Poetry

Song Of A Wounded Mother is an anthology of thirteen poems that address different issues in our past, present and future society.Love, betrayal and thwarted expectations are some of the key issues addressed in this anthology of poems hence it's relevant to individuals of different age brackets and from all backgrounds across the world.The book echoes the moral values that need to be inculcated in our day to day life.Themes are primarily drawn from the Luo community though broadened to cover the universal aspects of literature.

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.

This book is a poetic and journalistic work in which Javier Gutiérrez Lozano brings together 25 stories of the harshest and most violent reality in Mexico. Poetry then becomes not only a method of catharsis, but also a weapon of denunciation in search of justice and social awareness.