Poetry Portfolio
Please find below downloads of my work:
These may be printed out ‘as is’ for use in an academic classroom setting.
It ends like this…
It Ends Like This
From How to Wear a Skin by Louisa Adjoa Parker
he wonders why he hadn’t known
but perhaps he did…
One girl…
One Girl
From How to Wear a Skin by Louisa Adjoa Parker
Her skin is butterscotch Angel Delight
And her hair a nest of spun burnt sugar…
Kindness…
Photo: Deb Barnes - Unsplash
Kindness
Commended by the National Poetry Competition 2019
poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/kindness/
Instead of you dying, why don’t we go
for that walk, in the woods I couldn’t find…
Take back control…
Photo: Kamil Mehmood - Unsplash
Take Back Control
From How to Wear a Skin by Louisa Adjoa Parker
Take children from their mothers
wrap them in chains and brand their skin . . .
Land, real and imagined…
Land Real and Imagined
From How to Wear a Skin by Louisa Adjoa Parker
Yes, I am from here, really,
but also from there. My feet . . .
Velvet Dresses…
Photo: Ben Collins - Unsplash
Velvet Dresses
From Salt-sweat Tears by Louisa Adjoa Parker
I want to climb under Dorset’s skin
curl up in her folds, wrap her around me . . .
Commissioned & Writing Residency Poems
Under a Turquoise Sky, a poetry film celebrating women refugees and asylum seekers, commissioned by Folio Theatre
Yellow Light, written for the Quay Words residency
A Georgian mansion in Cornwall, Midsummer, commissioned by Your Local Arena
When men plant trees (scroll down page), written in response to James Barnor’s archive, commissioned by Serpentine Gallery
Let the river sing, (text), written as part of the Quay Words residency. Film & Quay Words podcast.
Sweet as moonlight, commissioned by the RAMM Museum, Exeter
We know these words, (film), commissioned by State of Emergency