Adam Seven Rooms

Adam Seven RoomsGboyega Odubanjo 'On 21 September 2001, the torso of a black boy was discovered in the River Thames, near Tower Bridge in central London, clothed only in an orange pair of girls shorts. Given the name Adam by police officers, the unidentified boy was between four and eight years old. What comes next cannot without a story of water and offering. The sun shines and we gather because the river allows it. Na from clap dem dey enter dance. We enter with,

Appearing here in English for the first time

bringing some remarkable works back into print in the process and introducing poems which have never before been translated

which spit you a thousand feet into the air but keep your viewpoint fixed on the same spot as before—what's different

political and aesthetic liberty

These are poems nourished in an oral tradition

After years of writing and organizing against the regime of Omar al-Bashir

Victoria Bulley

quarantine quatrains

Het maakt niet uit haast waar je bent

Boston Review en Los Angeles Review of Books

conversation

aangetast landschap als op een leven dat voorbijglijdt voor je het weet