Identity: Never IC3 but a Grateful & Amazing Brunette Brown
20 November 2025
Identity: Never IC3 but a Grateful & Amazing Brunette Brown
never ic3 A personal meditation on Black identity, skin colour and the…
Simple Sheng: Slang, Diaspora and Ever New Deviations
16 September 2025
Simple Sheng: Slang, Diaspora and Ever New Deviations
Simple Sheng Voices from Nairobi “ Niaje, msee?” breaks silence, Patois in the…
Angela Rayner: Quick Reckoning Time in the Vortex of Power
4 September 2025
Angela Rayner: Quick Reckoning Time in the Vortex of Power
Reckoning A political poem about power, privilege, accountability, and the uneasy divide…
A New Guise of Power: Xi, Putin & Kim in Beijing
2 September 2025
A New Guise of Power: Xi, Putin & Kim in Beijing
New Guise of Power A political poem about shifting global power, as…
Unlock Olorun: The African God in the Universal Light
30 August 2025
Unlock Olorun: The African God in the Universal Light
Unlock Olorun A poetic reflection on the place of Ọlọrun within humanity’s…
A Beautiful Elegy for a Ruthless Tyrant
31 July 2025
A Beautiful Elegy for a Ruthless Tyrant
Elegy for a Tyrant An elegiac political poem confronting the human cost…
Δουλεύω | Translation, Language and the Poetry of Work
20 March 2025
Δουλεύω | Translation, Language and the Poetry of Work
Δουλεύω A poetic meditation on translation, language and the hidden histories carried…
Tea, Tariffs, and a Painful Manifest Destiny
11 March 2025
Tea, Tariffs, and a Painful Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny A satirical dialogue about American exceptionalism, empire and cultural influence,…
Reviving Lost Words: A Poem of Forgotten Meanings
9 November 2024
Reviving Lost Words: A Poem of Forgotten Meanings
Forgotten Words A playful and densely linguistic poem about the resurrection of…
Claiming My World: Defiance in Hushed Tones
30 May 2023
Claiming My World: Defiance in Hushed Tones
Hushed Tones A reflective poem exploring ancestry, colonial legacy and the contradictions…
The Writer’s Vision of Enduring Repetition
3 April 2018
The Writer’s Vision of Enduring Repetition
the poet said you see recurrences
Shackles to Triumph: Resurrecting the Resilient Slave Narrative
“0, 1, to the 2, 1, Yo, bedrin where your hairline gone?
Negrophil not Negrophobe | A Poem About Race and Resistance
5 February 2015
Negrophil not Negrophobe | A Poem About Race and Resistance
Negrophil, not negrophobe, Check her out chewing up on his ear lobe.
Aleppo: The End of The Old Silk Road
20 September 2014
Aleppo: The End of The Old Silk Road
The End of The Old Silk Road A historical poem tracing Aleppo…
