Poetry

I am a Cape Malay poet based in Edinburgh.

 

I am interested in the broadest concept of heritage: personal and political (writing into my muslim and Cape Malay family inheritance); cultural/ritual (drawing on my career in heritage and museums and on ideas around decolonisation); natural and ancient (inspired by nature, gardens and the extraordinary landscapes of Scotland). I am interested in the traces and tensions that are carried from one context to another.

 

I was longlisted for the Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poets Development Scheme 2024.

 

You can find my poems in the publications shown below. 

Yacht

 

a mandorla of lapping boards

the sun privatised

 

a compass point

gently turning to tidal time

 

the single mast a moored pin

that holds their harbour fast

 

© Reyahn King

 

This poem and Throwing your wallet into the Thames are published with thanks in stringsmag.com issue 3 'tongue for water' May 2025

 

 

LINKS

 

https://stringsmag.com/strings-3-reyahn-king