THIS IS an imaginative excursion into a labyrinth of love, purity, violence, pandemic, climate change, leadership, and advocacy. Amrah Aliyu's Breasts Are Names of Flowers captures these mortal intricacies in a deft radical tone-a tone that punctuates and punches the chicanery around our humanity. This is a great feminine voice from the North!
-SOJI COLE, Winner, ANA Playwriting Prize Winner, NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature.
AMRAH'S POEMS capture the ineluctable in fleeting, unexpected images, presenting a bold and brave new voice of the poet as ingenue, daughter, feminist, militant.
-RICHARD ALI, Author, The Anguish and Vigilance of Things.
AMRAH ALIYU'S Breasts Are Names of Flowers is a new fragrance that invokes and provokes in the strokes of every verse. It follows you everywhere!
-SALAMATU SULE, poet, book reviewer, author of Orchestra of Her Last Rite
Breasts Are Names of Flowers evokes a strong feminineness that define the persona in the poems. The thematic focus of the poems in this collection oscillates between the sad exploitation of the vulnerability of the female at the hands of the malevolent male and the bliss and protection she feels wrapped in the loving arms of a benevolent lover.
-AMINU SHEIK, Writer and Founder, the Arts-Muse Fair
I FEEL strangely dipped in a stream of warmed-words, where every piece in this collection leads me into an epiphany. Brilliant work"
-HADER OTAKI, Author of Give Me A Word
AMRAH ALIYU'S poetry is as tender as it is magnificent. She writes about love-romantic, familial, platonic-in a way that both soothes and inspires. This book here is a collection of various degrees of softness, love, and profoundness. It begins first as passionate, then slowly it infiltrates itself into tenderness. A whole gift. I recommend it.
-HAUWA SHAFII NUHU
AMRAH ALIYU is a women and girl's rights advocate. She has ample experience in the implementation of media advocacy. She is passionate about leveraging traditional and social media, creative writing, social works, and community outreach to create a safe environment for the vulnerable in her community. For the past years, her activism has focused on creating realistic awareness around gender inclusivity and gender-based violence. She has experiences working for both radio and television. She is the founder of SA Foundation for Women & Girls Support; a non-profit organisation designed to make women and girls develop skill-sets that will guarantee positive impacts in their lives. Her works can be found via @amrahaliyu (IG, Twitter & TikTok).
