Welcome to Hundreds and Thousands, a poetry podcast showcasing the best of today’s nonbinary and trans poets.

This week’s poems are from Oska Von Ruhland. Oska is a nonbinary Cardiff-based author, blogger and fashion eccentric, with a background in theatre. They have two published short story collections: "Stories to Stay Alive To" and "The God Killer and other Tales of Chaos". Currently they are developing queer Welsh heritage projects for the National Museum of Wales, as well as publishing their ongoing illustrated webstory "Want To Forget You". Their work often focuses on themes of community, found family, trauma and death.

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Hundreds & Thousands Podcast┃Episode Six - Oska Von Ruhland - Haiku

Joelle Taylor chats to spoken word artist Salena Godden about the UK's spoken word poetry scene, past present and future, as well as her experience with the recent BBC iPlayer documentary 'We Belong Here'. Salena also reads and discusses her poem 'Titanic', tells us the best and worst gig she's ever been to, and more. To connect with more poetry, visit poetrysociety.org.uk

Joelle Taylor in conversation with Salena Godden

This week's poem comes from our upcoming 2020 poet Afshan D'souza-Lodhi who's debut re:desire will be released 25th June. 

Poem text:

Are we?

we are the generation of women
who's fathers were around but
who's mothers ran houses raised children fed armies cleaned up your messes and your messes and your messes and never seemed to get into any messes herself.
we are the generation that holds
each other in silence, across
the internet and in every single cliche
we are talked about but never allowed to live in.
we are the generation of radical
honesty, the kind that doesn't let a friend
leave the house with their skirt tucked
into their knickers, but the kind
that lies with kindness and discretion.
we are the resistance, the ones
that grew up on twitter
and protested regimes across borders.
we use memes to politicise and get quoted
by acamedics theorising about our lives
we are the ones that build houses
using youtube, we fix lamps and boilers and that leak underneath the tap.
we google and facebook and ask
the neighbourhood group
if anyone has a spare pot of paint to
do up the garden and on-up the annoying neighbour.
we are the children
of those that inherited books as gifts.
we pride ourselves in packed
bookcases of books we've never read.
we use our time wisely, to write poetry, to
sing loudly in the kitchen while making the buns
our mothers used to bake for us kids
we buy flour and eggs and forget to buy
yeast but facetime with home will save us and the buns.
we are-
and we will be-
its just a matter of how.

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Afshan D'souza -Lodhi

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Afshan D'souza -Lodhi

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