ankitawrites
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I don’t know very English
Found Poem based on extracts from Fidel Castro’s letter to President Roosevelt. Continue reading
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Your Darling is a Cuttlefish
You have never seen her dance. Browner than black and white, she is sepia. Continue reading
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Give or Take
“Two signs on a brick wall point the way. Take it or leave it. It’s as simple as that. The choice is only yours to make.” Continue reading
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Watching Sunrise over Mountains
two words eliding together suryode clouds tearing at seams, re-feathering for day crows flapping wings Continue reading
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Clowns can get away with Murder
Clown walks into police station. Half a cheek smeared with the weight of a falling tear. Lips stretched to a clotted moon. Drooling. Continue reading
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Has anyone told Dave yet?
Rumor has it that it was written by his wife. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke. Continue reading
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Shorts
Brother imagines himself marching to Burma. Superman’s knickers. A red turban. Wants to be a hero. Continue reading
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Besharam, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti (2001)
SATI: You’re my sister. JASPAL: So? SATI: We’re the same. Same blood. Same badness. As bad as each other. (Scene 12) I discovered this play while browsing the basement of Housmans: a radical bookshop in Kings Cross. Set in Birmingham in the 1980s – 90s the play is a strikingly visceral depiction of a working-class… Continue reading
About Ankita
Ankita Saxena is the author of Mother | Line, which released in April 2023, with Verve Poetry Press. She read English Literature at Jesus College, Oxford (2014-2017), where she was Head of Events at Oxford University Poetry Society, and President of the Turl Street Arts Festival. She has been commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award three times. She is a Barbican Young Poet alumnus, part of the Octavia Poetry Collective, and one half of the ORIGINS Poetry Duo. Her poetry is published in Wasafiri, Modern Poetry in Translation and Bath Magg. She has performed widely across the UK, including live at Hammersmith Appollo, with The Guilty Feminist.
By day, she works at Social Finance, a not-for-profit social enterprise, helping to tackle complex and enduring issues in society and create lasting and widespread change.