Nadia Lines
The truth lines my throat like a cold.
My round mouthed nan is being
mildly homophobic in that
product-of-their-time kind of way.
My granddad leans to me, a willow
arching over a river, and whispers
‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol
is the saddest poem I’ve ever read.’
‘Yes,’ I say ‘Yes’.
Nadia Lines is a nineteen-year-old poet from Hertfordshire. She is currently reading English at the University of Cambridge. She was a 2019 Foyle Young Poet of the Year, and a winner of the 2019 Orwell Youth Prize and the 2020 Tower Poetry Competition. She loves Keats.
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