DON’T LOVE ME IN ENGLISH by Bridget Ankunda

“Someone tell Susan Kiguli
she is not the only one tired of talking
in metaphors. Ask her what language
she uses these days, Coz this tongue
has failed me.
My brother too.

“Now he runs from city
to city trying on different tongues
hoping one will stick. He calls home
from bars in foreign lands,
telling us how things should be done,
sweeping rooms he cannot see.

“In case you’re wondering,
this is how you sweep a room
you cannot see: start in the corner,
hit the walls you cannot see with
your fists. When they shake, pretend
they are shoulders, shaking with laughter,
pretend they are dancing, not crumbling.”

-ROOMS & DUST

BRIDGET ANKUNDA has loved poetry ever since she wrote a little poem about food when she was eleven. She fell in love with performance when her teacher let her recite the little poem in class and later at a school function at St Thereza Namagunga Boarding Primary School. She later attended Mt. St. Mary’s College Namagunga for secondary school where she was deeply involved in writing for the school’s magazine and in 2017 she became President of the Writers’ Club. She wrote the winning drama skits for the National SWAS Convention 2017 and 2018. As a member of the Kitara Nation ‘Verse in Vac’ poetry project, Ankunda won the award Best Recitation at the ACDEG Poetry Award 2019 for her poem ROOMS & DUST. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Law at the School of Law, Makerere University, where she is also a junior editor of the Makerere Law Journal.  This is her first poetry collection.

Publishing Particulars of the Book

ISBN:  9-798654-857293
Format:  Paperback & Kindle
Language:  English
Number Of Pages: 64
Published: 2020
Publisher: Kitara Nation