Foreign in a Long-Familiar Leap Year

Name: Foreign in a Long-Familiar Leap Year
SKU: 118686
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Foreign in a Long-Familiar Leap Year is a year shaped into poems. The collection flows through a calendar of thresholds, poems pinned to every month of the year but unmoored from certainty.
From January’s breathless departure to December’s weary survival, the voice shifts registers as the seasons demand. Colloquial rant, cosmic reverie, split confession-each month refusing to settle into one tone, much like a leap year itself refuses coherence.
Here, lyric and ledger collide. Tender refrains sit beside word-breaking experiments, train platforms beside satirical trickster, winter drizzle beside grotesque decay.
The poems ask again and again what it means to begin, to endure, to return, to become.

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About the Author

Salmah Salam Oiza is a Nigerian writer, poet, and literary curator based in the UK. She is drawn to stories and characters that resist binaries and often explores the intersectionality of faith, feminism and identity. Her writing has appeared in Brittle Paper, JAY Literature, Breadfruit Magazine, and others. She is the author of Foreign in a Long-Familiar Leap Year. Outside writing, Salmah is the curator of the World Economic Forum, Birmingham Global Shapers Hub, and runs a personal lifestyle blog on dearsalmah.co.uk. She enjoys watching sappy rom coms, making elaborate tea rituals and being thoroughly bossed around by her cats.