What to read after Lyrical Textiles?

In this collection of 50 poems, Gabriel Awuah Mainoo weaves verses that are exploratory, both in scope and design. Possessing in each poem are the yearnings of youth and of humanity - for love, for belonging, for the future. The question of belonging and the search for love and truth is broached from the perspective of a human being, an African, a man, a black man, and ultimately, as in "Questions that matter," from the perspective of one who seeks to know what really are the most basic life hacks (from the foreword by Dr. Martin Egblewogbe).

This volume of poetry is rich in language, structure and content. Many of the poems in this collection justify Wordsworth’s definition of poetry... 'spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility.' The blend of the supernatural world seamlessly with the human reality is seen in this work. It touches on almost every aspect of human endeavors with the sole purpose of addressing the problems of our society. Depth is what these poems carry in expressing the human feeling in a surreal manner.

-Waterz Yidana, Ghana, Award winning Author

Lyrical Textiles, eclectic as it is dense. No subject is left unattended to: from the blinkered vision(s) of our political leaders to refugees, heartaches, religion, tennis, grief etc. Mainoo is playful as he is contemplative; his poetry is thickly laced with dense imagery under a thinly laid veil of irony and humour, sometimes dark. Unwrapping layer after layer of sheer poetical brilliance that leaves the reader with a certain buzz of both awe & intrigue. 

-Nyashadzashe Chikumbu, Zimbabwe, Mystery publishers