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Beauty is in Slender Things is a volume of poems in five movements written by Duve Nakolisa, the highly-engaging poet noted for his lyricism, apposite imagery and profundity of thought. Nakolisa’s poems, with melodious depth, explore the disintegrative aspects of the human condition.

     Duve Nakolisa’s style has been praised by notable poets and literary scholars. According to Satya Dev Jaggi, the Indian English poet, Nakolisa’s poems “have the complexity of rich musical tunes as parts of a poetical musical utterance…an organized pattern of sounds echoing the impulsions of meaning”.

     Reviewing Beauty is in Slender Things in The Guardian, Ben Tomoloju asserts: “There is, in Duve Nakolisa’s work, a joyous use of language, a celebration of beauty, matched effectively by profundity of thought. The prosodic, lyrical progression of the five movements bears this out... Duve’s anagramatic phraseology is also captivating. Such lines as ‘Does it symbolise the head of state/ Or the state of his head?’ cannot but excite. This is what one means by his joyous use of language. Combined with effective alliteration, assonances and emphatic repetitions, it makes good music to the ear, titillates the soul and conveys loads and loads of sense. Beauty is in Slender Things is a collection you want to read again and again.”