For a large part of my adult life, which is quite a long time, as I could kindly be best described as 'post retirement', I have felt, in fact known, that I needed to write a book.
In this book of poetry in which I have created represent my love and appreciation for black women and this is just how I feel as a writer and as a black man and as a human being and I hope that my love poems about black women truly reflect what love black women would want from black men and what it could possibly be to all black women worldwide I honor and adore you.
Written out of desperation this book presented itself as a continuous poem from start to finish it came out of not knowing what else to do other than commit suicide.
Interlaced with humour and insight, Luminosity is a collection of carefully observed, profoundly moving poems that cast a bright light on a wide range of life experiences.
Lightning Shades traverses the mysteries of existence, from the ambiguities that lie within our inner lives, to the liminal spaces we occupy throughout life and death, sleeping and waking, growth and decay, and all the paradoxes that abound within those realms.
These short poems celebrate the enigmatic, sometimes comical, often disappointing and always exquisite movement between dark and light in every human encounter.
Trapped in the cycleBut I m bound to prosperDodging bullets and rivalsAmid bloodshot eyes and monstersMomentarial intermissionBefore I dive back inWhen the veil is liftedI pray you find power in your skinShaweezy still lives withinNo matter the disguise portrayedEverything belongs to himDespite being trapped in a cage
So Many Moving Parts, Tiffany Atkinson's third collection, is an eccentric 21st-century meditation on the awkwardness of body and spirit and their unexpected, often unwanted intrusions into the business of everyday life.
An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career - new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poetsSpanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies.
In her new volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous, ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees as happiness.
Love is a universal feeling but a few lines of musings from a poet - assembled words perhaps softly spoken - can express a romance or desire that if we don't yet have we'd probably like to.
Dear Yukie is the third part of a verse novel series (including Leopardwood and Kirinya) exploring how we are together, with our history and our environment.
From the direct trajectory of her first collection, Straight Ahead, Clare Shaw's second collection Head On turns an unflinching gaze into startling new territories.
