And the Secrets are Shouted-Whispered | by Gia Mawusi

And the Secrets are Shouted-Whispered is a new pamphlet of poems in English and Portuguese, and a short story, by Gia Mawusi.

Contents:

Zagaias

A Poem in 3 Takes

The Fence

RUÍNAS / Ruins

Too many foreigners / The fear voices

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

I am who I am

INSTANTÂNEO / Instantaneous

O MICROSCÓPIO / The Microscope

Black

SOLIDÃO / Solitude

RAIOS DE SOL / Rays of Sun

Northern Sea

War

GRITO / Scream

Within the Waves (Short story)

The pamphlet also includes “Peace and a Dove”: a conversation between Gia Mawusi & Lotte L.S. about poetry and everything in between.

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68 pages, A5 | Edited, typeset & published by red herring press in Great Yarmouth.
Cover illustration by Zoja Petrošiūtė | First printing March 2024.

£5 including UK shipping. | £9 including shipping to rest of world. | £3.50 to Great Yarmouth residents: collect from red herring press, 135 King Street, Great Yarmouth (or get in touch).

Free to anyone who can't afford it. Get in touch: [email protected]

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from ‘The Microscope’:

The crowd.

A sea of people walking

In the world of anonymity

Losing each other

Mixing, confusing themselves

Within the deafening noise of their footsteps...

The silence.

Permanent state of the soul

Where the ambitions and weariness

Of the insignificant people dwell

Who still dare to dream

With an impossible and pitiful

Place at the sun...

Freedom.

Pretty word for publicity

Veil of protection for all the atrocity

Perpetuated in the name of Fraternity...

Poetry.

The Lie-Truth that shouts

Within the soul.

The dream.

Open wound

That increases sorrow!

The world.

Supreme disillusion

Deep, deep well...

Little happiness

For all those who are not dead.