Eke: Poems

By Wahidah Tambee

Top Reads of 2025, Shawn Hoo, The Straits Times

Ms. Magazine's Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026

"Shimmer s] at the edges of language, where sense becomes sensuous and shifts us away from our habits of silence and speech." -Divya Victor, author of Kith and Curb

"Exquisite, tantalising construction." -Shubigi Rao, author, Pulp III: An Intimate Inventory of the Banished Book, and winner, Singapore Literature Prize 2024

A visual enactment of attempts at articulating, Eke is the at-tempt-ation towards meaning.

What does the feeling of holding your words and thoughts back-stuck and struck in a state of percolation, a plasma state of signification-feel like? What does it look like for ambivalence and divergence to converge during the moment of articulation, when all word-opportunities collide at once, like wildly unspooling threads, like heavy raindrops on a glass surface racing from one fork to the next?

A collection of visual aberrations that fumble and stammer, and that concede that a closure in expression can never be achieved, the poems of Eke ache towards both painful and opportune expression.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1958652172
• ISBN13: 9781958652176
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Gaudy Boy, LLC
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"