3 poems by Victor Tapner
Suffragettes Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928; Adela Pankhurst Walsh 1885-1961 I taught you how to walkin step,your school-bag full of fireworks, gold
Suffragettes Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928; Adela Pankhurst Walsh 1885-1961 I taught you how to walkin step,your school-bag full of fireworks, gold
First published in AMBIT 244, Jenny Pagdin’s Discharge Day is published in AMBIT 246. Here we share the full trio
Third prize in the the Annual Ambit Competition for Poetry 2021, judged by Kim Addonizio. It started out innocently enough:
Second prize winner of the Annual Ambit Competition 2021 for Poems, judged by Kim Addonizio. Your brain has given you
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Rabbit published by Boiler House Press (2018) Sophie Robinson’s Rabbit is a beautifully designed book. Small, white, and compact, it wears a
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Judge George Szirtes reveals the 1st, 2nd, 3rd & runners up In Ambit’s fourth Annual Poetry Competition, first prize goes
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Ambit chews the fat with the Hungarian-born poet Born in Budapest in 1948, George Szirtes moved with his family to
The Color Of James Brown’s Scream – taken from New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set published by Tatu (2016)
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A poem by Mary Jean Chan My mother lays the table with chopsticks & ceramic spoons, expects you to fail at
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A poem by Elizabeth Jennings It is burning the winter away.The smoke is coming like clouds over sea,It has its
A poem by BS Johnson And should she die tonight, with this three years’ difference as well between us now? Or