Dear Friends,
Happy 2025! As this new year unfolds, the writer’s journey, its many roads and seas, fascinates us, writers and readers alike, with fresh insights—and present day perspectives on our work, on impact, and sustainability.
I am delighted to invite you to a special event on Valentine’s Day, Friday 14th, at Alliance Française, Nairobi. We will launch When Love Says Goodbye, an extraordinary collection of poems by Scholastica Moraa that began its journey in Kenya and Italy, in English and Italian, in 2023. Already, When Love Says Goodbye is in its second printing in Kenya. We invite all poetry lovers—all lovers even!—to join the author as we celebrate love, heartbreak, and the power of poetry to inspire, arouse, reflect, break, and tell us who we are.
From the poem that gave Schola’s book its title:
It is terrifying how love comes into your life
And shows you things you never knew
Gives you things you never thought you wanted.
This collection is a Gen Z poetic diary that resonates in waves, page by page by poem. When Love Says Goodbye is now available at Nuria Bookstore, Prestige Bookshop, Kibanga Books, Soma Nami Books, and Bookstop. I hope you'll join us on Valentine's Day at Alliance Française beginning at 4pm for an intimate evening of poetry, love, and reflection. We warmly invite you to be part of this special experience. Please find the official invitation here. I look forward to seeing you there.
Warmest regards,
Will