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Ancci (Kamaldeen Moyosore Arasi)

Ibadan, Nigeria
As seen in: Required Reading from Liberties, Substack, The Rumpus, The Adroit Journal, The Republic (Nigeria), Harvard Review, Cleveland Review of Books
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Individual Poems: A Review of 2000 Blacks by Ajibola Tolase | Yaba Left Review

Individual Poems: A Review of 2000 Blacks by Ajibola Tolase | Yaba Left Review

yabaleftreview.com — 2000 Blacks by the Nigerian poet Ajibola Tolase is a typical debut collection of poems. Typical of books I have read recently, the collection opens with an abecedarian as its introduction, giving enough attention to its supervening concerns as well as to its formal ambition.
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Form as Historical Memory: On D. M. Aderibigbe’s 82nd Division | The Rumpus

Form as Historical Memory: On D. M. Aderibigbe’s 82nd Division | The Rumpus

The Rumpus — Are elegies fundamentally love poems? Or are love poems always tinged with elegy, knowing they contain their own ending?
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Technological Disruption and Louis MacNeice’s “To Posterity”

Technological Disruption and Louis MacNeice’s “To Posterity”

Required Reading from Liberties — To Posterity When books have all seized up like the books in graveyards And reading and even speaking have been replaced By other, less difficult, media, we wonder if you Will find in flowers and fruit the same colour and taste They held for us for whom they were framed in words, And will your...
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A Body in Spice by Roseline Mgbodichima | ONLY POEMS

A Body in Spice by Roseline Mgbodichima | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — The least one could say about Roseline Mgbodichima’s A Body in Spice is that it’s charged, body-electric, daring, salty-confident, and that its affective resonance is uppercased by a certain frankness that comes about as a result of deep feeling that’s gone through a thorough self-analysis. But the most anyone could say starts from fascinating without an easy, clean end in sight...
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Bantustan Blues by Tjizembua Tjizuku | ONLY POEMS

Bantustan Blues by Tjizembua Tjizuku | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — Getting to Bantustan Blues by Tjizembua Tjizuku in Kumi Na Moja, the 2025 poetry chapbook box set from African Poetry Book Fund, felt like the first days of spring. However, those fresh and peaceable days did not last longer than coming to the meaning of bantustan...
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Dear Dear by Reuben Gelley Newman | ONLY POEMS

Dear Dear by Reuben Gelley Newman | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — When you open Reuben Gelley Newman’s debut full-length collection of poems, Dear Dear, you do not even get to the first poem to discover that music is an important part of the book. However, music is the subject, or one of the subjects, of the book only insofar as the tittle is merely an orthographic decoration...
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bright sorrow by Jonathan Chan | ONLY POEMS

bright sorrow by Jonathan Chan | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — The paradoxical essence of Jonathan Chan’s bright sorrow is rooted in the Eastern Orthodoxy idea of “charmolypê” which, according to the archpriest and theologian Fr. John Breck, is “variously translated [as] ‘bitter joy,’ ‘joyful mourning,’ or ’affliction that leads to joy.”...
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The Poetics of Resistance | ONLY POEMS

The Poetics of Resistance | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — The Poetics of Resistance – The history of the poetry of resistance is a well-rounded one, filled with both artistic beauties and pragmatic consequences...
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On African Urban Echoes, edited by Jide Salawu and Rasaq Malik Gbolahan | ONLY POEMS

On African Urban Echoes, edited by Jide Salawu and Rasaq Malik Gbolahan | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — African Urban Echoes, edited by Jide Salawu and Rasaq Malik Gbolahan - Phenomenology of African Cities
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Pedagogy of the Maimed but Luminous | ONLY POEMS

Pedagogy of the Maimed but Luminous | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — Pedagogy of the Maimed but Luminous - On Chiwenite Onyekwelu’s “Lute Man”
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Ancci: On The Selected Shepherd - Annulet

Ancci: On The Selected Shepherd - Annulet

Annulet: A Journal of Poetics — Reginald Shepherd's Poetry of Desire
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A Poet's Coy Inventiveness | ONLY POEMS

A Poet's Coy Inventiveness | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — A Poet’s Coy Inventiveness - “Is It Beauty That We Owe?” by Janice N. Harrington
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On Leila Chatti's Equinox | ONLY POEMS

On Leila Chatti's Equinox | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — On Leila Chatti’s “Equinox”
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A Review of Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi | ONLY POEMS

A Review of Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — A Review of Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi – Chaos Refined
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The Universal Amplified | ONLY POEMS

The Universal Amplified | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — The Universal Amplified – A Review of At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets, edited by Antoine Caro, Edwin Frank, and Donatien Grau
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5iving Motivational: A Review of Five by Alhanislam - Ancci

5iving Motivational: A Review of Five by Alhanislam - Ancci

yabaleftreview.com — Objectively, this opening assertion is hard to agree with; three and four are more proper as the numbers representing the "rhythm of life." Three has a monotony on the beginning, middle, and the end of things; and four has its own in the tetrad classical elements in the earth, water, air, and fire.
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Red upon red upon red | ONLY POEMS

Red upon red upon red | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — Red upon red upon red – Review of Carey Salerno’s The Hungriest Stars
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It’s Always Been Love | ONLY POEMS

It’s Always Been Love | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — It’s Always Been Love – A Review of Water by Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
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A Bastion of Clinicality | ONLY POEMS

A Bastion of Clinicality | ONLY POEMS

onlypoems.com — A Bastion of Clinicality - On Dami Ajayi’s Clinical Blues
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Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

Harvard Review — Ryan Ruby’s Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry situates itself within the tradition of ambitious, genre-blurring works while simultaneously questioning the very foundations of the medium it employs.
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Ceremony of Survival

Ceremony of Survival

Cleveland Review of Books — As the overriding sentiment in the book intimates, the book turns out to be nothing but a ceremony of her survival, for as she keeps reminding us, “ceremony is survival, [and] survival is joy.”
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Three Short Reviews

Three Short Reviews

The Adroit Journal — Sponsored by African Poetry Book Fund and edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Series is an annual publishing project that has been championing the works of a new generation of African poets since its inception in 2014.
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The Conversation: with Ancci

The Conversation: with Ancci

Substack — This conversation is about poetry and criticism-literature. Nothing more.
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The Struggle Between Faith and Finality

The Struggle Between Faith and Finality

rpublc.com — Feranmi Ariyo's I Watch You Disappear articulates illness, grief, hope and faith, blending prosaic narrative with poetic depth to capture the emotional tension of a family grappling with cancer and loss.
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