Gimme Gimme
They asked for light;
I gave them day.
They said, ‘Too bright!’;
so I gave them night.
Luigi Coppola (www.LuigiCoppolaPoetry.blogspot.co.uk) is a teacher, poet and avid rum and coke drinker. Selected for Southbank Centre’s New Poets Collective 2023-24, Poetry Archive Worldview winner’s list, Bridport Prize shortlist, Ledbury and National Poetry Competition longlist, he also produces and performs music as ‘The Only Emperor’.
'The Only Emperor' is the band name of Luigi Coppola, a poet producing sounds and sights to showcase their words to the world www.linktr.ee/TheOnlyEmperor
Spotify with select singles, YouTube for live and lyric videos,
Live Performance Videos:
Other Links:
Youtube: Luigi Coppola Poetry Videos
Twitter: @MrLuigiCoppola
Instagram: @poetrypreacher
Art & Words and Words & Art blog, a collaboration with Mark Shuttleworth
‘Chibi Luigi’ drawing by Keeley Coppola, other art and info at keeleycoppola.blogspot.co.uk
Online Poems:
Buddy Came Back From Outer Space And Buddy Could Talk
Published at London Grip Mar 2023
Link to lyric video on YouTube
Also released on Spotify
3 Poems at Rattle:
My Mother was a Dancer and She Never Looked Back
FIND
My Animal Understudy Replaced Me in the School Production of The Tempest
Our Evolution
Published in issue 20 of Antiphon
Published in Structo 20 Spring 2020
after ‘Pollice Verso’ by Jean-Léon Gérôme
A collaborative poem by Swithun Cooper, Luigi Coppola & Michael McKimm
Published in issue 78 of Magma, 2020
One Coat Over Two Heads
Published at The Poetry Shed June 2019
Ntil
Published in issue 72 of Abyss & Apex, Oct 2019
ONE HAND CLAPPING
2 poems: Race to the Top and On The Back Of My Hand, 2020
Slapsies
The First Snowing on Howard and Anne
Jump into the inches and forget how to swim
& When I Have Time
Four poems published at Softblow, April 2019
Winter Sale
Appears in The First Line, Volume 22, Issue 1, Spring 2020
Death Writes an Open Letter
& The Pigeon
Two poems with illustrations by Mark Shuttleworth
Accepted for publication in Barzakh Magazine 2020
My Life Crawled In Front of My Eyes
Published at Visual Verse Jan 2019
Francis Finds Himself in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
& Sorry We Missed You
Published in issue 47 of Otoliths (image by Mark Shuttleworth)
Man in Mouth
Published by The Nervous Breakdown July 2020
The Anthrophobe Meets The Bashibazouk
Published at the Uut Poetry ezine
Old World Map
after Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus, 1539
Published by The Ekphrastic Review
Gimme Gimme
The poem can be read here (to of the page)
also published by The Asses of Parnassus
The Paris Agreement
The poem can be read at Poets Reading the News
Section Responsibility
The poem can be read here in Snakeskin, issue 231
Listen to a reading of the poem here
Coasters
Published at One Sentence Poems April 2017
Business Trip,
Cædmon Sings a Different Tune
& First Book Blues
The 3 poems can be read here in morphrog 14
My Family's Guide To Manners On First Meetings
The poem can be read
Listen to a reading of the poem here
The Rat and Pigeon Just Before Dawn
& Pronghorn
The two poems can be read here in
The Crack
The poem can be read here at Ink, Sweat and Tears
The Harvester
The poem was chosen for Ink, Sweat and Tears 2018 12 Days of Christmas Event
Some Streets
Published at Ink, Sweat and Tears June 2019
Self-Portrait
The poem can be read here at Algebra of Owls
The Nothings
The poem can be read at The Strange Poetry webpage
Listen to a reading of the poem here
From Down Here
Published in Fourteen, issue 9
Ode to Chess
after A Hopeless Case by George Goodwin Kilburne
The poem can be read here at The Ekphrastic Review
ON THE BUSES WITH PHILIP LARKIN
&
‘TEACHER LIGHTED A CANDLE IN CLASS!’
Both poems published in The High Window Poetry Review
December 2017 (image by Mark Shuttleworth)
Some Days
a found poem accepted for publication by UnLost Journal, 2017
Someone Put Bubble Bath in the Town Centre Fountain
The poem can be read in issue 31 of Gold Dust
Baggage
Published by Atrium, March 2019
IX Things to do in Hell on a Friday Night
Published August 2019 in Riggwelter 24
(high frequency compound words)
A found poem published at YES POETRY Oct 2019
Print Only Publications
Included in 'The Tree Line' anthology
Included in Magma 65
Included in Iota 90
Included in Orbis 157 Autumn 2011
Mixer can also be found on my poetry leaflet
Included in The Frogmore Papers 81
Published in South 46
Published in Equinox 25
Published in Anon 8
Art by Mark Shuttleworth
Published in THE SHOp Summer 2013
