A Break in the Waves

Arresting visceral poem about sex and male desire from award winning poet Andrew MacMillan for Push the Boat Out, Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival

Roger is a writer who has performed worldwide. He is the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2019 and the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020, shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2020 and shortlisted for The OCM Bocas Poetry Prize , The Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, highly commended by the Forward Poetry Prize. His latest collection ‘A Portable Paradise’ was a Newstatesman book of the year. He was chosen by Decibel as one of 50 writers who have influenced the black-British writing canon. He is an alumnus of The Complete Works and he has toured extensively with the British Council.

Janette Ayachi reads 'Adriatic Sea' for our series, Break in the Waves.

A new poem from award winning indigenous Australian poet Tony Birch's forthcoming collection (2021), Whisper Songs.

Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Leith. Their collection Tonguit (2015) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and The Games (2018) for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and Saltire Prize for Best Collection. They have a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. Their theatre has toured globally, including to Forest Fringe (UK), NTI (Latvia), Verb Festival (Aotearoa) and Teszt (Romania). Their performance What We Owe was picked by the Guardian's best-of-the-Fringe 2013 roundup – in the “But Is It Art?” category. www.harryjosephine.com

Poetry and Me, a poem by Hannah Lavery for Push the Boat Out

A series of short poems from leading poets, when we all need poetry more than ever, curated by Push the Boat Out.

A series of short poems from leading poets, when we all need poetry more than ever, curated by Push the Boat Out.

A series of short poems from leading poets, when we all need poetry more than ever, curated by Push the Boat Out.

A series of short poems from leading poets, when we all need poetry more than ever, curated by Push the Boat Out.