The New Carthaginians by Nick Makoha Maria Stepanova Named for a street in

Named for a street in Sheffield

giving room to states of flux and flow in the body

which represents the book itself as 'a star-surrounded totem pole/ With carvings of all the creatures'

and the price we pay for belonging

The New Carthaginians by Nick Makoha Maria Stepanova Named for a street inIn The New Carthaginians, time and with it the world is out of joint. A hijacked plane lands at Entebbe International Airport in 1976, triggering the crisis that leads to Uganda becoming a pariah state and later to the young Makoha's escape from the country. Concerned throughout with flight and falling, the sample and the loop, The New Carthaginians is a poetry collection of staggering originality: a work by an author at the height of his powers, in