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i share this with you allbecause a green boathas since come to collect mei saw a ghanaian fishermanmoored on the thames and i didn’t think twice as i sailed away This is a book which excavates identity and self-knowledge, a journey from the spiritual realm which also attempts to stitch whole the frayed fibres of diasporic belonging. The areas explored range from Africa to spiritual awakening taking the reader on a journey to self. Soukeyna Osei-Bonsu’s verse evokes the beauty of the earthly and spiritual realms of human experience, navigating a poetic course from London to Ghana through themes of belonging and faith.in the basement of the heartcartographies of dispossession occupy the rhythm Her poems dance at the intersection between the mundane and the sacred, weaving the everyday through with perceptions of the eternal, the ancient and the evanescent.i thumb through each black orb, counting the timebreath and matter, life and death, another human storywith the same rosary that made its way to methat may outlive my fingerspurchase these nights before they purchase yourain pouring into the lake at lordship recand a hundred and one purple clouds pulsating-the edge of our galaxy almost visible through the london smogAbout the AuthorSoukeyna Osei-Bonsu is an African writer and poet born in Bordeaux, France and based in London, UK. A SOAS Anthropology and International Relations graduate, her work explores African belonging and identity as well as Tasawwuf / the spiritual dimension of Islam. Soukeyna is involved in Black activism and runs several projects for the Black community in North London. She is co-founder and EIC of MZAB magazine, a quarterly online publication which explores adventure, culture and spirituality, and in her spare time has a keen interest in global healing practices, ritual and film production.
