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Biracial Woman Says Aren’t I a Black Woman Too details a biracial woman contemplating her identity regarding issues of race and society.

هو مرآة عاكسة لروح عصره، عصراً شهد تحولات عميقة في تاريخ مصر والوطن العربي. يعتبر البارودي من أبرز شعراء النهضة المصرية، وقد ترك ديوانه إرثاً أدبياً غنياً أثّر في الأجيال اللاحقة.

This collection of poems explores the movements, excesses, and extremes of existing as a postmodern person, connecting these experiences to ancestry by reimagining memories, history, homesteads, migration, and the intersections of the past, present, and possible futures.

A sister’s phone call from a war-torn village. A child’s drawing held up to a flickering screen. A homeland that still dares to call itself the Land of Good. A Field Divided: Voices of Sister, Sons, and Homeland is a poetic chronicle of Sudan’s recent war and its long shadows, told through three central poems and the reflections that surround them. In “Omzina: A Wound in Two Tobes”, a brother listens as his sister’s voice crosses miles of dust and silence.

In Opened Doors, author Artie Bryant passionately delves into love, pain and the whirlwind of emotions in between through a profound collection of poetry, intricately penned to propel listeners into the author's transparent, visual feast of confessions.

In this book-length epic poem set in northern Nigeria, Saddiq Dzukogi blends the personal with the mythical, part prayer and part praise song, expanding the griot tradition of Bakandamiya, a poetic form from northern Nigeria popularized by Mamman Shata.

The poems in Leaked Footages carry urgent subjects, ranging from death to disappearance to grief to memory. Not only do the poems fulfill the tradition of witnessing often manifested in contemporary poets such as Garous Abdolmalekian and Ilya Kaminsky, but they extend that tradition by the medium through which they witness: the technical and the technological.

In A Delicate Delivery, Ndaba Sibanda masterfully weaves words into powerful poetic tapestries, unveiling the silenced struggles, uncelebrated triumphs, and raw resilience of Africa's unsung heroes. With evocative imagery and poignant rhythm, these poems echo the unheeded cries of history, the weight of injustice, and the enduring spirit of those who fought, suffered, and dreamed of a better tomorrow.

This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema’s collection, The Careless Seamstress, evokes the national and the subjective while reemphasizing that what is personal is always political. The girls and women in these poems are not mere objects; they speak, labor, and gaze back, with difficulty and consequence. The tropes are familiar, but in their animation they question and move in unexpected ways.

South Africa is a complicated, contradictory, and haunted place. Len Verwey captures the trajectory of life in such a place, dealing with childhood, war, marriage, divorce, and death. He explores the challenges posed by place and history, shared identities, deep embeddedness in the continent, and the legacies of violence and exclusion, as well as beauty. Verwey offers poems that speak of uncertainty, ask questions, and challenge simplistic and scapegoating narratives that become so tempting when living in a society undergoing intense social and economic pressure.

Loving the Dying is a collection of poems on life’s different stages. Set against the backdrop of a conflicted society, Len Verwey looks at a person’s life from youth and growing up to aging and dying, considering what the ineluctable reality of death might imply about how we should think about our lives. These are poems of uncertainty rather than certainty. The more overtly biographical ones end with as many questions as they start with, and there is often sympathy for the outsider or the marginalized voice.

Faydé ha preso la sua decisione. Andrà a Maroua, a servizio nella casa di qualche fulani benestante, come hanno fatto le sue amiche, che tornano al villaggio per le festività ben vestite e cariche di doni per le proprie famiglie. Per sua madre, Kondem, la sola idea è insopportabile. Lei sa bene che vita fanno le domestiche in città, e non vuole che sua figlia sperimenti sulla propria pelle la stessa sofferenza e la stessa umiliazione che l'hanno fatta tornare in montagna giurando: mai più.

Tales from the Eastern Cape, gathered in 1886.

Laurel Sibanda is a Zimbabwean-British writer and poet currently living in Southeast England. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with American Literature. This is her first poetry collection, exploring identity, mental health, generational trauma, and her relationship with poetry.

Cocaine Lion is a story about a gangsta with a Lion's head and his rise to becoming one of the biggest drug lords in Diamond City, SC. This is a story of action, drugs and love, join us for Cocaine Lion.

What if words were the ultimate weapon? Welcome to The G.R.I.O.T. (The Gods Revel In Our Talents)—a groundbreaking cinematic spoken word journey where poetry fuels revolution, mythology meets reality, and truth is forged in the heat of battle. In the legendary Tournament of Ascension, warriors don’t fight with swords—they fight with their voices. 'The Nubian', an unknown poet with no rank or history, steps into the Celestial Coliseum, where gods, spirits, and oppressive systems await his challenge. With every verse, he shatters illusions, topples false kings, and reclaims lost narratives.

Kennedi Mason thinks she's the luckiest woman on earth. She loves her job, she has a wonderful best friend, and she's been married for ten years to her soul mate. There's nothing she can think of that could make her life any better. Then one fateful day Kennedi receives a piece of news that will turn her world upside down. She's excited about it, and she knows that her husband, Blake, will be over the moon. He has always dreamed of this one thing happening, and she can't wait until he comes home so she can tell him.

Shad-Dari has escaped her past, her dreams now in reach. An excavator of the valuable old sounds of Órino-Rin, she steals tiny, unheard fragments of the sacred songs to erase the painful echo of her home planet, Ekwukwe. In one rebellion too far, she sets off a chain of events that severs her from time itself, forcing her, without another way forward, to face her past.

A literary masterpiece that beautifully captures the vibrant colors of love, hope, and faith. Stephanie Zion’s "Reflections of a Woman of Faith" takes listeners on a spiritual journey filled with hope, healing, and solace. Stephanie’s words are a testament to the strength and beauty of the human spirit. With each poem, she delves deep into the depths of her own experiences, offering readers a glimpse into her soul.

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An epic take on the white slave trade by Barbary pirates, centreing on the most famous buccaneer of the Salle Rovers—Jan Janszoon Van Haarlem. This novel-length narrative poem is set over six books, all interconnected but each telling its own separate and unique story.