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“Sublime as resurrection and subtly powerful, Everything is a Deathly Flower is part prayer, part potent balm for sexual assault survivors. With every reading, there is greater certainty that Mohale has achieved something profound for their community and for African poetry.” - Megan Ross, New Frame
“Mohale is only twenty-seven years old, and yet they command, not only language, but politics, emotions, in a way that very few writers do. The book is filled with sentences, sensibilities, that are molded in perfection.” - Lidudumalingani, The Johannesburg Review of Books
“Everything is a Deathly Flower (uHlanga), is a haunting collection of poems in which Mohale details in lush, deeply affecting language, how they have grappled with coming to terms with being a survivor of queer sexual abuse.” - Carl Collison, The Mail & Guardian
“For many writers, the process of writing can be a purification and purgation of emotions, a renewal and restoration, but Mohale speaks of it as “a very painful process punctuated with little miraculous moments of discovery, a container for complicated truths”. Maneo Mohale is a prolific and thoughtful writer, editor and storyteller.” - Nkgopoleng Moloi, Artskop
“Reading this work is like listening to an Esperanza Spalding and Nina Simone collaboration album, a duet between thorns and petals that is both piercing and serene." - Nickita Maesela, City Press
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