“The poems in this collection blaze with passion and a flaring lyricism alive to the elegance of a language that leaves the reader breathless. Their melodies comfort and haunt at the same time, as we share in the many pleasures that pierce the poet's heart.”
— James Yeku. Author, Where the Baedeker Leads
“This remarkable collection brims with the light of love and hope. The poet's use of diction is commendable, and her profound exploration of love as a theme introduces us to the pristine appraisal of love and the holiness it carries. Deploying indigenous names to execute the task of performing love, the poet transports us to the longing and promises that love birds experience as they voyage across the road of love. It's irrefutable that the readers will relish this poetic delicacy prepared by this poet whose brilliance reflects throughout this”
— Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, Author, No Home in This Land
“Crownway's poetry reminds us of the power of solitude and how it can lead to an inward and outward awakening. With her string of meditative poems on the ordinary and its proclivity to create profundity, this young poet's attentiveness to the world enriches us.”
— Jumoke Verissimo, Author, I Am Memory and The Birth of Illusion
“The poems contained in the Secrets in Solitude come from such personal unconscious; the deep place of strong feelings, rhyming dialogic echoes, also monologic contrivance, that incarnation of presence in absence. Here, the heart distils the imagination taking flights between love and pain. There's the pathetic mooring of deep love by solitude, as Asake turns to speak of pain, catalysed in the foreboding lyrics of a loved partner, drifting apart but now returning to Asake, in solo echoes…”
—Ndubuisi Martins, Author, One Call, Many Answers and Answers through the Bramble