<p>'The Script of Bruises' by Funmi Gaji uses third world consciousness as backdrop to explore gender relations, identity, the politics of space and toxic masculinity. It is about identity and identifying. Two poems which bear the burdens of grounding the collection are Collage and A Broken Scale. The work is a collage which captures the brokenness and pain which tie the poems together. The poems in the book frequently reach out to the female body as a template and stage where numerous meanings are made and nurtured.</p>

The Script of Bruises by Funmi Gaji

<div>If you want to meet poems all high and fucked up on hard drugs, liquor, wine and alcoholic herbs brewed in the skull of ants, poems all charged up on Bolivian marching powder and biscuits of dung, poems that slit the throat of artistic orthodoxy, poems that condemn iambic pentameter to a long life of servanthood in Dantes purgatory, poems that stir rebellion in the Republic of Poets, poems that hyper-increase the madness of poets to the one billionth degree, Jealous poems that smash the jugular of all motherfucking lovers of poetry, then hasten, enter this collection by Umar Abubakar Sidi and be redeemed.</div>

The Poet of Dust by Umar Abubakar Sidi

<div>'The Anguish and Vigilance of Things' is Richard Alis long-awaited debut. The collection deals with a range of ideas and issues, playing with form and structure. At the centre of it all is the image of a poet in a penultimate space, at an angle to the stairs of this world in the sense of James Baldwin. </div>

The Anguish and Vigilance of Things by Richard Ali

<p>In this chapbook, Rasaq Malik Gbolahan explores the problems in his society and tries to create pictures of what it looks like to be a Nigerian. What it means to wake up daily and realize the fact that there are unrecorded deaths and massacres everywhere. Beyond the spectacle of the poet's grief, the reader also finds out that the world they inhabit is a traumatic one: a world where there are people who flee every day from their homeland; a world where those who remember to narrate their losses are haunted by these losses, and it is continuous.</p>

The Other Names of Grief by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan

<div>You can preorder and order our books and chapbooks here.<br><strong>Konya Shamsrumi Collective</strong>&nbsp;</div><div>Richard Ali.&nbsp;</div><div>Rasaq Malik Gbolahan.&nbsp;</div><div>Funmi Gaji.&nbsp;</div><div>Umar Abubakar Sidi.&nbsp;</div><div><strong>+</strong></div>