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Politics of Poetry
‘Flag’ by Jasper Johns, 1954-55. The Urchin Movement continues its celebration of National Poetry Month with some of our favourite political poems. Read on and enjoy! ‘Revolution in the Revolution in...
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Poetry in Nature
‘Bathers at La Grenouillere’ by Claude Monet, 1869. Nature is everywhere and so is its poetry. National Poetry Month is coming to an end, but the celebration continues. And it won’t stop now, now that...
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Closing Out National Poetry Month with a Poem
By Geo Ong The Urchin Movement has certainly had a lot of fun during National Poetry Month. In the last thirty days we’ve shared with you some of our favourite comedic poems, political poems, nature...
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Summer’s Here with the Urchin Bookshelf
With each new season comes six new books on the Urchin horizon. Here are the latest reads added to the Urchin Bookshelf. Sarah’s books Letters of Ted Hughes Selected and edited by Christopher Reid I...
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That’s What She Said
Fixing on the Next Star By Patricia Smith* Between 1916 and 1970, more than half a million African-Americans left the South and migrated to Chicago. Mamas go quietly crazy, dizzied by the possibilities...
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Poet on Wall Street
By Geo Ong ‘Joven y piramides/Young Man and Pyramids’, Federico Garcia Lorca, 1929-30. Federico García Lorca was on Wall Street when the stock market crashed on Black Thursday in 1929. He described the...
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That’s What He Said
My heart would take the shape of a shoe if a siren lived in every village. But the night never ends when it leans on the sick, and there are ships that want to be seen in order to sink in peace....
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That’s What They Said
If like the Celtic people we revered the rivers we would prioritise this sacred knowledge and curtail the attempts of any that sought to pollute the rivers. If like the Nordic people we believed the...
View ArticleSome Call It Ballin’
Ever wonder what a sport magazine run by poets would look like? Wonder no longer because Some Call It Ballin’ is the real thing. Contributing editors Karissa Chen, Ross Gay, and Patrick Rosal are all...
View ArticleConfronting Your Importance: Aisha Sasha John’s ‘Thou’
Thou, by Aisha Sasha John (BookThug, 2014), surfs the porous border between the mind and physical reality; it does so in service of the question, what is a person? Or, more personally, who am I? ** I...
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