The Shelf

Fresh from the Nib

and on the shelf this week…

Poetry

Old river

A drift through memory lanes and the quiet aging of love. An ode to life and love, from river to the sea.

A protester holds an 'I Can't Breathe' sign during a demonstration on a bridge.
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Slavery, racism and western capitalism

Understanding primitive accumulation of labour and the normalisation of a social order that made Western wealth appear earned rather than taken.

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Chotobela / Childhood

Dad bought something which became a window to the world. Somewhere between then and now, both the world and my wonder changed shape.

Poetry

Absence

A meditation on waiting, on loss that hasn’t fully arrived, and on the fragile courage it takes to sit beside it.