Thoughts Hunt The Loves is a selection of Jeton Kelmendi’s 54 poems which come from his two collections, Thoughts Hunt The Loves and I Knocked My Mind Against The Window, which were translated into Southern Africa’s biggest language, Shona. The original poems are in Albanian. It has poems that are as deep as the ocean’s bottom, philosophical ruminations, old wise insights, patriotic dreams, a love stage as high as the heavens, ruminations about the war, living in exile and the constant ache, or drive to want to unite his country Albania to be one country...; his poems are panoply of feelings, thoughts, reservations, residues that are brought up for us to devour in, in this magnificent collection.

"Ouafa and Thawra is a nomadic collection: well-travelled and restless, but with roots firmly in revolutionary Tunisia, a tumultuous country “where people are sweet/ where even the hypocrisy is sweet.” Arturo Desimone travels fearlessly between genres, too, with sketches deepening the reading experience and a postscript essay on Tunisia before and after the ‘Arab Spring’ adding context to the poems (and offering the controversial but sound claim that the Arab Spring was catalysed by the events of 2003 in Iraq). Desimone is wholly original: his poems simultaneously draw on a breathtaking, freewheeling sense of linguistic innovation, and on a timeless well of imagery and mythology." - Jacob Silkstone, managing editor of Asymptote journal, co-founder of The Missing Slate.

When Escape Becomes the only Lover is a continuation and crystallization of issues dealt with in A Portrait of Defiance. The poet deals with a broad subject matter, love in all its forms, spirituality; this spirituality is individual it is the artist’s spiritual world. He deals with dreams, voice, word, numbers, poet’s vocation, wars, language, etc… He is the prophet of his dreams, his world, his future… There is strong experimentation and innovativeness in the writing, in the text, in form, in style, in content matter, the writer is a discoverer, every horizon is a life horizon. There is the dissecting of that space where art criticism meets art mimesis, and this space is offered as the future of art criticism. The storyteller refuses to die thus the collection proffers escape as the ultimate lover who can help us deal with the insanities of our time.

"From invisibility to invincibility, Mikateko takes us through verses of despair, assault, discrimination, fear and hopelessness that girls and women encountered in a system that does not serve their interests to the life of purpose, power and freedom that girls and women continue to wedge in the face of all odds. This is one anthology that has the power to break and mend you. Mikateko has freed us all!" - Dr. Toyin Ajao (PhD), Researcher, Teacher and Storyteller

Zimbolicious Anthology: An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts, Vol 5 is the fifth in this yearly journal of Zimbabwean literature and the arts as it happens. The poetry covers a range of subjects; love, spirituality, religion, migration, poet's vocation and as usual the political direction or situation in the country. The fiction deals with a wide range issues, from religious contrivance in Gwiriri's story, drug problem and corruption in Mutize's story, the political and economic strife in Tokwe's story, and the personal trauma story in Chikomo's car accident story. In the nonfiction section we have Muchuri's illuminating essay on another Zimbabwe storyteller, Ignatious Mabasa's Shona books, Zvikomborero Kapuya harks back to the land issue as the starting point and catapult to the misunderstandings between Zimbabwe and her erstwhile foreign enemies, Chikono writes his painful life story on shame families carry when a family member has a child out of wedlock, worst when the child is disabled and Mwanaka has a small philosophical vignette essay on choice. The visual section is heralded by Nhevera's iconic brushworks depicting movement and portraiture, and Mwanaka has an array of art pieces from documentary photography, experimental photography, water colour, computer graphic and installation, wrapping up this new offering.

"When I vision through the seas of oppression and the grinding poverty I write not out anger but righteous indignation." Jabulani Mzinyathi was born of isiNdebele and ChiShona speaking parents in the Midlands Province of the then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He has published pieces in various journals and anthologies over the years and his maiden collection of poetry Under The Steel Yoke, was published in 2018.

Gabriel Awuah Mainoo is an award winning writer, a tennis professional, lyricist and playwright studying at the University of Cape Coast whose poem ‘Taunt’ won best satire of the year 2017 on VOAP: Voices of African poets. He serves as project manager to Ghana writes literary group and creative editor to WGM: Writers Global Movement magazine. His first published work ‘Afri-lad’ appeared on YMCA, 2016. Mainoo is an international anthologized poet who has featured on several journals, he is a contributor to Best New African Poets 2018, Bodies & Scars anthology, and poetry leaves bound volume among others. His next projects are three collections: ‘60 Aces of Haiku’, ‘Lyrical Textiles’ and ‘Chicken Wings’, a Christmas haiku. Many of his works, sometimes esoteric are well-known for their wonderful lyrical propensity and spontaneity. Critics affirm that his remarkable weave of words marks him as the ‘Lyricist Extraordinaire’.