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They spread between sections. They break out of themselves. They repeat. They reflect on landscapes, bodies, travel, time, and rooted memories, concentrating on precision of image, narrative, and language. All different shapes, colours, and textures fly over and in the multiple same-sized square boxes of the prose poem form. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection began on the train journey between the San Francisco Bay Area and Toronto, and is supported by Walker's appreciation and integration of visual art techniques. It bursts with various narrative voices, synaesthetic and surprising imagery, and a fluidity between seemingly historical events and dreamlike voyaging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eyewear Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42983260749982,"sku":"","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0985\/7354\/files\/cover_walker.jpg?v=1701275775"},{"product_id":"he-shows-me-where","title":"He Shows Me Where","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePreorder NOW! | Poetry - Paperback\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eHe Shows Me Where\u003c\/em\u003e, Alexandra Strnad explores the impact of war, and of totalitarian regimes, on her family’s lives, as well as challenges faced in recent times: poverty, natural disaster, global conflict, and the impact of modern plagues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eAlexandra read English at Cambridge, and Creative Writing at Oxford (where she graduated with Distinction). Her work includes the pamphlets H is for Hadeda, published by Poetry Salzburg in 2017, and Pilgrims, published by Eyewear in 2019, as well as numerous works in leading journals. She won the Jane Martin Poetry Prize in 2014.  She is a Czech and British national, currently living between East Africa, Prague, the Middle East, and the Scottish Borders.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0985\/7354\/files\/IMG_0238_480x480.jpg?v=1701364866\" width=\"189\" height=\"178\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eyewear Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42985162637470,"sku":"","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0985\/7354\/files\/strnad_shows.jpg?v=1701364992"},{"product_id":"childish-recollections","title":"Childish Recollections","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePreorder NOW! | Poetry - Paperback\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChildish Recollections\u003c\/em\u003e is a series of poems that explore the poet’s transition from childhood to adulthood; from moving from Ghana to the UK in 1977 aged 2 to leaving university in 1996. Moss has added the suffix ‘ish’ because as an Anglo-Ghanaian seventies child growing up in a mono-cultural market town, he was in some ways forced to grow up very quickly. The author experienced a level of racism, subtle and more overt that no child (or for that matter adult) should bear. In addition, the suffix is apt as it is an imprecise recollection of experiences, neither perfectly factual nor fictional, that lie somewhere between. Moss reflects upon the perennial condition (or if you will, the default ‘mid’ imposition) of being ‘ish’ in the middle that he experiences between cultures, ‘races’ and classes! \u003cem\u003eChildish Recollections\u003c\/em\u003e is the poet’s imaginative recounting and memorialising of a history both personal and universal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eChildish Recollections...\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis arresting fifth collection should not go unnoticed. Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss’s meticulously crafted reminiscence of the vagaries of identity unflinchingly explores the ways in which our sense of self is both fluid and settled. Looking back over time and distance, Moss evocatively examines his complex roots, from Ghana to Bedfordshire, concluding ‘I’m half black\/I’m half white … Nothing is black and white’. These poems feel essential. They do what poetry should do – they clarify who we are by concentrating on the particularities of a single life in precise and resonant language.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Foulcher, poet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss collection ‘Childish Recollections’ The memories are vivid, like walking through perfectly detailed historical timelines. I grew with each poem.  Place and Memory are my two lovers. I travelled with Andrew. I saw and appreciated the beauty of place and what one remembers. most importantly, reading each poem, I learned something new.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e- Eric Ngalle, poet, author, playwright\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAndrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss’s fifth collection ‘Childish Recollections’ bounces off the page. An immersive reading experience alive with cultural, linguistic and geographical crossings evoking the worlds of 1970s Ghana and Bedfordshire, England. Moss’s work draws deeply from his childhood and he writes straight from the heart – there is both a direct and deeply observant quality here. Poems bold in form untangle the traumas of racism from the richness of cultural duality. They are peppered with popular cultural references, from music to sport, TV and cars, which root them solidly in time and place. The matrilineal line is strong here; the smell Moss’s Mother and Grandmother’s cooking rise from the page and bend homesickness with belonging; ‘Comfort cooks on gas, often she inhales Akan aphorisms’. Moss’s poems, which move effortlessly between Twi and English, are a rich cultural stew which ‘un-crack palm-kernels of truth’ and unravel the realities of a hybrid, Afro-British identity.