When the Sun Turns Red is a cry from the heart of women residing in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon who have borne the physical and psychological pains of war.
Read moreSpears Poetry Festival 2022
Join us for the second edition of our Virtual Poetry Festival featuring the best of our published poets, including Mary Ngwebong Ngu, Lilian Atanga, Ekpe Inyang, Nnane Ntube, Franklin Agogho,
Read moreInterrogating the Shades of Life
The foremost English critic, Matthew Arnold, once observed that “poetry is, at bottom, a criticism of life; that the greatness of a poet lies in his (her) powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life; to the question: How do we live?” Arnold here simply meant that poetry should be relevant to the lives of people and shouldn’t be far-fetched as to have no direct contact with humankind. This observation aptly applies to Beatrice Fri Bime’s Shades of Sorrow, Tears and Laughter; a poetic tapestry of 66 pieces of varying length rendered in 12 shades of unequal length. Here, Fri Bime’s appealing lyricism, her uniquely simple but witty voice, invites an engagement with issues that pertain to life; to all of life, in her immediate vicinity and beyond.
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This is a poignant book of witty, reflective, sophisticated, and subversive poems that find meaning in unexpected places.
Read moreEscape from Prison
Escape From Prison is a composition of sounds, feelings, illustrations and rhythms exuding from real life stories, moments of introspection, reflections on the identity of prisoners, the remote causes of loss of freedom, and instances of escapades into a reverie of an ideal, yet attainable world wherein a peaceful mind finds more harmony in nature than in an exacting and artificial society with mediocre standards.
Read moreBearing Witness: A Protest in Poetry
This compendium pulsates with rage. A rage that had been smouldering with the intensity of a welder’s blowtorch for decades, before erupting into a full-flared conflagration. It is a literary buffet of Cameroonian poets, driven by the galvanizing idea to comment on the cataclysmic events that saw a seismic change in the socio-political landscape of the two Anglophone regions. The different poets managed to capture the angst and the hopes of a people trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives.
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