Tender poetry chronicling a son’s relationship with his mother through her battle with cancer and his move from his home......more

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A new poetic form from Fiston Mwanza Mujila, lauded author of novels Tram 83 and The Villain’s Dance and poetry collecti......more

Blue Exodus, Hussain Ahmed’s second full-length poetry collection, was selected by Rajiv Mohabir as the winner of The 20......more

The Calabash is a collection of poems that confronts the deepest sense of reasoning and emotions. It encompasses, love, ......more

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PINK: Long-Awaited New Collection from Yuko Otomo. Yuko Otomo’s new work is like visiting Paris without getting on a pla......more

This moving poetry collection from the Booker Prize-winning author finds strength and hope while reflecting on the compl......more

The extraordinary Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki (Voice of Agony) is a collection of prison poems composed by ......more

Like a Viewfinder with overlapping reels, Safia Jama examines the way inherited trauma--her parents and brother fleeing ......more

At some point in your life, have you ever felt alone? Have you ever felt lost, isolated, or perhaps a little selfish? We......more

In the poem that opens her debut collection, Susan Okie recounts an evening in the anatomy lab. Here we witness the dept......more

This book is about socially Relevant Poetry. African American point of view on social issues....more

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In the poems Musings, Values, Virtues And Vices Of Africa And Beyond, the poets engage the reader in intricate, intimate......more

"Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by contemporary poets from Africa, pack......more

Welcome to a world of powerful and evocative poetry that will take you on a journey through the complexities of the Afri......more

A Brand New Translated Collection from one of Africa’s Leading Poets Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi is one of the leading African po......more

In Ghana’s Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they wer......more

In there’s more, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike takes on the rich concepts of home and belonging: home lost and regained, ho......more

A collection of visceral, anti-colonial poetry from the Maghreb region of North Africa that is as indebted to Surrealism......more

Move is the intimate story of the war refugee, human and goods trafficked, child soldiers and the dispossessed focusing ......more

The struggle against direct colonialism by millions of people across Africa and Asia was fought with a view to the creat......more

The book is an utaniki, a poetic travel journal comprised of haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, zappai and various Japanese im......more

There Where It’s So Bright in Me pries at the complexities of difference--race, religion, gender, nationality--that shap......more

A is for Acholi is a sweeping collection exploring diaspora, the marginalization of the Acholi people, the dusty streets......more

FRETWIRE is an attempt to understand the shifting meaning of poetry. Its critical pace, contortions, grace, quiet revolu......more

They arrived five centuries ago and have made this land, sky, and oceans their own. They have lived in the shadow of mys......more

They arrived five centuries ago and have made this land, sky, and oceans their own. They have lived in the shadow of mys......more

The first book of poems from an acclaimed young author, whose meteoric rise has already landed them on the cover of Time......more

Samuel leads in contemporary Nigerian poetry with a burst of songs that are not only genuine and ignited but also illumi......more

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black I......more

Uche Nduka uses innovative poetic techniques to challenge the reader while investigating what he calls unexplored lingui......more

Niyi Osundare’s latest book of poems, Green: Sighs Of Our Ailing Planet, is a critical pastoral of poems concerning the ......more

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This is a collection of poems written over a number of years. It is the first book in a collection of 3 books. It is an ......more