RUBBLE, poems

54pp., paperback, Botsotso, Johannesburg, 2025

ISBN: 9781776495207

This collection includes poems that honour Muslim religious and political leaders who inspired the poet with their acts of resistance to apartheid; poems expressing solidarity with the oppressed, whether in Syria or on the Cape Flats, as well as poems that explore family relationships.

Includes drawings by Glen Arendse.

Abu Bakr Solomons worked as a teacher on the Cape Flats. He is the author of two previous poetry collections, A season of tenderness and dread and Inhabiting Love.