I will write it. I will love it. I will think, “this-is-it.” Every time, I will think this-is-it.
“Here are words that will take you out on a date, with emotions you would want to hang on your heart’s hallways. The greatest achievement of this work is that it leads one on an expedition into the deepest part of oneself.”
Iliya writes immensely on even the most trivial of feelings, sensations and ideas in a novel and amusing ways using witty aphorisms and engaging vocabularies.
Nnadi Samuel brims with weird imaginative creativity. His poems are hybrids of contemporary and traditional images, daring images. He has a good grip of language—salty missile, sweating bullets—damn!
there is healing in the
embrace of quietude by the night –
memories unspooling from bodies like
smoke from an ember.
This is the truth.
you can’t run away from your body
even when it repels itself
You can’t flee a form bestowed unto itself
even when it creaks with unhinged memories
& you search for exit doors in the pores of
your skin
You will be at once quenched and refreshed, droplets of Summer rain on your tongue so bittersweet.
Naimah puts cupid to trial in the sequence with which she braided through poems like search, no strings attached, second chance and other interesting pieces extoling the divine, decrying transgressions and musing about home and humanity in general
