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.
THE BOMB
In The Bomb, Omadang Yowasi turns a conversation with his deceased father into a striking meditation on memory, ancestry and inheritance. Through the haunting image of bones as bombs, the poem asks what remains of a parent within the child after death.
UPON THIS COUNTRY ROAD
In Upon This Country Road, Dickson Mukisa turns a changing road to his grandmother’s home into a reflection on family, Christmas homecomings, ageing, memory and mortality.
THE GREAT UNITER
In The Great Uniter, Jeremiah Okallany reflects on death, grief and memory, exploring the paradox of how losing someone can bring families and communities closer together.
