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Photographer Helps Build Waterhole to Capture Incredible Photos of African Wildlife Using Camera Traps - Kenya’s Shompole Wilderness Camp

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Photographer: Will Burrard-Lucas

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Home as savagery, as heart in lover’s mouth, as ritual sacrifice, as tradition, as tenderness.

N. L. Shompole - 'Home,' published in Kingdoms in the Wild

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I believed you when you said you were looking something deeper I believed you when you used bones to carve out craters in my heart I believed you when you collected my blood in buckets labeled storm water I believed you when you threw it out for dogs.

— N. L. Shompole, from “.danger of idols,” Anatomy of Surrender: Twelve Names for December, Select Poems

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Because, because the truth is no one can save you but you, because the truth is we either survive the catastrophe or we drown.

N.L. Shompole, Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls (The Historian)

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[Dis]Connected presents poems and short stories about connection wrapped up in a most unique exercise in creative writing. Follow along as your favorite poets connect with each other; offering their poetry to the next person who tells a story based on the concept presented to them. With poetry, stories, and art, this is a one-of-a-kind presentation of connection and collaboration by Alicia Cook, Tyler Knott Gregson, Courtney Peppernell, Noah Milligan, Komal Kapoor, N.L. Shompole, Caitlyn Siehl, K.Y. Robinson, Raquel Franco, and Wilder Poetry

I received this ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

One afternoon at school, I played a game with my friends: one person would write a poem and the next person had to add to it. It was fun to see our different styles and interpretations. This anthology is somewhat similar.  In [Dis]connected, each of the ten authors write a poem and another author writes a story based on it.

I liked this collection, though I think the latter half of the short stories was superior.

“Wrapped in Distance” by Komal Kapoor is the crown jewel of this anthology. The protagonist is relatable and dynamic.

I like the writing style of the majority of the poems and prose. Most of the protagonists are interesting.  There’s a variety of genres here, from fantasy to magical realism to romance. Since part of the fun of anthology is not knowing what comes next, I won’t discuss the plot of any story in particular. But some of the themes include grief, gender roles, and disillusionment.  

A few stories resemble first chapters of books. These feel incomplete because there’s no resolution or growth at the end. Interesting concepts and characters are squandered.

The weakest story of the collection is “What the Wild Gave Me” by Wilder.  None of the characters are interesting. Despite the short length, this story dragged because of slow pacing and pointless scenes. The protagonist’s realization at the end of the story comes out of the blue, because her motivations are vague.

As a content warning, the story “Make Choices a Bit Crooked” by Noah Milligan contains a lengthy, detailed description of a medical procedure gone wrong.

Despite a few weaker offerings, the rest of the stories are of a high caliber. I recommend this anthology.

Rating: Four Stars

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Review: Disconnected by Courtney Peppernell; Tyler Knott Gregson; Noah Milligan; Caitlyn Siehl; Raquel Franco; Wilder; Alicia Cook; Komal Kapoor; KY Robinson; NL Shompole.

This highly-anticipated second volume of poetry and short stories combines the forces of some of the most popular poets of 2019.

I love this series of books. How one writer can create an idea, and then another to come along read that idea and make something new from it makes for somerthing great and this book is certainly proof, straight from the beginning of the book. ‘Strangers Tomorrow’ by NL Shompole, will break your heart. Inspired by the work of Gregson before her in this book this story takes science fiction into how to deal with grief exquisitely and makes for a marvel in this book. 

In combination with these stories, we have poems that connect the stories, taking lines from the poem to create the story. Poems by Noah Milligan like ‘Ghost Stories’ in this book are harrowing but important and make for perfect stops in between these stories. Jumping from ‘Ghost Stories’ we have ‘Ghosted’ which is the most honest and raw and tragic love story that just ends so well and I love it for it and thougn the two are so very different the way they use words to connect the two is done so well.

A book I asked for due to my love of the work of Tyler Knott Gregson, this book has opened my eyes to a whole new range of talented poets who I need to go and look up as soon as possible. If you love poems and like having your heartbroken in a literary sense, this is the book for you. Even the recommendations at the end of the book - Jade Homa’s ‘Athena’ at the back is a little treasure that ends this book beautifully. 

(I received an ARC from Netgalley for review, thanks Netgalley, you did good!). 

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HOME by: N.L. Shompole

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Anyway, I highly, highly recommend everyone read Lace Bone Beast by N.L. Shompole. It’s a really short poetry collection and oh my god its so amazing. I haven't seen anyone talk about it at all on tumblr and they should.

‘Milk and Honey’, and ‘the princess saves herself in this one’ get most of the attention she it comes to poetry, but this collection really is wonderful and more people need to read it. NOW!

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Photographer Helps Build Waterhole to Capture Incredible Photos of African Wildlife Using Camera Traps - Kenya’s Shompole Wilderness Camp

Baboons

Photographer: Will Burrard-Lucas

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Hey, I just saw that Good Omens edit with the quote 'decades between us have not softened the longing' and I was wondering where it was from? I googled it but nothing came up and I'd love to know where it's from

It's from Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls by N.L. Shompole.

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Home as savagery, as heart in lover’s mouth, as ritual sacrifice, as tradition, as tenderness.

N. L. Shompole, from “Home,” published in Kingdoms in the Wild

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Don't you see how weathered I am, how tired I am of begging?

N.L. Shompole, Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls (Salt & Shadows) 

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The Surge of the Inyoni Lodgein South Africa.

Inyoni Lodgein South Africa are a brand-new campaign that is focused on aiding regional populaces gain from the tourism that South Africa attracts. The regional tribes primarily the Masai and the Samburu substantially benefit from these Inyoni Lodgeas it offers them numerous employment possibility which serve as a supplement for the income that these regional people earn via farming tasks.

South Africa is renowned for wildlife tourism as well as these Inyoni Lodgewhich are positioned close to the wild animals parks and also the neighborhood tribes people is one of the very best methods to explore South Africa. Despite of the reality that these Inyoni Conference venue western Cape Overberg valued a bit more than the traditional hotels, it is still worth the additional expense.

The Inyoni Lodgeemploy the local tribesmen in serving the vacationers as well as this is a remarkable method to experience the friendliness of individuals of South Africa. You can also rejoice that the money you are paying will not be going to some rich entrepreneur yet it will certainly be used by these poor citizens for the education and learning of their kids and their everyday needs such as tidy alcohol consumption water and various other health and wellness benefits.

One such lodge in South Africa is the Illi Ngwesi lodge in Laikipia, the northern frontier area of South Africa. These lodges are built by the residents out of natural products with 6 bandas that are stuck on the ground. The lodges have double beds which can additionally be expanded outside the lodge for a sight of the stellar South African sky. This lodge has actually been elected finest campaign by British Airways which has provided the lodges a large boost. The lodges are built and looked after by neighborhood tribes people and also the whole profits that originates from these lodges is shared by the town of over 500 households.

Tassia lodge is an additional of these South African Inyoni lodges. This lodges depends on the Mocodo escarpment as well as neglects the town of the residents that handle it. The lodge is reserved well ahead of time and is full a lot of the moment so its advisable to make your bookings at least 3 months beforehand.

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The Shompole lodge, along the river Magadi in South Africa is touted to be the very best of these Inyoni lodges, but it's difficult to come to a final thought as to which one is the most effective as a result of the fact that there are many lodges that maintain springing up all over South Africa and unless you have actually experienced each of them it would be wrong to court. Sabuk lodge in South Africa remains on a high cliff below which runs a river that's a hotspot for South African wild animals like elephants and various other pets during the morning when they involve satiate their thirst.