Jacqueline is back with a new poem titled ‘Favouritism’
All in Poetry
Void/Your Puppet
Marygrace Wrabel shares two heart-wrenching poems with us.
No escape
Lindsay shares her piece ‘No Escape’
Circe makes a Sunday roast
Elspeth shares a luminous poem drawing on mythology
The Way of the Stones
Nance shares with us an example of active imagination in her piece The Way of the Stones
Duality
Megan O’Rourke shares her striking poem ‘Duality’
Those words live in my body. Those words live
In their second poem for LCA, Elizabeth George walks us through the intricacies of having to painstakingly explain to someone how they can try make us feel ‘safe’ in a world doused in violence. Ultimately, they bring us to a place where we realise this someone was never ‘safe’ to begin with.
Men That Make Me Feel Fucking Sick
Elizabeth George kicks off our Autumn/Winter series with a searing poem taking down abusive men in their poem “Men That Make Me Feel Fucking Sick”.
The Victim/Garden Song
Our Spring series ends as it began, with a beautiful collection of poems from Jacqueline
What I Want to Tell Them When they Ask “What Do You Want us to Do?”
Aim talks us through their internal thoughts in response to those who judge how they’ve dealt with their trauma
She was Born for a Reason / Toxic Lies
GG’s powerful series of poems.
Card Games / Street Signs / The Grave
‘Anonymous Cat Mom’, who shared with us their story ‘Job Insecurity’ last week, follows up with these three striking poems.
One Night a Bad Thing Happened
Steph Holloway’s touching poem shines light on the strength we should feel in our survival through the bad nights.
Art by Rhea Hanlon.
Seven Years
Seven Years responds to the idea that our skin cells are replaced every seven years and this is a body trying to navigate both the trauma of unwanted touch and a world that is not focused on supporting victims.
Felt/Love
Jacqueline shares with us two poems, ‘Felt’ and ‘Love’.
Art by Rhea Hanlon instagram.com/rhea_hanlon_art
Johanna Hedva: Sick Woman Theory
Hedva, a genderfluid person who chronic illness has ‘come to’ (their words), intricately and beautifully puts into words what every person living with chronic illness, pain or trauma (especially those who are political/ activists) has needed to hear their whole lives. They lay out the need for SWT as an act of destroying all oppressive structures of society, and they push for a centring of all ‘Sick Women’ in all of our spaces (both physical and ideological).
An Open Letter to my Rapist...
‘When i come for you, the world won’t know. Only you. I will use words, i will use my intelligence, my kindness, my empathy and my strength to fight for something that is so much bigger than you.’ Morven shares with us her powerful words that decipher her persistance and the power she now holds over her past abuser.
Beauty
Morven Loh shares with us painful words about the night of their assault.