Interview by Uche Umezurike Questions of displacement and diaspora haunt Brandon Wint’s poetry. In Divine Animal (Write Bloody North, 2020), Wint traverses the watery routes of memory to unearth the various ways that the spectres of history haunt modernity....
Interview by Uche Umezurike Yejide Kilanko’s new novel A Good Name (Guernica Editions, 2021) explores the complexities of relationships, traditions, and masculinities. Uche Umezurike sits down with the author to discuss the process behind her work. Uche Umezurike: A...
Interview by Kufre Usanga Uche Umezurike’s new collection Double Wahala, Double Trouble (Griots Lounge Publishing, 2021) touches on human relationships, the complexities of life, ecological degradation, police brutality, banditry and militancy, and masculinities. Umezurike illuminates various shades of troubles...
There is grimness and there is vitality in Tell the Birds Your Body is Not a Gun. Rayanne Haines engages with pain and scars, but is also familiar with warmth and tenderness, in her rendition of the personal and social—she...
Interview by Uche Umezurike Teardrops on the Weser (2021) consists of poems elegantly crafted by practiced fingers, poems as luminous as they are liquid. Water imagery ripples through the rhythm of the poems, charting the poet’s itineraries far and wide. Migration,...
Interview by Uche Umezurike In Where the Baedeker Leads, James Yékú explores in language precise and mellifluous the particulars of longing and love, home and diaspora. He takes the reader along routes of memory and immediacy, traversing time and...
Interview by Uche Umezurike KB’s poetry shimmers with a playfulness that veils the scars and struggles of a poet who refuses to be defined by the politics of propriety and respectability. Each poem raises a fist against gender binary, emphasizes...
Interview by Uche UmezurikePhoto Credit: City of Edmonton Nisha Patel’s debut poetry collection, Coconut (NeWest Press, 2021), resounds as a metaphoric laugh in the face of strictures and resists the lure of propriety. Through poetry as expansive as it...