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Thorns in Her Flesh: Illustrated poet...
Thorns in Her Flesh is a revision of Eshe Benson’s first book, The Sun and Her Rising. The book is a line-illustrated collection of poems by a black woman on love that is often like a rose flower; magnificent in its beauty but burdened with pricking thorns. It is also about the realities of family relationships and the socio-cultural, spiritual, economic, and political complexities of life in the African context.
From The Eyes Of A Child by Cornelius...
From The Eyes Of A Child, a poetry collection by Cornelius Kipkosgei, digs into themes such as childhood, love and marriage, war, the environment among other contemporary themes.
It fashions itself as a shelf of satire, sarcasm and dark humour.
The author opines that the littlest experiences are what makes a man. This book on various spectrums of life is worth a read dear reader.
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here.
i dive into the well of my body
and end up in another world
everything i need
already exists in me
there’s no need
to look anywhere else
- home
When I learned how to walk and other ...
Brief Summary
'When I learned how to walk & other poems', is a compilation of 17 poems written by myself (I have been a performing spoken word poet in Nairobi for the past 5 years, and this is my debut poetry book).
The poems in this book span a wide range of topics, from African power, love, identity, mental health, and the inevitability of heartbreak.
The book is a small one, 61 pages, however, it contains poems that are meant to be re-read as many times as the reader wishes. The book is largely in English, and contains a few lines in Swahili, with one of the poems being entirely in Swahili.
ISBN:9789914700473
Author: Mumbi Macharia
Abolish Everything: A Poetic Manifest...
This debut collection of poems by Sungu Oyoo marshals the creative expressions of the social and human rights activists amongst us. Our current times have witnessed unrelieved creative turbulences by comrades in the pursuit of just social order. These turbulences have mostly found expression in poetry—often in pithy, poignant and urgent forms of creative outbursts. The results have been varieties of poetry as spaces of resistance, struggle, and liberation. The resulting poems are the new barrels of the gun expressing anguish, yearnings, love, hopes and dreams of a new generation fervently seeking order, stability and justice, not only for themselves but for fellow comrades, families and society.
These poets show that the new generation of comrades is not only emerging from relative obscurity as once prophesied by Franz Fanon, but that their voices have arrived and taken centre stage in the struggle, redefining the times fast-forwarding the past, and bringing the future today. Tomorrow is here; look no further. Ours is only to applaud these fresh and vibrant voices in people’s struggles, not as mere observers or cheerleaders, but as comrades at arms. Where poems clear the way and new vistas in the struggle, comrades stand at ease and continue to wage the battle against want, our fighting spirits being well-fed and replenished by word and action.
This volume heralds their expressions as current and future voices through activist poetry and prose under the banner stewardship of Comrades Bookhouse.
Sunset Bliss and Other Poems By Colli...
*Sunset Bliss and Other Poems* by Collins Teurey Odera presents readers with an intuitive journey through the highest points of the human spirit, the deepest depths of their souls, with, a blend of immeasurable imagination and captivating choice of words.
Teurey paints a portrait of crude emotions, aspirations of dreams, and the inexpressible beauty of human interactions with every verse he pens.
From _"Flying Bird"_ where dreams leap into the blues, to the gentle touch of " _Twilight's Encounter_ ", where romance clings of a shaky twig of loyalty, each poem acutely mirrors real life happenings.
Through Teurey's penmanship, readers are indulged in the intricacies of love, family feuds, and the transitory beauty of living.
*Sunset Bliss and Other Poems* is not just a collection, it is life's journey of self reflection and moments that are captured and glued to the reader's mind.
Allow yourself to be lost in Teurey's generous wordcraft, his seductive build up and most importantly, his mighty and unparalleled magnitudes of art that will not only fill your soul, but also redesign your perspective of the universe.
Salt and Gravity: Illustrated poems b...
