Conceived by the KSR Collective as an Africa-centric, traditional-style, royalties-paying publishing house, Konya Shamsrumi, which has gained continental attention with its 5 Questions series with emerging and established poets, recently announced new columnist-bloggers for its website. The press and Collective has also made its publishing debut, with two poetry collections: Richard Ali’s The Anguish and Vigilance of Things and […]
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Poetry Collective & Press Konya Shamsrumi Gets New Columnist-Bloggers in Tafirenyika, Anena, Grieder, Gatawa, and Sabuke
The poetry collective and press Konya Shamsrumi (KSR) has announced new columnist-bloggers for its website. They are: Tinashe Tafirenyika, the two-time National Arts Merit Award-winning Zimbabwean poet and finalist for the 2018 Brittle Paper Award for Creative Nonfiction; Harriet Anena, the Ugandan winner of the 2018 Wole Soyinka Poetry Prize; Andrea Grieder, the Swiss organiser of Rwanda’s Transpoesis; Maryam […]
Why We Love Saraba Magazine’s The Poet of Sand by Umar sidi
To the Romantic poet, P. B. Shelley, “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” To Wole Soyinka, the power of the poet is not that of a legislator—a law maker—but of a vagabond. The poet is “restless seeker,” he writes in Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known, and it is this restlessness coupled with […]
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