Random Prose

Izzat Majeed's new collection of poetry, deceptively called Random Prose, is a heartfelt attempt to mediate that space between creative and professional. Majeed, not a poet by trade, attempts, in his beautifully-constructed rhymes and biting commentary, tries to make sense of 'the smugness of affluence, and the 'camouflaged mediocrity' of our world.

He chooses his words carefully, opting for the parallels of triumph and defeat to move the poems forward. He occupies a dreamy space, seeing 'all the illusions in the sea of possibility' before dispelling them with rainbow colours and words stuck to lips. The whispers build into a cornucopia of colour-filled language and love-lorn prose, broken into metre, filled with hope, optimism and in places, a world-weary eye for mundane, transformed into a triumphant turn of phrase.

Random Prose is a beautifully collected series of poems that give a sense of journey and asks as many questions as it seeks to answer ending with a realisation of 'the only eternity that matters.'