Take a blade, sever a pair of veinsWatch the blood trickle. Visions ofFutures you know
Author: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi711 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 Call Me
Title: A Woman’s Body is a CountryAuthor: Dami AjayiPublisher: Ouida BooksNumber of pages: 69Year of publication: 2017Category: Poetry Dami Ajayi’s second
SCENE ONE Somewhere in Maikontri University, during a protracted industrial action by the Universities’ Union.
There was so much Dike wanted which made his heart pound hard often, which made
In your first coming, you are a miracle. You are the result of your mother’s
1. This is what people say of memories: they slip away with time. They disintegrate.
SCENE ONE A well-furnished living room is revealed. There is a centre table on which
ONEIt was absurd, he thought, walking home that evening. Coming from a bar, he had
‘You’re too clean to be a writer,’ she said to me, half smiling, half cross-examining