This article interrogates the interaction of the rural and the urban in Uganda’s poetry anthologies by analysing what poets construct as discursive interface between the two spaces. I argue that the rural and the urban, even when they
are discrete spaces, represent each other in an asymmetrical relationship. Thus, the rural and the urban are in constant, transient and dynamic contact which contact at times seems paradoxical. The article uses textual analysis to enable a scrutiny and discussion of associations and disconnections by focusing on five selected poems. I anchor the reading of the poems on the theory of planetary urbanism and deploy Amin and Thrift’s (2002) concept of transitivity to examine the rural and the urban as spaces of intermingling because of their porous boundaries. Using this theoretical lens, I interrogate the interaction between the two spaces with a focus on Amin and Thrift’s claim of the openness of urbanity. The article concludes that although the urban and the rural, as represented in the selected poems, can be read as distinct spaces, they converge in everyday life and experience from historical, cultural, social, and kinship perspectives. Both the rural and the urban are depicted as sources of knowledge, which sources are replicated in either space in ever-shifting and ever-changing ways.