Astra Papachristodoulou is a graduate from the MA Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway with focus in the experimental tradition across poetry, visual art and performance. She has given individual, collaborative, and interactive readings at a range of events in Slovenia, Vienna, Greece and the UK, including the European Poetry Festival, Free Verse Poetry Book Fair and IGNOR Festival. Astra's work has been exhibited at the National Poetry Library (Southbank Centre) and The Poetry Society, and her poetry has appeared in magazines such as The Tangerine and 3:am Magazine. She's the author of five poetry pamphlets including Almost a Nightmare (Sampson Low, 2017), Astropolis (Haverthorn Press, 2018) and Clockwork (Ampersand Publishing, 2018), and her forthcoming pamphlet Stargazing will be published by Guillemot Press in September 2019.
Wilderness
myriad ^ paths
myriad ^ seeds
myriad ^ spores
myriad ^ streams
myriad ^ velums
myriad ^ women
myriad ^ whispers
myriad ^ sighs
myriad ^ crescents
myriad ^ spires
myriad ^ wounds
myriad ^ senses
myriad ^ eyes
under cold moon
maple-cotton
flux on flux
Heliolatry
the more the valley
ripens in harvest
the more the vast
harvests the valley
vast, it reaches
every corner & far
it reaches – vast
the harvest is vast
it reaches more & more
the harvest is covered
in varied corners – it
grows & it covers more
& more every time
as it ripens – the more
the valley, the vaster
the harvest – it grows
when all things ripen
& the valley is glad
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