In my country girls disappear

Roseline Mgbodichinma

In this poem, Roseline Mgbodichinma sources the disappearances of the Chibok girls, Uwa, Tina, and Jennifer - writing for the girls and women in Nigeria that have been lost, brutalised and assaulted.

Poetry-3jfa11 January 2021Comment

Photographs

Mridula Sharma

This poem primarily aims to initiate discussion on the process of photographing the dead. Though necessary to document remnants of bodies that have been torn apart from genocidal violence, at what cost are tourists, viewers, and audiences engaging in the process of dehumanisation?

Poetry-3jfa12 December 2020Comment

mending a victoria’s secret camisole

Tan Jing Min

This poem chronicles the author’s mending of an article of fast fashion - a physical, personal act of resistance against the cogs of global capitalism and the suffering others have to endure for us to continuously consume. This poem, too, seeks to resist.

Poetry-3jfa8 December 2020FeaturedComment

Lost and Found

Samuel Sim

This poem is a self-reflective response to intersecting crises happening all over the world, grappling with how one should reconcile with continuous feelings of grief and unjustness. ‘Lost and Found’ seeks to hold space for discomfort in hopes of finding solace, stretching our wildest (re)imaginings.

Poetry-3jfa22 October 2020Comment

A W(e)man

Suthida Chang

Inspired and catalysed by her own experiences as a young woman, Suthida Chang's poem ‘A W(e)man’ reproduces uncomfortable conversations about our bodies and appearances, shedding light on the misogynist attitudes towards how women ought to look, dress, act and behave, as well as how easily these types of conversations are normalised in social situations.

Poetry-3jfa16 October 2020Comment

every unbroken thing

Christian Yeo

Following an internship in NGOs serving the red-light district and the homeless in Singapore, Christian Yeo began to learn about how vulnerable communities were disproportionately affected by Singapore’s circuit breaker measures. In his poem, ‘every unbroken thing’, Christian reckons with the faces behind the numbers, the people behind the arguments, and the lives whose evanescence and invisibility belie the strongest and most unbending of wills.

Poetry-3jfa24 September 2020Comment

crown

Jonathan Chan

‘crown’ was written in March 2020. At the time, the reality of a novel virus seemed distant in the minds of those living in Britain, but its justifiable potential for racist violence had begun to make its way into British cities. Reports of Chinatowns emptied of patronage, and harassment and violence of those of East Asian descent, whether British or international, began to proliferate.

Poetry-3jfa12 September 2020Covid-19Comment

I Speak of the Forgotten: for the nameless

Allison Haines

“When we love, when we die—are we not all the same?—we are one, we are different, we are nothing at all… I speak of the forgotten, the lost, the broken.”

Poetry-3jfa11 June 2019 Comment

The Lost Boy

Anushka Sisodia

This poem is an acknowledgement of people who have been displaced and whose lives have been torn apart by extreme weather events. Leaning on the stories of those who survived Typhoon Mangkhut in the Philippines in 2018, it seeks to reflect the world through the eyes of child after his home was destroyed by the storm, and the spaces he once believed to be safe and familiar were distorted into battered landscapes of confusion and loss.

Poetry-3jfa1 May 2019