t fly, why the hell should someone else? There’s all sorts of degrees of engaging with the destructive impacts of jetting off far

Changing Shores

These narrative poems by Sarah Hymas will accompany you on your journey along Crosby Beach. They capture changes in coastal processes, land use, shoreline management

Fate #2: Now

Now Kids figure that something has been stolen from them…what they could have been,what they could have had,what they could have done.The whole world that

Fate #1: What time is it?

Hey, what time is it?Well, it’s the Anthropocene baby.That’s what they’re calling it. That means that we’re the centre of it all.That means that we

Please Call Me By My True Name

Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow —even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arrivingto be a bud on a

This is not a House of War

Image Dominika Roseclay This is not a House of War – Henry Normal Everything I want for my children, I want for your children.Everything I

When the Earth is Cut

By Elizabeth Harrop for Live Encounters magazine, August 2014 issue Image robin thakur Indigenous peoples were one with the landBut the earth on which their