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When We Speak by Rafinki
When We Speak is an electrifying collection of verses by young Kenyan poets on a variety of concerns which recognizably affect the contemporary Kenyan Personality across the generations.
Enunciated in this anthology include preoccupations with art,passion,culture,current crises, nature and spirituality. With a keen sense of agency and urgency, the poets compellingly wrap their minds around issues that elicit a diversity of emotions ranging right from delightful mirth to depressing gloom. The net result of these collective distillations is a laudable mosaic of sorts.
Broken Vase by Qui Qarre
There are poems I’ve been wanting to scrap off from this book
I feel like I have let you see parts of me that I hate looking at
Parts of me I sometimes don’t want to be associated with
Parts of me I don’t want in my legacy
Parts I don’t want my child to know,
The sad thing is, I’m a storyteller and these are not my stories
These are your stories
Find yourself in them
What Does a Man Want? by Muthoni Liki...
Brief Summary
In this book, author Muthoni Gacharija Likimani explores with feeling the continuing struggle of women to come to grips with the demands of their men. Men are mysterious and inaccessible. Their irrepressible egoism drives the women to total despair and apathy. What should a woman do to understand her man?
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Pace in Poetry is a poetry anthology ...
Brief Summary
Pace in Poetry is a poetry anthology that has notes, KCSE sample papers, a marking scheme and extra practice activities.
This book introduces learners to poetry at Form 1 and advances through, Form 2, 3 and finally, Form 4 with sample KCSE level poems and questions with a marking scheme and suggestions on how to answer and score all the marks in poetry.
Apart from the usual poetry Pace in Poetry tackles oral poetry too. This book can be used to teach/learn and also be used as a revision tool by students. It is a must-have book for all secondary school students.
Soaring above the Pandemic Poetic Ech...
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here.
i dive into the well of my body
and end up in another world
everything i need
already exists in me
there’s no need
to look anywhere else
- home
When I learned how to walk and other ...
Brief Summary
'When I learned how to walk & other poems', is a compilation of 17 poems written by myself (I have been a performing spoken word poet in Nairobi for the past 5 years, and this is my debut poetry book).
The poems in this book span a wide range of topics, from African power, love, identity, mental health, and the inevitability of heartbreak.
The book is a small one, 61 pages, however, it contains poems that are meant to be re-read as many times as the reader wishes. The book is largely in English, and contains a few lines in Swahili, with one of the poems being entirely in Swahili.
ISBN:9789914700473
Author: Mumbi Macharia
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth ...
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of Nawal El Saadawi. As Rumi said, "Love will find its way through all languages on its own".
In 'teaching my mother how to give birth', Warsan's debut pamphlet, we witness the unearthing of a poet who finds her way through all preconceptions to strike the heart directly. Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who is based in London.
Born in 1988, she is an artist and activist who uses her work to document narratives of journey and trauma. Warsan has read her work internationally, including recent readings in South Africa, Italy and Germany, and her poetry has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.
Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.
this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise
in order to bloom
Black Tipped Nipples by Mildred Ngesa
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.
It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache.
Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the bitterest moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
The Africa I Want Poems BY Fatma Adam
The Poems cover a range of topics such as Domestic Violence, HIV/Aids, Corruption, Beauty and Love, among others. 'The Africa I Want' illustrates the author's critical and analytical thoughts on the Continent and highlights the underlying problems to social ills within the sixty captivating poems in her book.
"The Africa I want is a powerful, thought- provoking and entertaining work of art" says publisher Africa Lense Media Limited. Her areas of interest include Gender rights, Politics and Leadership and Pan-Africanism.
Her poetry has an element of activism towards social issues with the aim of provoking her readers to think differently on these issues.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Ma...
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrash." At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime.
Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors ("I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare") will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read."