We are delighted to showcase three poems from Luke’s pamphlet On What Could Sting which was runner up in the 2023 New Poets Prize.
From a jellyfish like a ‘tumour of salt and sand’ to a meditation on Putin’s penis and toxic masculinity – these poems are full of surprising images and wide-ranging in their interrogations – of class, sexuality, homophobia and masculinity.
– Kim Moore
Luke Worthy is a queer poet and fiction writer living between Sheffield and Amsterdam. His work has been published in Poetry Wales,fourteen poems and Broken Sleep’s Masculinity: an anthology of modern voices (2024). In 2023 he was commissioned by the British Library to write a piece of children’s literature and was Runner-up in the The Poetry Business’s New Poets Prize. Luke is a member of Hive Poetry Collective.
All Appears Ordinary
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The Hoarders
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