I Sugar The Bones

Jabez Incarnate is the debut poetry pamphlet from Nigerian-British artist Jolad Olusanya. Written in the wake of spiritual reckoning and personal transition, the collection explores the burdens of inheritance, masculinity, faith, memory, and belonging. Olusanyas poems travel between London, Lagos, and New York, where familial duty and the weight of culture clash and harmonise. Rooted in the language of the everyday and the epic, Jabez Incarnate is a sustained meditation on lineage, distance, and what it means to carry names, promises and absences. Through striking lyricism and cinematic frames, Olusanya captures moments of soft resistance men at barbershops, prayer in public, grief on public transport evoking a sense of a person trying to navigate who he is, and who he must become.

Product Information

Author: Jolade Olusanya
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 03/07/2025
Series: N/A
Imprint: Out-Spoken Press
Published By: Out-Spoken Press
Book Classification: Poetry by individual poets
Dimensions: 215 x 139 x 4
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781068671272