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Alhambra – by Omar Musa
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Alhambra – by Omar Musa

Mashallah —
tsk tsk tsk —
walls brim with barakas —
the Almighty’s horror vacui —
knotted Kufic, lattice-worked centuries —
rammed, iron-blooded, light-strafed earth —

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Rescue – by Toby Davidson
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Rescue – by Toby Davidson

I hang out with what I suppose is your ghost

and call you by only the last of your names,

I in my new place and you in yours.

It’s waggling bliss before recall and what took you

snarl in combined from the teeth of an ocean

too broad to tear around, comical hound.

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with flowers – by Alexander Bennetts
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with flowers – by Alexander Bennetts

If you hide behind a mixed bouquet you can get out of a tram fine. You can get out of small talk when you’re hoarding grief like a bundle of paper straws. With flowers, your headshot could be a botanist’s pin-up.

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An Island of Dogs – by Ronald Araña Atilano
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An Island of Dogs – by Ronald Araña Atilano

Everyone had left after the typhoons,
says our boatman. Only two dogs live here—

they wander aimlessly through mudflats,
along the empty beach. See them come to the water

to meet us, tails wagging as soon as boat touches sand,
eyes leaping as we disembark.

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The Burial Feathers – by Yasmin Smith
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The Burial Feathers – by Yasmin Smith

WINNER OF THE GWEN HARWOOD POETRY PRIZE 2024

The afternoon’s powerlines are pebbled

with the chalky plumage of white cockatoos,

tipped with overblown flaxen feathers.

In the afternoon’s unfixed light,

I am reminded of the funeral parlour.

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and – by Helen Jarvis
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and – by Helen Jarvis

RUNNER-UP, GWEN HARWOOD POETRY PRIZE 2024

today I drove into a rainbow, its half-arch

picked clean and landing in the rubble beside

the new McDonald’s, and the wet road shone in my wake

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