Overview

This collection explores uncertainty as a form of belief. Moving between intimate domestic spaces and broader social, ecological, and ethical questions, the poems ask how we live when answers are provisional and survival itself feels conditional. The work engages themes of climate anxiety, inherited responsibility, faith without certainty, family memory, and the quiet negotiations of care. Rather than offering resolution, ""The Names We Carry"" lingers in questioning, treating doubt as a site of attention, tenderness, and moral reckoning. These poems often draw on ordinary rituals, kitchens, tables, bodies at rest or in tension while reframing them through spiritual and philosophical inquiry. The collection blends lyric clarity with reflective intensity, aiming to hold both the personal and the collective without collapsing one into the other.

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""The Names We Carry"" is an amazing first book of poetry by an emerging poet. The level of innate understanding of the human soul as it inflects and reflects through the everlasting spirit is extraordinary indeed. I do believe this is one of the best books of poetry by a solitary author I have ever had the privilege of reading and hence I express my utmost respect for the masterful intelligence evidenced on every page. Candice James, Poet Laureate Emerita, City of New Westminster, BC CANADA and author of ""Behind the One Way Mirror"" and ""The Still Small Voice of Soul""

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Khayelihle Benghu is an emerging author based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work has appeared in Decolonial Passage, Aliko, Person of Interest, Surbabian Witchcraft, Maphrathesis, Ake Review, and is forthcoming in Fullhouse Journal. She is a part-time nurse and translator and has previously participated in the Mooshort Poetry Session and the 3rd Person Poetry Workshop.

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