Mona Arshi – Sabotage

Festival Spoken Word

Verve Poetry Festival, 16-19th February 2017

March 25, 2017 Editor Amerah Saleh, Anna Freeman, Anthony Anaxagorou, Bernhard Christianssen, Bethany Slinn, Bohdan Piasecki, Charley Genever, Clive Birnie, Cynthia Miller, Daljit Nagra, Dean Atta, Deanna Rodger, Emma Wright, Fran Lock, Hannah Silva, Helen Mort, Hibaq Osman, Isobel Dixon, Jane Commane, Jess Green, Jonathan Davidson, Kareem Parkins-Brown, Katrina Naomi, Kim Moore, Luke Kennard, Mona Arshi, Nina Lewis, Raymond Antrobus, Richard O'Brien, Roz Goddard, Sabrina Mahfouz, Sarah Howe, Skye Hawkins, Spoken Word, Stuart Bartholomew, Susannah Dickie, Toby Campion, Vanessa Kisuule, Verve Poetry Festival, Waterstones

-Reviewed by Nina Lewis– I love poetry festivals, this new one promised a marked difference. One of the leading principles of

Anthology Poetry

Campaign In Poetry ed. by Rachel Piercey & Emma Wright

May 7, 2015May 14, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Anna Kisby, Campaign In Poetry, Clare Pollard, Ellie Danak, Emma Wright, Ewan Stevenson, Holly Hopkins, James Trevelyan, Luke Kennard, Mona Arshi, Rachel Long, Rachel Piercey, Rosie Miles, Sohini Basak, Stephanie Arsoska, The Emma Press

– Reviewed by Sohini Basak – Strikingly, the poems in Campaign in Poetry are as much about contesting lack of concern about democracy as