New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nane)

The limited-edition box set is an annual project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets who have not yet published their first full-length book of poetry. This box set features art by Admire Kamudzengerere and contains the following chapbooks: Invocations by Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Handrails by Cynthia Amoah, The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far by Precious Arinze, dust to dust by Lameese Badr, Field of No Justice by Sara Elkamel, Dugsi Girl by Edil Hassan, Miryam Magdalit by Jeremy Teddy Karn, like a gift unto ourselves by Hauwa Shaffi Nuhu, Keep the Bodies Buried by Selina Nwulu, Bitter and Sweet by Ayan M. Omar, A Chagossian Woman’s Lament by Saradha Soobrayen, Koola Lobitos by Ajibola Tolase, and My Poets Don’t Die by Qutouf Yahia.