One of CBC Books's Best Canadian Poetry Books of 2025 "Through Verissimo, her lyrics hold together precisely because of the way she pulls them apart, focusing on individual moments, elements and parts of speech, collecting together to form a far wider and complex tapestry." - rob mclennan's blog " Circumtrauma works the threshold of language as it rears up against the crude arithmetic of war and the regimes of ruin that saturate memory, history, and the body. Verissimo's gift is the making of another atlas for becoming where past, present, and future are clarified in the ties that bind us despite such fissures. Richly observed and felt." - Canisia Lubrin, author of Code Noir "Not just a book of poems, but a beautiful and devastating monument to Nigerian history. Verissimo harnesses the power of repetition and reimagination to capture a past that lives on in the psyche, the body, and collective memory. CIRCUMTRAUMA sings with astonishing sentences and images; it is vital, breath-taking work." - Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of The Idea of an Entire Life and Coexistence Praise for A Small Silence : "An intriguing.

intimate debut" - Leila Aboulela, author of River Spirit "A compelling and compulsive story" - Helon Habila, author of Travelers: A Novel " A Small Silence feels like an act of literary disruption. Hypnotic, expertly crafted and full of subtle power, it challenges cultural norms around silence, darkness and solitude, leaving the reader changed in ways that are hard to define." - Irenosen Okojie, The Guardian.