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The University of Edinburgh's three creative writing prizes, open for 2024 submissions
 
Carl Alexandersson: Some Time Afterwards

Carl Alexandersson: Some Time Afterwards

Runner Up for the 2022 Grierson Verse Prize

Carl Alexandersson (he/him) is a queer spoken word poet and writer, based in Edinburgh. He was selected for the BBC Words First programme in 2021, awarded the UniSlam Slambassadors Award in 2020, and shortlisted for the Wolves Lit Fest Poetry Competition in 2022. His work has been published in Atrium Poetry, Ink Sweat & Tears, Impossible Archetype, and more.

Connect with Carl

Twitter: @CarlAlex97

Some Time Afterwards 

some plants need to be cut back to grow. 

sometimes I wish you hadn’t gone           but 

some days the sun shines          and 

some November nights reveal starlit skies. 

  

sometimes I wish you hadn’t gone           but 

some stars are the suns to planets like ours             and 

some November nights reveal a sky so cold it shivers. 

some plants recover from cold shocks, but their leaves do not. 

  

some stars are the suns to planets like ours. 

some days a billion suns shine at once            and 

some plants grow new leaves. 

some plants need to be cut back to grow. 

Carl Alexandersson: Some Time Afterwards / Writing Prizes by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0

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