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  • iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Poet directory and quarterly journal iamb is inspired by The Poetry Archive. Hear contemporary poets read three of their own poems. about poets Celebrating 5 years Feb 1st 2020~2025 20 waves • 320 poets • 960 poems Read the latest poets © 2025

  • poets | wave 20 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    wave twenty winter 2024 Daragh Fleming Dion O'Reilly Graham Clifford Jane Ayres Kevin Grauke Laura Lewis-Waters Marie Marchand Pam Thompson Polly Walshe Rachel Smith Rowan Lyster Sharon Phillips Simon Alderwick T S S Fulk Wendy Pratt

  • poets | wave 6 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 6 of iamb. wave six summer 2021 Andy Nuttall April Yee Ben Ray Charlotte Ansell Dominic Leonard Douglas Tawn Elizabeth Langemak Kathryn Bevis Kimchi Lai Michelle Penn Monica Cure Nathan Dennis Pascale Petit Róisín Ní Neachtain Shaw Worth

  • Jane Ayres | wave 20 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Hear poet Jane Ayres read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you. Jane Ayres back next the poet Jane Ayres re-discovered poetry while studying part-time for a Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent. Soon after, she was longlisted for the 2020 Rebecca Swift Foundation Women Poets’ Prize. The following year, Jane was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, and became a winner of the Laurence Sterne Prize (she also picked up an Honourable Mention in the 2022 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest ). Twice nominated for Best of the Net, once for The Pushcart Prize, Jane has had her poetry published in more than 100 publications. She's also read her work for Eat the Storms , Upload , The Blue Door , Ó Bhéal , Medway River Lit and iamb . Her first collection, edible , appeared in 2022. Her most recent work is micro-chap, my lost womb still sings to me . the poems Giving my ex-boss a hand job for £20 (mates rates) 00:00 / 00:44 His request took me by surprise since I’d only invited him round for coffee making it clear there was to be no more sex. But at the time I was working four part-time jobs to pay my rent and cover the bills. It really would be easy money (I told myself) and I was right because it took my gloved hand just two minutes to achieve the desired outcome – less time than it took to write this poem. Not a bad rate of pay and to be honest, I wondered if he might want to make it a regular thing, although he said afterwards he usually had it done professionally. final witness 00:00 / 00:38 this thing you did this thing this thing you did that splinters needles gnaws claws caws calls you out calls you in burrows deep deeper seeps leaks loops leaches feeds this thing that taunts haunts hunts preys takes fright invites the want to do a good thing the right thing because the time you had the times we had the time you have dissolving wilting tilting twisting this thing this thing we did requiem for an age-inappropriate lover 00:00 / 00:55 i see you my body becomes cotton & the trickling wound will not heal or shut the knot in my back is spreading loaded with sticky expectation wearing my coming & going dress / firefly-bright a handful of knitted moments / charred seeds just a little crush in the bluebelled forest hollow promises made easily the curve of your cheek / a buried moon / bone-white this hand / nettle-woven / pinking the sinuous hive blurring the tongue-choked lines scraping the chalky narrative i’ll walk for miles to keep our secret Publishing credits Giving my ex-boss a hand job for £20 (mates rates): The Friday Poem (May 19th 2023) final witness/requiem for an age-inappropriate lover: Cōnfingō Publishing (Spring 2021)

  • poets | wave 10 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 10 of iamb. wave ten summer 2022 Annick Yerem Bill Sutton Elisabeth Kelly Elizabeth M Castillo Emma Kemp Gerry Stewart Jay Whittaker Ken Cockburn Kitty Donnelly Michael McGill Penelope Shuttle Richard Jeffrey Newman Ruth Taaffe Shiksha S Dheda Simon Middleton

  • poets | wave 18 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 18 of iamb. wave eighteen summer 2024 A R Williams Deborah Harvey Hilary Menos Isabelle Kenyon Julieanne Larick Liam Bates Mims Sully Nicole Tallman Niki Strange Phillip Crymble Rachel Carney Sinéad Griffin Thomas Zimmerman Warrick Wynne Yvonne Marjot

  • poets | wave 15 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 15 of iamb. wave fifteen autumn 2023 Abigail Lim Kah Yan Adam Cairns Andy Breckenridge C Daventry Dominic Weston Elisabeth Sennitt Clough Emma Lee Gaynor Kane Grace Uitterdijk Julie Easley Lesley James Luke Palmer Lynn Valentine Özge Lena Wendy Allen

  • poets | wave 14 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 14 of iamb. wave fourteen summer 2023 Alice Stainer Aysegul Yildirim Dave Garbutt Deborah Finding Devjani Bodepudi Ed Garvey Long Hannah Linden Ian McMillan J L M Morton Jamie Woods Jerm Curtin May Chong Ramona Herdman Valerie Bence Victoria Punch

  • poets | wave 11 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 11 of iamb. wave eleven autumn 2022 Charles G Lauder Jr Daniel Hinds David Butler Heidi Beck James Nixon Jan Harris Kittie Belltree Lauren Thomas Lisa Tulfer Lydia Kennaway Maggs Vibo Nichola Deane Rick Dove Sam Henley Smith Susan Fuchtman

  • poets | wave 16 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 16 of iamb. wave sixteen winter 2023 Alan Buckley Conor Kelly Dorian Nightingale Faye Alexandra Rose Holly Peters Isra Hassan J-T Kelly JP Seabright Jen Feroze Jenny Wong Matthew Stewart Pascale Potvin Phil Vernon Rebecca Goss Sarah Connor

  • poets | wave 8 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 8 of iamb. wave eight winter 2021 Beth Brooke Catrice Greer Cora Dessalines Fiona Sampson Hilary Otto JC Niala Leeanne Quinn Lucy Holme Marcelle Newbold Natalie Crick Oliver Comins Peter Scalpello Robert Harper Suchi Govindarajan Zoe Brooks

  • poets | wave 13 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 13 of iamb. wave thirteen spring 2023 Anila Arshad-Mehmood Anna Milan Ben Blench Courtenay Schembri Gray Dale Booton Darren J Beaney Di Slaney Emily Cotterill James McConachie Jude Marr Mary Ford Neal Michael Conley Rachel Deering Sam J Grudgings Stephanie Clare Smith

  • poets | wave 9 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 9 of iamb. wave nine spring 2022 Alexandra Citron Barney Ashton-Bullock Catherine Graham Charlotte Oliver Craig Smith James Giddings Jonathan Davidson Judith Kingston Kyle Potvin Liz Houchin Mark McGuinness Nóra Blascsók Olivia Dawson Rachael Clyne Radka Thea Otípková

  • poets | wave 12 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 12 of iamb. wave twelve winter 2022 Caitlin Stobie Doreen Duffy Jenny Mitchell Jeremy Wikeley Jim Newcombe Jinny Fisher Leanne Moden Louise McStravick Ruth Wiggins Sadie Maskery Samantha DeFlitch Sue Butler Susie Campbell Thomas March Zannah Kearns

  • poets | wave 17 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

    Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 17 of iamb. wave seventeen spring 2024 Carol J Forrester David Pecotić Eilín de Paor Helen Kay Ilisha Thiru Purcell Iris Anne Lewis Jonathan Humble Lesley Curwen Margaret Dennehy Nina Parmenter Sarah Holland Steve Smart Sue Spiers Thomas McColl Tracey Rhys

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