A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
A Poem Where Babies Cry, Prostitutes Curse, and Even the Thames Has Morally Checked Out ABS Believes:Blake didn’t just walk through London—he did a mental autopsy on its conscience.An unreal city doesn’t need CGI—it just needs indifference, smog, and well-dressed despair. Blake the Visionary: Prophet in a Sewer-Cloaked City William Blake was that guy who […]
A Poem Where Palaces Float, Rivers Run Deep, and No One’s Entirely Sober ABS Believes:This poem wasn’t written—it wandered in.Sometimes a dream builds better architecture than any empire can. Coleridge: Poet, Prophet, and Possibly Too Close to the Poppy Fields Let’s begin with a quick historical footnote: Kubla Khan is what happens when you mix
A Poem Where Nature Bakes Itself Golden and Sings Softly About Rotting Beautifully ABS Believes:Keats didn’t just write about Autumn—he airbrushed it with metaphor and sprinkled it with warm-toned immortality.Some seasons don’t fade. They ferment. John Keats: The Master of Melancholic Ripeness If Shakespeare had a botanical cousin who wept over sunsets and hallucinated the
A Poem Where Pain Bows, Darkness Waits, and the Poet’s Spine Doesn’t Flinch ABS Believes:Some poems wear armor. This one is the armor.If dignity had a literary anthem, it would rhyme like this and walk like thunder. Henley: Poet, Amputee, and Unshakable Human Tank William Ernest Henley didn’t write Invictus to impress the Victorian literati.
A Poem Where Regret Wears Slippers and Affection Heats the House Before Dawn ABS Believes:Some poems are whispers you hear years later.Love isn’t always loud—it’s sometimes just boots, cold air, and someone waking up too early for your comfort. Robert Hayden: The Poet of the Unsaid Hayden didn’t write to dazzle. He wrote to unearth.
A Poem Where Life Isn’t Crystal, But You Better Climb It Anyway ABS Believes:Life won’t lay down a carpet—it’ll throw you a splintered staircase and expect grace in every limp.Sometimes the most powerful poetry comes from a tired woman who didn’t ask for metaphors but had plenty. Langston Hughes: The Bard of Bare Truths Langston
From Indigenous power to postcolonial punchlines, gender rebellions to literary reinventions—Australia writes with bite now. By ABS, who believes that modern Australian fiction has learned to throw boomerangs made of metaphor—and they rarely miss. f early Australian literature was written on the backs of convicts and mid-century fiction was dipped in despair, then modern AusLit
AusLit-3 Outback, Outrage, and the Urban Shift: The Many Moods of Modern OzLit Read More »
Migration, Memory, and the Global Gaze on African Pain—Exported, Exoticized, and Finally Explained From ABS, Who Believes that exile can write better novels than comfort ever will. Some left by choice.Some were pushed.Some boarded planes, only to find that customs didn’t check for grief, and memory couldn’t be declared. This is the African literary diaspora:
AfriLit-5. Diaspora Diaries: When African Writers Boarded Planes but Never Left Home Read More »
Colonialism, Culture Clashes, and Why Chinua Achebe Had Every Right to Be Annoyed From ABS, Who Believes stories survive empires, but sarcasm survives history. It begins, as most tragic tales do, with someone arriving uninvited. Long before PowerPoint presentations and TED Talks about “cultural sensitivity,” colonial powers marched into Africa with swords, Bibles, and the
AfriLit-1: When the Empire Brought a Pen and Took the Land Read More »