Babila Mutia is a master storyteller but he is a poet too, and his poetic sensibilities are not far off in these two masterpieces. We, the readers are at his mercy, devouring every word, and when we get to the last page, we are forced to confront the unstable nature of what we call our reality. That is, if we survive Mutia’s vacuum chamber!
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Narrow Escapes: A Poetic Diary of the Coronavirus Pandemic is a poetic journey that is at once emotional and spiritual. In over 200 distinct poems, the reader follows the poet’s musing from the pandemic’s outbreak to the onset of the second wave. The poems are shaped by and reflect the persistent fear induced by the ubiquity of the virus and the accentuation of life’s uncertainty as never experienced before.
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Gil Ndi-Shang (author of Letter from America) crafts a spiral of stories that connect diasporic life with home in all its uncanny complexity. The collection captures and coalesces diverse stories, voices, dreams, idiolects and idiosyncrasies in a poignant and dextrous blend of light-hearted humour and existential gravity.
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