Kalakuta Republic 3rd August 2020
This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria’s military regime in the late 1980s.
Blogs in August 2020
Set in Stone 27th July 2020
Carey’s poems tell stories—as dreams, as memories, as rituals or ceremonies. He embraces the mystery of nostalgia, worn and cemented by time, the haunted remembrances that string a life together. These are poems of place and of people (real...
Venture To The Interior 6th July 2020
Summoned to Whitehall in 1949, Laurens van der Post was told that in old British Central Africa there were two large tracts of country that London didn’t really know anything about, and could he go in there on foot...
Of Chameleons and Gods 6th July 2020
A volume of poetry written by a Malawi prisoner of conscience during his ten-year imprisonment.
Last of the Sweet Bananas: New & Selected Poems 6th July 2020
Because he was a radical poet, Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial or charge by the dictator Hastings Banda of Malawi for nearly four years. The themes of his poetry range from the search for a sense of dignity...
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