poet – Page 6 – Oskar Leonard

Rip Out The Pages, Burn The Textbook

Another poem this week, and it’s another one that I wrote for uni as well! This one is a sort of melding of the idea of personal history and history as a subject (i.e. being taught in school), with a ton of different images rolled up into one poem just for you. I hope you enjoy it!

Worship

I’ve got another poem for you this week! We’re creeping slowly closer to Halloween (even though it’s still a bit away) so I thought a horror-themed poem might be a good idea! Worship is another one that I wrote for university, and I hope that you enjoy reading it!

Numbers, Numbers, Numbers…

I’ve got another poem for you this week! Keeping with the theme of the past few weeks, this is another one that I wrote for uni, and I hope that it will be particularly poignant to anyone who’s ever been stuck on hold on the phone – which is, in all likelihood, most people. Anyway, here’s the poem!

A Raging Blood-Blush

This is another poem that I wrote for uni, but just a short one this week – with some attention paid to alliteration, which you’ll see in just a moment! I feel like this one has the same sort of vibes as the poems in Aleatory Poetry and perhaps Commute to an extent, so if you enjoy this one then feel free to give those a look-over too.

There Are No Bears In Ormskirk

This week’s poem is a light-hearted one that I am delighted to say was published in Active Muse’s Varsha 2024 Poetry Collection, and which I also had the opportunity to read out at Wigan Pride this past Saturday. I did want to upload the recording of that here, but it turns out I can’t add videos to these posts directly, so I’ll likely be uploading it to my X/Twitter account and then linking that to the Press page like I did for my 2022 performance.

The Feeding of Memories

Continuing the theme from the past few weeks, I’ve got another poem for you today! There’s a bit of a clear pattern with this one, which I tried to have some fun with, although ‘fun’ doesn’t feel quite right to describe a poem with this sort of tone. In any case, I hope you find this one to be an interesting read!

Science Fiction

Leading on from last week, here’s another poem that I wrote in my final year of university which hasn’t yet been released anywhere else! Science Fiction is intended to have Frankenstein/body-snatching vibes with a fun, semi-romantic twist, so I hope you enjoy reading through this poem!

Honourable Nonsense

I’ve got a bit of a different poem for you this week – the text was taken from a Commons Chamber debate about the Crystal Palace in 1851, which you can read here if you’re curious. It’s been switched around and altered quite a bit, but it makes for an intriguing poem in my opinion, and I hope you think so too! This is another poem that I wrote for university, but I don’t think I’m going to submit it anywhere, so it can live here on the blog instead.

Roundabout (EL1)

Here’s another poem from my upcoming collection, Commute! Make sure you sign up to my newsletter to get a copy in your inbox when it releases on July 1st. But, for now, you can enjoy this poem from the collection inspired by one of the buses at my university!

Flutters Of Memory

This is actually a poem which I wrote for the FOURALL Magazine Spring Internship Program as a Creative Writing Intern, and it was featured in FOURALL Magazine’s sixth issue. I’m pretty proud of it, so I thought I’d post it here too. The poem focuses on memories and draws off of some of my fondest memories with old friends. I hope you enjoy it!