We’re All Made of Lightning
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ISBN 9780473623050
We’re All Made of Lightning is the debut poetry collection from Wellington-based writer Khadro Mohamed. Mohamed expertly navigates the experience of being a Muslim women in Aotearoa, bringing us along on her journey of selfhood. Shifting between Aotearoa, Egypt and Somalia, we get a glimpse into her worlds, which are rich and full of life. Mohamed has a sense of wonder for the world around her, exploring nature, food, family and identity. This book is a love letter to her homeland, her whakapapa, and herself.
Khadro Mohamed is a 24 year old writer and poet residing on the shores of Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She’s originally from Somalia and has a deep connection with her whakapapa, which is often a huge source of inspiration for her poetry. You can find bits of her writing floating around Newtown in Food Court Books and in online magazines such as: Starling, Salient Magazine, Pantograph Punch, The Spinoff and more.
Published by Tender Press, May 2022
Soft cover, 91 pages
130x200mm, upright
Wholesale $13.00 + GST
RRP $25.00
ISBN 9780473623050
We’re All Made of Lightning is the debut poetry collection from Wellington-based writer Khadro Mohamed. Mohamed expertly navigates the experience of being a Muslim women in Aotearoa, bringing us along on her journey of selfhood. Shifting between Aotearoa, Egypt and Somalia, we get a glimpse into her worlds, which are rich and full of life. Mohamed has a sense of wonder for the world around her, exploring nature, food, family and identity. This book is a love letter to her homeland, her whakapapa, and herself.
Khadro Mohamed is a 24 year old writer and poet residing on the shores of Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She’s originally from Somalia and has a deep connection with her whakapapa, which is often a huge source of inspiration for her poetry. You can find bits of her writing floating around Newtown in Food Court Books and in online magazines such as: Starling, Salient Magazine, Pantograph Punch, The Spinoff and more.
Published by Tender Press, May 2022
Soft cover, 91 pages
130x200mm, upright
Wholesale $13.00 + GST
RRP $25.00
ISBN 9780473623050
We’re All Made of Lightning is the debut poetry collection from Wellington-based writer Khadro Mohamed. Mohamed expertly navigates the experience of being a Muslim women in Aotearoa, bringing us along on her journey of selfhood. Shifting between Aotearoa, Egypt and Somalia, we get a glimpse into her worlds, which are rich and full of life. Mohamed has a sense of wonder for the world around her, exploring nature, food, family and identity. This book is a love letter to her homeland, her whakapapa, and herself.
Khadro Mohamed is a 24 year old writer and poet residing on the shores of Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She’s originally from Somalia and has a deep connection with her whakapapa, which is often a huge source of inspiration for her poetry. You can find bits of her writing floating around Newtown in Food Court Books and in online magazines such as: Starling, Salient Magazine, Pantograph Punch, The Spinoff and more.
Published by Tender Press, May 2022
Soft cover, 91 pages
130x200mm, upright
Praise
“These vivid, urgent poems stayed with me. Each poem is its own world of taste and colour: rainwater, moss, wind, a confluence of languages that mirrors the flow of rivers. Khadro Mohamed is an exciting new voice in the poetry of Aotearoa.”
—Nina Mingya Powles
“Through her epic storytelling, Khadro unpicks the many layers of the refugee experience. This is a brilliant and insightful poetic journey.”
—Abbas Nazari
“Khadro has taken loneliness and cloaked it in images - fireflies in mason jars, foamy goat’s milk, pāua shell and pōhutukawa, her mother's braids. She has cloaked it to brave weather: storms and bright hot sun. She has cloaked it to brave hate and malignant fear, she has cloaked it in languages, the beauty of languages, and has let this loneliness walk from Egypt to Aotearoa and back again. She has taken loneliness and made something vibrant.”
—Becky Manawatu