Kingdom of Gravity PDF Download. Download free ebook of Kingdom of Gravity in PDF format or read online by Nick Makoha 9781845233334 Published on 2017-03-06 by Peepal Tree Press
In direct narrative terms the poems in this collection relate to the horrors of the civil war that ousted the brutal tyranny of Idi Amin in Uganda, a war of liberation that brought its own barbarous atrocities. In political terms the poems chart the impact of imperialism and neo-colonialism that lay behind those traumas in the life of the nation. In personal terms, the poems are framed between the contrary pulls of attachment and flight, exile and longing. At their heart is an unwavering curiosity about how people behave in extreme situations, and what this reveals about our common human capacities to indulge grandiose visions, betray them, dissemble, seek revenge and kill. There is no presumption of innocence. There may be flight, but there is no standing aside. The narrator can dream (but is it a dream?) of a |dead man/who has been stung by the invisible bee of my bullet|. There is much darkness of reference in the collection, but also a hopeful search for truthfulness and trust as the only things that matter. The poems - as poems of grace, control and beauty of image - demonstrate the power of the best poetry to speak of difficult things in a way that enlightens, not merely horrifies. The care in the making and shaping of the poems bears witness to the evident fact that for Nick Makoha poetry became |This rock [...] a sanctuary from which I can repair the ruins|. Nick Makoha's debut collection is named for the 2015 Brunel University African Poetry Prize-winning poem |Kingdom of Gravity|.
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