TO
In To, Atuhwera Daphine traces the human journey through friendship, education, love, family, wealth, poverty and suffering before confronting the one destination every life eventually shares.
ON MY WAY TO 30
In On My Way to 30, Marvin M.W reflects on turning 27, confronting childhood wounds and rediscovering faith, hope and his own voice as he begins the journey towards 30.
LOVE OF MY LIFE
In Love of My Life, Kenganzi Anitah Maverick uses crimson, scarlet and fiery imagery to portray passionate love as an intense force capable of consuming the heart.
THE ONLY ACHILLES HEEL
In The Only Achilles Heel, Kenganzi Anitah Maverick combines idioms, playful contradictions and romantic imagery to celebrate a love that has become both a blessing and her greatest vulnerability.
BELONGING
In Belonging, home lives beyond geography. Through memories of Masaka, a brother’s voice, fried groundnuts and familiar words, the poet explores how family and memory allow us to carry home wherever we go.
LOVING MY COUNTRY HURTS!
In Loving My Country Hurts!, Suzan Kantanzi Amumpaire draws on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to explore patriotism, pain and the complicated experience of loving one's country while feeling wounded by what happens within it.
UNITY
In Unity, Opakrwoth Joel Wachibra celebrates solidarity across differences in race, language, culture and identity, calling on humanity to build bridges of compassion, peace and collective purpose.
I WISH I HAD A DAD
Wish I Had a Dad explores fatherlessness through the eyes of a child who imagines how a father's presence might have changed school, family life, hardship and an older sister's future.
LOVE AND MARRIAGE NO LONGER CONSENT
Must love always lead to marriage? In Love and Marriage No Longer Consent, Nalubega Victoria questions how romance, money, family expectations and social pressure influence modern relationships.
DEAR SEX!
In Dear Sex!, George The Tired Poet personifies sex as a seductive companion. What begins with confidence and pleasure gradually becomes a cautionary poem about choices, consequences and sexual health.
