I’ve Been Flipping the Pages of Your Quran
“I’ve been flipping the pages of your Quran / so it looks like you’ve been reading in bed. / I read it too, under the tree that got so hot / we used to hose it down in the summer.”
Shereen Akhtar
Shereen Akhtar is a South-Asian heritage poet and writer based in London, UK. She has had work published or forthcoming in Ambit Magazine, The Masters Review and Magma Poetry among others. She was longlisted for the Women Poets Prize 2020. She is currently at work on her first novel with the help of a London Writers Award.