CONTENT WARNING: EVERYTHING

 49pp., paperback, Reprint, London, (2023) 2024

First published in the USA in 2022.

A debut collection of poems.

"A triumph of selfhood that painstakingly journeys between belief and becoming. Holding tenderness and rage in one breath, the Nigerian-born nonbinary author excavates trauma, divorce and loss without restraint ... Illuminates a complicated past, expels antiquated what-ifs and allows readers to share in the possibilities underscored by a wholly original and creative mind" New York Times

"Emezi has combined Maya Angelou's passion and Sylvia Plath's devastating self-inquisition to create an edgy music that frightens and astonishes" Guardian

Akwaeke Emezi is the author of the romance You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, the novels Freshwater and The Death of Vivek Oji, the young adult novels Pet and Bitter, and Dear Senthuran: A black spirit memoir (2022 ALA Stonewall Prize for Best Nonfiction Book).