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e- Dr Emily Zobel Marshall, Reader in Postcolonial Literature at Leeds Beckett University,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor and Poet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom childhood innocence through to adolescent angst, this collection examines the\u003cbr\u003esubjectivities of a speaker whose life has been shaped by the afterlife of transatlantic slavery and imperialism. Andrew Moss journeys across continents, connecting past and present through a rhythmic flow of verses that give voice to the birthing of a hybrid identity shaped by race, language and culture at the intersection of two worlds, Europe and Africa. At the heart of this probing, the collection shines with the energy of a writer who offers the reader an invitation to delve into the crucible of this human conundrum where the Displaced and dispossessed, descendant[s] of slavery, a turtle, Carry home on [their] shoulders, a boulder of colonization. In poems such as Nanas Intertwined and Odondo Talking Drum, the speaker highlights the gifts that have emerged from the struggles and contradictions of living in two worlds. From this interrogation of the past fraught with memories of racism and dislocation, arises a celebration of the empowerment harvested from the lineages of two Nanas, Nana Ghana and Nana England: Life is neither black nor white. These poems are hymns, whispering above the complexities of a post-colonial world, Here’s to peace. - \u003cstrong\u003eDr. Marva McClean is the author of \u003cem\u003eFrom the Middle Passage to Black Lives Matter: Ancestral Writing as a Pedagogy of Hope\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoss's debut collection is raw, heartfelt and infused with love and longing for people and places. It is a powerful recollection of being the 'Other' in Britain: in the school playground; of being a child trying his best to fit in, in an often-hostile environment; moving from childhood into young adulthood and the different challenges that presents; and of being a child and young man, who, due to his dual heritage, inhabits two very different worlds. Readers who grew up in 1970s and 1980s Britain will find much that resonates: those-half forgotten memories of the things which formed an integral part of the backdrop to our lives: Ladybird books, Battenberg cakes, custard creams and gold tins of hairspray, 'bottles of bitter lemon' and 'cheeks cobwebbed red.'For readers from the African diaspora, there is much to connect to: the exploration of what it means to have dual heritage, that searching for self. Others will be transported, through Moss's evocative poetry, to both of the worlds he has\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ecreated and the path he has weaved between the two. Moss skilfully connects two disparate continents - Europe and Africa - with their long and painful history, and connects past with present, country with country, colonisation with decolonisation. The contrast between the two continents is palpable, visceral. Each place is brought vividly to life with rich and finely observed details. Reading this collection is like walking through time and space, a journey both real and imagined or remembered. There is\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003esomething here for everyone, no matter what our heritage, Moss's powerful words speak to us all.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eLouisa Adjoa Parker, Writer, Poet, Speaker, Consultant\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eyewear Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42985171484830,"sku":"","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0985\/7354\/files\/cover_moss3.jpg?v=1701906038"},{"product_id":"chisungu","title":"Chisungu","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePreorder NOW! | Poetry - Paperback\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA nod to Zambian-British poet Kayo Chingonyi’s collection entitled \u003cem\u003eKumukanda\u003c\/em\u003e, referring to the male initiation ceremony, \u003cem\u003eChisungu\u003c\/em\u003e is the initiation ceremony of young women in the Bemba tradition. 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They grow for years from a few words you heard on a summer evening when you leaned sleepily against your mother’s side as she talked with friends over your head. Or you have told them so many times that you can’t remember the first telling. They become trees with dark branches, rustling leaves you can hide in. You fall asleep in these trees and dream. Maybe you dreamt parts of some stories; maybe you made some up completely. Now there is no one you can ask.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection welcomes readers inside the warm, funny, confusing, and deep experiences of one person’s perspective on their family. You’ll recognize your own moments in these memories while feeling your way into a family that’s not yours—and the joy, wisdom, and heartache in knowing others more intimately, with recollections of family, history, connections, and revelations. These second-person memoirs are accompanied by family photos, so readers see the family and also find the universal in the personal. The creative nonfiction in \u003cem\u003eFamily Stories\u003c\/em\u003e is indirectly autobiographical. Readers enter the life of the author through the lenses of family, art, and illness—things that are important in the life of the author. In “Memories of Art,” the personal history of the speaker entwines with paintings, dance, and music. 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