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Song of a Riverbird
 Publisher:
Ovalonion House
Author: Lola Shoneyin
ISBN: 978-36581-0-7
What the blurb says:
Song of a Riverbird
confirms the potential and talent displayed in Lola
Shoneyin's first collection of poems - So All the Time I Was
Sitting on an Egg.
This new collection
encapsulates some of the best characteristics of
postcolonial African poetry. The poems focus on the little
stories of daily life, the pains and disappointments the
samll joys and excitement that give colour and texture to
ordinary life. These poems display feminine sensibility that
is tied to tough, terse wit, and an assured confidence that
both arrests and enchants the reader.
With these poems,
Shoneyin moves into a new territory of poetic exploration
and defines the idiom for that exploration. The controlled
lyricism, of these poems and the issues they explore are
bound to remain with us long after we have closed the pages
of the book.
RRP £10.95.
Eastern Light Price £7.99
+ 95p (P&P)
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