A Rose and Its Thorns by Valery Chebet
The Life of Koko by Geoffrey Matata
Many people have gone through a childhood trauma of some kind, at some point in their lives, if not we all know of someone who has gone through it. The question is did we just grow up and out of it? Or simply forgive and forget about it or did we seek true forgiveness and reconciliation? Did we really heal?
Using poetry in story-telling in the Life of Koko, Jeff Matata, saves the reader on many words and employs hard punch lines and rhyme to portray a deep and detailed stoy of a woman wino endures hard life in her marriage for the love of her children.
The words are carefully chosen like spices to give the bitter sweet of life in the rural western Kenya.
A Season of Blood: Poems from Kenyan ...
The conditions that prisoners in Kenya endure are extremely barbaric. Every morning at 5 a.m., male prisoners are ordered out of the cells stark naked for internal body searches. The guards search their mouths and armpits, ears and nostrils. They pull, twist and squeeze their genitals.
They order the prisoners to face the walls with their legs spread apart to examine their anuses for concealed weapons, money and other contraband. They use sharp sticks to probe the prisoner's rectums. In a sense, the guards are more interested in prisoners' buttocks than in the search.
They make sexual remarks such as, "Look at this one, his buttocks are two mountains, it is difficult to mount him...and look at this one, his arsehole is sharped like a woman's vagina...This one has a soft arse like his mother..." After the brutal searches, the prisoners are beaten and kicked. These monstrous acts are repeated every morning. It is a humiliating and degrading.
Maina was arrested on June 2, 1982 by dictator Moi's regime for the crime of thought. He was imprisoned for six years with hard labor. Despite the brutal isolation and censorship, physical and psychological torture, Maina made friends with a few prison guards who supplied him writing material and smuggled everything g he wrote out of prison and took it to Mumbi, his wife.
The poems in this text were part of the written material smuggled out of prison. The themes of poems express the horrors of imprisonment, the brutality and viciousness of the Kenyan authoritarian regime, the intensification of the struggle for democracy.
The Moon Is Made Of Green Cheese by A...
From a writer who was born on William Shakespeare's birthday comes this delightful collection of poems crafted over several years.
'The Moon is Made of Green Cheese' is a literary safari that will take you from the world's beaches to the depths of the cosmos, from human relationships to the feeding habits of crocodiles, from philosophical thoughts to love in the time of malaria...
Like a pot of East Africa pilau, there's something here for everyone, and if this critically acclaimed collection doesn't become an international literary hit, then the world is upside down and the moon is made of green cheese!
How to identify the proverbial fool b...
SHADOWS & SOULS – AN ANTHO...
Rage and Bloom by Lena Grace Anyuolo
Moonlight: A Night of a Thousand Word...
This is a collection of 140 full-length poems with poetic quotes and short poems as interludes, set in the deepest and darkest core of life but illuminated for the soul. The book is a reflection of the mind, a mirror of hope, where thoughts crack the skull and heart strikes the chords to give life the sweetest melody.
It's a river that flows downstream and is full of memories, a stream of courage, a spring of love, a chandelier of nocturnal adventures and an academy of words.
It's a three in one anthology of poems that touches on the themes of Vitae (Life), Amorem (Love) and Luci (Light/hope). It is a 442-page book.
Echoes of Fading Memories
'Echoes of Fading Memories' is like whispers from the past, slowly fading away.
It's about moments filled with emotions—love, pain, and joy—echoing softly like distant bells in the quiet night.
Let's treasure what we have together right now,
Since,
In the night's quiet embrace,
So many memories threaten to slip away - Unaware of their essence!
In this sanctuary of beautifully crafted verses, their echoes shall stay.
Thoughts of a Patient Man Breaking an...
What Does a Man Want? by Muthoni Liki...
Brief Summary
In this book, author Muthoni Gacharija Likimani explores with feeling the continuing struggle of women to come to grips with the demands of their men. Men are mysterious and inaccessible. Their irrepressible egoism drives the women to total despair and apathy. What should a woman do to understand her man?
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