Songbook by Joshua Idehen
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation
debut the poems in that book

the poems in that book offered support and sustenance

” – Pascale Petit

The World's Wife

This favours the south of the island over the north rebuilt piecemeal after the end of the civil war in 2009

Songbook by Joshua Idehen<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation</b><br> debut the poems in that bookWe know where we came from. We came on boats, on planes, with passports and on the back of trucks. We worked three jobs and sent the money back home. We brought our motherland to life in our kitchens, our bedrooms, our churches, our songs, our dance, our sex, our pidgin, our patois Joshua Idehens collected works has been a long time coming. Songbook comprises verses from Mercury nominated and MOBO winning albums by Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is