The book has landed🌺🌻🌼
What a beauty, what a joy! Gratitude, gratitude
The Kreol Isles of the Indian Ocean in 78 pages
A debut poetry shaped from 10 years of reflection on the last 500 years of genocidal distress
Reaching the hands of @alexispauline who made possible the life that it will now have. Thank you🧡
To the lineage of people behind the work, the form, the thoughts, to the two generous peer reviewers and the editorial team, to Dipa Mahbuba Yasmin for the illustrations
To the readers and the conversations ahead
Two poems as offerings here, one that started as a diary entry and the second after a trip to Rodrigues, beloved sister island
Feeling truly blessed
Reading from unrest in the nebulae (Duke UP 2026)
📆Saturday 26 May
🕟3:30-5 pm Panel Undoing @decolonial_network
📍LG02 Prof Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths, London SE14 6NW
Link in bio. See you there!!
Looking forward to my first London reading from unrest in the nebulae (Duke University Press 2026)
📆Saturday 16 May
🕟3:30-5 pm Panel ‘Undoing’
📍LG02 Prof. Stuart Hall Building Goldsmiths (back to the alma mater)
Thank you @eiji_yasuhara for inviting me.
Register!! LINK IN BIO
Bonzour ! Wrote up a review of Gitan Djeli’s prose poetry unrest in the nebulae for Island Pieces on our Substack. We write about how poetry resists consumption, and how we should butt heads with poems, no matter how long it takes for us to absorb and understand its essence, no matter how short the stanza is. A reminder that adding poetry to one’s life is akin to adding pockets of sunlight in one’s day! Also a reminder to read (and write) more poems in and with Kreol Morisien. Mersi @gitan_djeli pou sa travay poetik, politik ek rezistan ✊🏾🤎🌴
Illustration credits: @freddynovation
In “unrest in the nebulae,” Gitan Djeli wields prose poetry to archive five hundred years of exploitative colonization, ecocide, extinction, militarization and deportation, slavery, indenture, negotiated nationhood, postcolonial plantation structures, and apologist histories. Use coupon E26DJELI to save 30% and learn more at the link in our bio. #Poetry #Postcolonial #NewBooks
