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Avec sensibilité, l'auteur revient sur un épisode marquant de l'histoire de la Réunion.
Voici une tragédie créole mettant en scène les derniers esclaves marrons réfugiés au pied du Grand Bénare dans le cirque de Cilaos, du temps de l'île Bourbon.
Ode à la liberté, cette pièce de théâtre est aussi le cri du coeur d'une auteure engagée à défendre les droits des femmes réunionnaises et dénoncer les violences commises envers elles...
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This book is a collection of musings by a wandering soul. It delves into uncomfortable spaces and subjects that are easier left untackled. There is a delicate golden thread that connects these spaces. Some of the musings are on: - Life and Enlightenment- Grief, Loss, Sorrow, and Sadness- Love and Cohesion Ultimately, every experience we encounter is there to teach us something about ourselves and our surroundings. Every experience is there to grow...
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Culbuter le malheur suivi d'Après le progrès, livre-phare marquant la commémoration des 30 ans du génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda (1994-2024). Un million de morts en trois mois. Des silences et des silences. Adolescente à l'époque, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse a échappé au géno-cide. Elle offre dans ce double recueil les mots justes pour faire mémoire par une énonciation radicale de ce qui est un désir puissant de vivre à présent, au présent....
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Carola Luther's ‘On the Way to Jerusalem Farm’ explores the complexities of living in a damaged world. How, it asks, does such a world live in us, and we in it?
At the centre of the collection are three sequences, 'Letters to Rasool', 'Birthday at Emily Court' and 'The Escape'. On the Way to Jerusalem Farm moves through the world, seeking and finding not answers, but sometimes, a means of continuing. The speaker in 'Letters to Rasool' travels...
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The day I got into the accident from the cover picture, I sat in the hospital for four days. I had to take the time to reflect. I realized my life has comprised of a combination of joyous, devastating, and in-between accidents. With each accident, I learned a lesson or grew from the experiences. This is my life told through poetry.
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This is Epiphany Z. Crush's seventh published and her second poetry book. In Life, as Seen Through Her Introverted Eyes, Epiphany delves deeper into matters of the heart as she talks about everyday life experiences that we are often faced with-including current social issues and romantic relationships-spoken from an introvert's perspective. She takes her readers on an interesting voyage filled with love, growth, pain, honesty, strength, joy, spirituality,...
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Customs are a bitch everywhere. It's amusing the first three or four times but after that-arggg! Black markets: Algeria is dangerous, Ghana wide open, Nigeria and Sudan OK, Kenya not worth your effort, Tanzania good." Thus advised, the author disembarked in Algiers in 1976 to cross the Sahara and beyond. During this and on subsequent African journeys, he hitchhiked or took public transport: for example, riding atop a loaded Saharan truck, inside countless...
10) 100 Days
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100 days... 100 days that should not have been... 100 days the world could have stopped. But did not. For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem-each poem recalling the senseless loss of life and of innocence. Okot Bitek draws on her own family's experience of displacement under the regime of Idi Amin, pulling in fragments of the poetic traditions she encounters along the way: the Ugandan Acholi...
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Un recueil de pensées semi-poétiques.
Ce recueil est une compilation de pensées semi-poétiques.
Vous y trouverez
Des tranches de vie diversifiées
Des bouts d'émotions mis en mots
Des fragments d'intimité dévoilés
Un soupçon de rêverie
Une belle dose de sincérité.
Laissez-vous porter par ce recueil de poésies dans lesquelles le poète se livre et se dévoile.
EXTRAIT DE Maman
Je me suis demandé quel était le rle d'une Maman....
12) Ekke
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Multilingually inflected, Klara du Plessis' first collection of poetry explores the multiplicity of self through language, occupying a liminal space between South Africa and Canada. A sequence of visceral, essay-like long poems, du Plessis' writing straddles the lyrical and intellectual, traversing landscapes and fine arts canvases. Ekke is a watershed debut from one of Canada's most exciting young voices.
13) Gas Girls
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Gigi and Lola live by one motto: love for gas, gas for cash, cash for living, living for love. Living in Zimbabwe's depressed economy, both women live day-by-day, plying their trade with the truck drivers that stop at the border.
Gigi knows the limitations of her trade, while her young protégé, Lola, looks for love in every man that comes her way. Lola's brother, Chickn, ekes out his own living, while keeping an ever-watchful eye for Gigi's affections...
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Since its publication in April 2017, Collective Amnesia has taken the South African literary scene by storm. The book is in its twelfth print run and is prescribed for study at tertiary level in South African Universities and abroad. The collection is the recipient of the 2018 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, named 2017 book of the year by the City Press and one of the best
books of 2017 by The Sunday Times and Quartz Africa.
It is translated...
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Words and Other Weapons is an abstract literary art piece that refuses to categorise itself in any singular literary genre. Instead, it offers a scenic, panoramic window into the relationships women have with self and society, diligently exploring questions of identity and adulthood, motherhood and marriage, relationships and careers, among others, and how these are reconciled with the maddening complexities and uncertainties of the external world....
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The life of teenage girl is an emotional rollercoaster. Just like anyone, you go through ups and downs, but during the adolescent years, everything in your life is heightened. When you're in love, you love hard, with intense passion. When you hate, you hate from within the depths of your soul. You see life as it is through your eyes at that present moment. You may feel as if you don't have a voice, but spoken word or poetry is a great way to express...
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A collection of poetry from the poet/author guests of Robbie Cheadle on the "Treasuring Poetry" blog series on Writing to be Read in 2021. Relationships are golden and each of Arthur Rosch, Elizabeth Merry, D Avery, Robbie Cheadle, Harmony Kent, Lauren Scott, Julespaige, Leon Stevens, Colleen M. Chesebro, Miriam Hurdle, Marjorie Mallon, and Lynda McKinney Lambert pay poetic tribute to their most intense personal moments.
18) soft magic
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Told in five parts, soft magic is a shared healing journey.
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A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures
Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose work leaves a lasting impact.
Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals of the body, from what it means to give consent to how we grapple with demons internal and external,...
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Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada. Focusing on Laurence's published works as well as her unpublished letters not yet discussed by critics, the book articulates how Laurence and her characters are poised between African colonies of occupation during decolonization and the settler-colony of English...
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