Ancci (Kamaldeen Moyosore Arasi)

2000 Blacks by the Nigerian poet Ajibola Tolase is a typical debut collection of poems. Typical of books I ha…

Are elegies fundamentally love poems? Or are love poems always tinged with elegy, knowing they contain their …

To Posterity When books have all seized up like the books in graveyards And reading and even speaking have be…

The least one could say about Roseline Mgbodichima’s A Body in Spice is that it’s charged, body-electric, dar…

Getting to Bantustan Blues by Tjizembua Tjizuku in Kumi Na Moja, the 2025 poetry chapbook box set from Africa…

When you open Reuben Gelley Newman’s debut full-length collection of poems, Dear Dear, you do not even get to…

The paradoxical essence of Jonathan Chan’s bright sorrow is rooted in the Eastern Orthodoxy idea of “charmoly…

The Poetics of Resistance – The history of the poetry of resistance is a well-rounded one, filled with both a…

African Urban Echoes, edited by Jide Salawu and Rasaq Malik Gbolahan - Phenomenology of African Cities

Pedagogy of the Maimed but Luminous - On Chiwenite Onyekwelu’s “Lute Man”

Reginald Shepherd's Poetry of Desire

A Poet’s Coy Inventiveness - “Is It Beauty That We Owe?” by Janice N. Harrington

On Leila Chatti’s “Equinox”

A Review of Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi – Chaos Refined

The Universal Amplified – A Review of At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets, edited by Antoine…

Objectively, this opening assertion is hard to agree with; three and four are more proper as the numbers repr…

Red upon red upon red – Review of Carey Salerno’s The Hungriest Stars

It’s Always Been Love – A Review of Water by Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

A Bastion of Clinicality - On Dami Ajayi’s Clinical Blues

Ryan Ruby’s Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry situates itself within the tradition of a…

As the overriding sentiment in the book intimates, the book turns out to be nothing but a ceremony of her sur…

Sponsored by African Poetry Book Fund and edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, New-Generation African Poets…

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Feranmi Ariyo's I Watch You Disappear articulates illness, grief, hope and faith, blending prosaic narrative …