Memory of Departure is a restless, luminous poetry collection that moves through love, desire, loss, and belief with raw intimacy. These poems are grounded in the body and the land, where harmattan dust, moonlight, rain, and skin all carry memory. Moments of eros blur into devotion, childhood scenes open into history, and longing becomes a way of seeing the world more clearly.
Across these pages, Ismail Bala writes with musical precision and emotional daring, tracing how we leave, return, and remake ourselves. This is a book about motion and ache, about what endures after love, after faith, after violence, after home. Memory of Departure understands leaving not as an ending, but as the pulse that keeps us alive.
Across these pages, Ismail Bala writes with musical precision and emotional daring, tracing how we leave, return, and remake ourselves. This is a book about motion and ache, about what endures after love, after faith, after violence, after home. Memory of Departure understands leaving not as an ending, but as the pulse that keeps us alive.
