A Prisoner with Keys

What do you do when the door is open, the key is in your hand, and you stay anyway?
A Prisoner with Keys is a collection of 38 poems about the highs and withdrawals of love: the first rush of devotion, the slow poison of betrayal, and the long, cold quiet that follows. Tatenda Ncube writes of soul-mates and Jezebels, caged birds and dried-up oases, and hearts that choose their own chains. He writes of the men who cannot cry, the lovers who cannot leave, and the ones who leave too late.
Raw, lyrical and unafraid of the dark, these poems move between longing and regret, obsession and release. They explore love as both a gift and an addiction, and freedom as something that can be harder to accept than captivity.
For readers of contemporary love poetry, this is a book about the people we love, the people we lose, and the part of ourselves we find when we finally walk out.