The winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 is Jason Allen-Paisant, for Self-Portrait as Othello!

This poem is a risk I would not have taken had Amit Majmudar not given me this title. Grateful to him, and grateful, too, to the generous crew Contemporary Verse 2, including EIC @cpetersp, for giving it a home.

I’m just realizing the poetic imagery that was being employed when Macka Diamond said, “mi like 6:30 but now a 10 o’clock, so recline the chair mek mi siddung inna yuh lap”. Brilliant! Yes I know I’m late.

I want to borrow Judge Judy’s library because she will read a b*tch for filth!

this is how australia celebrates halloween? i’m in tears 😭

📲 Is this guy doing God’s Work ?

An Old Farmer writes to his Son who is in Prison:

'Dear Son, this year I won't be able to plant Potatoes because I can't dig the field by myself, I know if you are here, you would have helped me'.

The Son writes back,
'Dad don't even think of digging the field because that's…

🔄 Retweet to vote for Jaydon Hibbert's 17.54m world U20 record in the triple jump.

Has the ackee warning been lifted?
Is it safe to eat ackee now? #AskingForAFriend #Ackee #Jamaica

J_og This requires a nuanced conversation that a segment of opposite gender loving men not ready for LOL!. However, this really puts it into perspective about what's going on within our colonized dystopian societies. We all need to do deprogramming.

Shared a panel on Intl Poetry Day with two Poet Laureates, mentors and favorite poets, a rising star and an awesome all round storyteller! Respect to olive senior Mervyn Morris, Likkle Black Writing Ras 🇯🇲 & Opal Palmer Adisa . One Poetry Love!!!

Sudden writer’s block at 83,000 words. Tempted to just write “and they we were all killed by a giant meteor,” the end.

Not Roy Porter triggering the entire UWI, Mona student body lol

We’re BACK 🥳🎉 Issue 10 out now with poems by Likkle Black Writing Ras 🇯🇲 Miguel Barretto García 🏳️‍🌈🧠🎭 🌺 Joan Cruz 🇵🇭💙🖋️ Dr Aviva Dautch @mythicalapollo Nirmal Kaur Yahia Lababidi Edward Lee Poetry Agata @ Uplift Body Mind Ernesto Sarezale 🎲 Hans Stahlschmidt Antonia Taylor Eric Yip & Annina Zheng-Hardy haranapoetry.com

Issue 10 is out now! 💌🪄 With poems by Likkle Black Writing Ras 🇯🇲 Miguel Barretto García 🏳️‍🌈🧠🎭 🌺 Joan Cruz 🇵🇭💙🖋️ Dr Aviva Dautch @mythicalapollo Nirmal Kaur Yahia Lababidi Edward Lee Poetry Agata @ Uplift Body Mind Ernesto Sarezale 🎲 Hans Jorg Stahlschmidt Antonia Taylor Eric Yip & Annina Zheng-Hardy❣️ haranapoetry.com

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”

— Anaïs Nin

'Saturday mornings are for the way the belly
of bedspreads bulge
when they swallow the breeze.'

Look ahead to the weekend with 'The Migrating Aroma of Bleach', a poem by Likkle Black Writing Ras 🇯🇲 ➡️ bit.ly/3FIEZVY

The speaker in the song 'Dog Shit' compares the colour of a woman's vaginal opening to that of a certain flavour food drink, 'cherry lasco'. By drawing such a parallel, $wizz reveals the speaker's tendency to perform cunnilingus.

Chrissmus a come mi waa mi llama