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Books I’ve Read in 2018 #5 ‘Millefiori’ by @omarbinmusa Anything I say here will fall far from doing justice to the strength and beauty of the poems held in Omar Musa’s latest collection. The opening poem, ‘The Boys’, is a guttural cry which begins an ebb and flow of ideas, experiences and emotions that leads all the way through to the end. Standouts for me include ‘Ceiling Fan’, ‘eat our myths’ and the notebook snippets for ‘Alchemy’ but there is not a single poem in these pages that is not powerful or provoking. I cannot encourage you enough to pick this one up, it is a stunning collection of work. #millefiori #omarmusa #houlart #houl #minimonotonebookclub #booksivereadin2018

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My Generation, Omar Musa "...We made love between oil spills and massacres, tangoed between the headlines of history, flitting between hush love making and murder, draughts of cool wine and hellish salt pans wimpling with dancing mirages that brought brief joy to our desiccated hearts. My generation never stopped being children.  We grew wearier, but not wiser,  we grew older, but not up,  and our only possessions were our winged imaginations, sitting on the brim of the ocean,  waiting for the tide to bring something in."