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Last year quivered us into barren climate, voluble longitude broadcast thick situations across our lungs, we shapeshifted from fragile maggots to calibrated caterpillars, thirst for freedom trapped in our throats,…

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Poetry

Heaven. Hell. Heavell.

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Heaven. Fluttering wings in airful embrace Glistening soles garbed in Efun’s crust Like the white man’s chalk – sprinkled on gates in sunspots. Hell. Seat of the cinders of the…

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Poetry

Mother Ochíchí

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Mother Ochichi, You bare your naked breasts like nectars To the suckling pleasure of your children Whose helpless dehydrated throats seek succour To quell & quench the runnels running thirsty…

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Poetry

Roadside

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(after Praise Osawaru) while I await the Uber driver like a sinner who waits for salvation in God’s house under the scorching sun my eyes record two scenarios at the…

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Poetry

Pangs of Motherhood

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Before you, O’ Mother Earth, Bring we our sacrifices of blood. Blood from painful childbirth, Blood from the monthly flow. Out from the ground of dearth, Our bodies are left…

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Poetry

Enigma

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the sun gently touched my skin under the canopy of sycamore. at the tweaking of bamboo trees, the moon opened my eyes to stories; of a crippled man on the…

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Poetry

Black Nights

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In this black room, with two soaked pillows, Rinsed in mucus and in tears; With these red eyes, in misty billows, Thoughts of fury and of sneers. Oh Lord, Who…

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Poetry

I am the Tree of Life and Death

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…the tree trunk saps tears from her scarred belly & the wind wipes it off like drops of rain on windscreen but when leaves wave worrying weights off their neck,…

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Interviews

Repositioning 21st Century African Literature: a Conversation with Nnamdi Oguike

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Nnamdi Oguike is a Nigerian writer. He won a Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship in 2019. His debut collection of short stories set in over ten countries in Africa and…

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The Shallow Tales Review announces poet, Temani Nkalolang as issue 31 poetry guest editor

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We are very excited and privileged to announce the amazing award-winning Motswana poet, Temani Nkalolang, as poetry guest editor for the 31st issue of The Shallow Tales Review literary magazine. Temani…

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