Africa-Press – Eswatini. What if someone gave you the words you didn’t know you needed, right when you needed them most? That is the essence of While You Can Smell Them, the latest poetry collection by Eswatini author Bandile Matsenjwa.
Quietly released on 29 January 2025, the book offers readers a deeply personal and emotionally rich experience, described as a bouquet of thoughts handed over while there is still time to feel their warmth.
The book departs from traditional poetry formats, embracing prose poetry rooted in emotion and reflection. It explores themes such as love, healing, gratitude, and the human condition. Each piece carries a gentle urgency, encouraging readers to appreciate life, relationships, and even pain before they become distant memories. “I want to give you flowers while you can smell them,” Matsenjwa said, a line that forms both the title and underlying message of the book.
Matsenjwa began his writing career in 2014 after completing high school, publishing his first book with a UK-based publisher in December of that year. Since then, he has authored five books and ghostwritten one non-fiction title. He is also the founder of “Pen That Cold Addiction,” a writers’ wing under Cold Addiction, a creative label he co-runs with music producer Dumisani “DeeFlava” Dlamini of AAMS.
While You Can Smell Them continues a poetic series that includes I Wrote This For You, I Left You Flowers, and The Flower Will Bloom. This new installment is considered his most introspective work to date, featuring poetic reflections that resemble confessions, letters, and emotional snapshots.
Though the official launch is set for August, the book is already available for early access at www.bandilematsenjwa.bigcartel.com or via direct order at +26879348343. Matsenjwa hopes to place copies in cafés, eateries, and school libraries, believing its message can quietly meet people where they are, whether lost, inspired, or simply in need of a reminder that they matter.
In the end, what makes this book memorable is its quiet honesty. It offers not perfection, but presence words that feel like someone showing up when it matters most. “Even a book,” Matsenjwa says, “can be that someone. So get these flowers While You Can Smell Them.”
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