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Flood Season

  • ISBN-13: 9781905233762
  • Publisher: FLIPPED EYE
    Imprint: FLIPPED EYE
  • By Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr
  • Price: AUD $10.99
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  • Local release date: 02/03/2022
  • Format: Paperback (210.00mm X 140.00mm) 44 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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After over a decade working as a musician under the name Kae Sun, Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr. makes a full-blooded return to the bones of his craft - poetic exploration and wordplay. His debut pamphlet, Flood Season, begins with seeds of perennial flooding, a phenomenon as familiar to residents of Accra as it is to residents of Assam, and blossoms into an exploration of diasporic belonging, the tensions between who we are and the cliches that surround our nation states. Ultimately, the poems hint that we might all be routinely, "caught in the delicate act of restraining/ Home in clasped hands/ Held to the ear, listening for a way back". Flood Season carries the weight of its musings with an ease akin to water uprooting a misplaced house, and fizzes with the joy of a burst dam.
Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr. is a Ghanaian-born, Montreal-based artist and writer who records and performs music as Kae Sun. His genre-defying approach to music and writing is anchored in poetry and deals with existential musings on heritage, belonging and desire. His work has appeared in publications such as Exclaim, Complex, Vogue Germany and Vice Magazine. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.
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