MAAFA Oliver Reynolds

MAAFA Oliver ReynoldsMAAFA is an epic poem about reparations and the female body. MAAFA undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity. Maafa has killed her father and been granted eternal life. Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Voelker Award for Poetry Collection Maafa is Swahili for catastrophe or holocaust, and echoes the Hebrew word Shoah. Without a word for a traumatic event, its erasure is always in progress. Maafa killed her father in the barracoons because the

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scrutinize and shoulder the histories that hammer the self into existence

hear and learn”

O bosib y ffordd fwyaf adnabyddus yng Nghymru

Politics vie with passion as Private Michael Flaherty pays court to Rose

he has been working as a journalist in Dublin for the past 23 years

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she is called on in every poem

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and a wilful desire to break conventional genres

discovering that male comrades in the struggle could be abusers at home

Though there is great sadness along the way