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Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment.| what I’m reading and writing in the holidays. hello loves. it’s the final days until christmas and i’ve been off work since 12.31pm thursday 19 december. so far it has been a beautiful few days of doing as i want alarm-free and hiding in my apartment. or meeting up with friends. absolutely no in between. socialising or hibernating. i’m now heading home for a fe

hello loves. as black history month comes to an end, i wanted to share some of my favourite poetry collections from black writers that i have enjoyed. the reading list could be longer but i’ve selected a few writers who mean something special to me. black history month 2019. this black history month has felt a bit slow. maybe chairing the black and ethnic minority society during my uni days meant that i was used to black history coming into life with a bang on 1st october wit

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment | ‘the power’ book review. hello loves today i’m finally sharing my thoughts on my recent read, the power by naomi alderman. surprisingly this wasn’t a book i chose for myself, i hadn’t even heard the hype around it either. mum bought this one for me. my mum has gotten into the habit of gifting me books that i can obsess over. it started with Haruk

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment. hello loves as promised in my last post , here is my book review about my favourite book of the year (so far). jesmyn ward’s ‘sing, unburied, sing’ is a beautiful testiment to memory attached to land and the healing that accompanies that process. it is a wow. overview | the lyricism laced in the novel is addictive. but the harshness of the world t

Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment. hello loves another book post because if i understand anything about autumn it is the requirement to drink 4+ cups of tea, candles lit, by the heater with the best book life can supply. earlier on in the year i wrote a post reviewing a selection of books that meant much to me in the moment. i’m gonna do that again here, but for this moment. and in

hello loves i hope everybody is still treating themselves kindly in light of the new year. i hope you are still listening to yourself. it is so important. i am trying to find out what is important to me, whose voice, whose words, which part of the world, which part of my life etc. the likes of Maya Angelou and others reviewed in this post are included in that faction, i now can say.  i’ve been committed to reading what i want post-graduation. it is important that i give mysel