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    When No One Is Watching
    When No One Is Watching
    When No One Is Watching
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    When No One Is Watching

    By Linathi Makanda

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    When No One Is Watching is a compilation of poems about love and the loss thereof, trauma and the dark reflections that come with it. It is a depiction of sides that people don’t readily show, sides of vulnerability, insecurity and tiny amounts of hope. One could say it is the result of shedding light into a world of secrecy, escapism, an alternate reality belonging to an alternate version of an individual. When No One Is Watching is the truth in its purest form.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOdyssey Books
    Release dateJan 28, 2020
    ISBN9781922311108
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    • 5/5
      Beautiful book, such poignant poems!
      Really enjoyed every bit of it!
    • 4/5
      I liked that it was short but meaningful in the end
    • 5/5
      This book touches on wounds that have been scabbed, not in a painful way, but in a healing manner. It's confrontational but comforting at the same time. Kudos to the author who make us women feel seen. I hope all the readers feel seen, too.
    • 3/5
      The book was a great inspiration ;i just loved how the simple words weaved into each other.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful, riveting, it’ll make you cry and smile at the same time
    • 5/5
      What a very beautiful book filled with words that get to the heart. The author speaks to me so much. I really appreciate this book
    • 5/5
      beautifully written ? these words really touched me and truely reflect authenticity, transparency and vulnerability. Love it
    • 5/5
      I absolutely adore every inch of this expression. Sending so much love to you Beautiful. Thank you for sharing your love and your healing.
    • 3/5
      This was a beautiful, raw, emotional collection, but the writing was very simple and fell kind of short.
    • 5/5
      Just finished your book- I love it, towards the end I felt you writing your experiences, in a calm and logical way, felt like someone who's healed when in the beginning it felt like you were pouring out your heart and also had a bit of anger inside. I assume the book was written in different parts/stages of your life. I love the beauty of truth displayed in that.. the unfiltered emotions you expressed. I love how calm the end is... how soothing these words of affirmation are, it made me feel the emotions - like you were a counselor, like you had been through pain and understood you have to share your experiences in a manner that says "this is not about me but from my story, i want you to learn love"... When No one is watching, we ought to love ourselves. When No One is watching, we have to heal for ourselves, When No one is watching, we have no one else but ourselves!

      Thank you for sharing your Art with us.❤ It's truly beautiful
    • 5/5
      Lost and found myself in these pages, absolutely love it!
    • 5/5
      Deep, touching, personal, and heart-wrenching words that shatter your soul.
    • 5/5
      Linathi Makanda has a magical way with words! Every woman should read this book at least twice.
    • 5/5
      Devoured this book. I will return to it over and over. The poems are absolutely stunning, and take you to many different places. The author writes with a raw vulnerability and transparency that is both awe inspiring and devastating. Really quite the book.

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    When No One Is Watching - Linathi Makanda

    When No One

    Is Watching

    Linathi Makanda

    Copyright © Linathi Makanda 2020

    The moral right of the author has been asserted.

    Published by Ensorcellia,

    an imprint of Odyssey Books, in 2020

    www.odysseybooks.com.au

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted by any person or entity, including internet search engines or retailers, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying (except under the statutory exceptions provisions of the Australian Copyright Act 1968), recording, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system without the prior written permission of the publisher.

    A Cataloguing-in-Publication entry is available from the National Library of Australia

    ISBN: 978-1-922311-09-2 (pbk)

    ISBN: 978-1-922311-10-8 (ebook)

    Cover design: Michelle Lovi

    For Neza

    For Adzo

    For Khumo

    For Sese

    For Kea

    For you.

    You will find traces of yourself here

    In some pages, more than others.

    But this is your home now.

    Explore it.

    Bleed in it.

    Cry in

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