{"title":"Shams Alkamil","description":"\u003cp\u003eShams Alkamil’s works invite readers into a reflective journey through language and creativity, often exploring the emotional resonance of words and the power they hold. With a poetic sensibility, Alkamil crafts narratives that blur the lines between prose and verse, offering a unique voice in contemporary Arts \u0026amp; Culture literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFans of expressive and thoughtful writing will appreciate Alkamil’s ability to evoke deep feeling and insight, making each book a meditative experience on the nature of expression and identity. These works encourage an intimate engagement with language as an art form.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"i-who-have-always-felt-words-by-shams-alkamil-9781771684828","title":"I Who Have Always Felt Words","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor anyone who has ever carried the weight of inheritance, faith, and survival—and refused to be silent.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Who Have Always Felt Words\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetry collection shaped by inheritance, faith, and the radical act of thriving amid hardship. Moving through the four temperaments, Shams Alkamil crafts a lyric architecture that holds Sudanese identity, familial lineage, political violence, spirituality, and the pursuit of compassion in delicate tension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems braid etymology with embodiment, tracing how language is inherited, questioned, and transformed. Alkamil interrogates what it means to belong—to a homeland fractured by violence, to a lineage marked by survival, to a spiritual tradition that both anchors and unsettles. Across the collection, voice becomes both offering and resistance: a means of devotion, protest, and continuity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in Black diasporic consciousness and spiritual inquiry, \u003cem\u003eI Who Have Always Felt Words\u003c\/em\u003e insists on the necessity of speech even when silence is demanded. This is a book that listens deeply—to ancestors, to faith, to grief—and answers with clarity, grace, and unflinching honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67633519689964,"sku":"9781771684828","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781771684828-i-who-have-always-felt-words-1.jpg?v=1791163769"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/shams-alkamil.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}