Feathers in reverse / Tikum Mbah Azonga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azonga, Tikum Mbah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Feathers in Reverse is the ideal gift for a loved one who is scared of poetry. It engages and immerses readers with the luring subtlety of a serpent. Themes treated include good and evil, heaven and earth, man and woman, birth and death, urbanism and rural life, wealth and poverty. As much as the poet highlights salient issues and conflicts in everyday life, he suggests answers to burning problems as well. A common thread runs through the over 300 poems feathered and featured in this collection. The notion of the 'feather' is cross-cultural. It reminds us of the feather used as a pen in ancient Europe and the 'red feather' that is stuck on the caps of African notables as a mark of distinction. Feathers in Reverse is a magic pudding to be sampled, shared and indulged.

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; 1. Crisis Meeting; 2. Those Who Dare To Preach To Us; 3. The Silence from Rome; 4. What Colours Mean To Me; 5. God's Changing Weather(For Bernadette); 6. Too Big For Charing Cross; 7. Inches Too Shallow(For the victim`s of Schindler`s list); 8. The Wrong Drink; 9. Lone Battle for Christ; 10. A Prayer for Victory(For Lydienne Blanche); 11. A Certain Point in Time(For Linda); 12. My Newest Creation(For Mayayong); 13. The Taunted Lion(For Agbor Ambang); 14. My Quest for Leadership(For Kelly); 15. Is Man By Nature Good?(For Ngong Bertrand)

16. In The Footsteps Of The Almighty(For Ronard)17. A Field Day For The Vice President.For Akye Nchang; 18. Worms That Snatched Me from Bridget; 19. A Post Card for Cynthia; 20. Alone With a Cobweb In Zambia; 21. The Bed Wetter; 22. The Door the Moderator Snubbed; 23. Where Has My Love Gone?(For Welle); 24. A Ride with God(For Jacqueline); 25. The Girl with a Heart of Gold(For Laurantine); 26. The Chances I Take(For Minnette); 27. In Quest Of New Rungs(For Musi Jane Nanhyigha); 28. Eel on the Heels; 29. The Ugly Bee; 30. The Bunch We Are; 31. Whichever Way; 32. The Unfortunate Jug

33. The Lone Apron34. God`S Chosen One; 35. My One and Only Orchard Tree(For Sarah); 36. A Virgin Gift for the Sultan of Foumban; 37. The Kiss He Planted On Her; 38. The Missing Cheque Book; 39. Bodies That Shame Humanity(For Funge Diffang); 40. The Mine-Infested Road; 41. The Girl From Sierra Leone(For Ola During); 42. Hold Your Horses; 43. Awkward One, This; 44. Fee for Zoo Animals; 45. So Much Waste Land; 46. The Skewed Results; 47. God`S Only Olive Branch(For Olive); 48. Seven Unmarked Posts; 49. The Emir`S Rain; 50. Art in All Its Forms; 51. My Girl in the Well(For my Facebook friends)

52. A Bottle Full Of White Jelly(For the one and only departmental queen)53. Alone With the Priest; 54. The Other Whiff of Grapeshot; 55. Here Comes the Master; 56. Thou Art Lord; 57. My Lost Love; 58. Standing Betrayed; 59. Trips Without Tips(For Gaelle); 60. Grandma`S Empty Calabashes; 61. Faced With a Weakened People(For sons and daughters of the Baforchu-Mbu clan); 62. Jelly with no Viscuosity; 63. The Mad Moment; 64. Barefooted For the Pope; 65. Memories of Lusaka; 66. Why Should She Do It?; 67. The Other Tea Party; 68. Paying For Incidentals; 69. Compass Reading(For Nasare)

70. One More for the Risen Christ71. A Cheer for Pisces and Taurus(For Caroline); 72. A Dinghy for Ndingi(For Elangwe Ndingi); 73. What Being a Delegate Means(For Saahkem Nancy Ephe); 74. Shows with No Starting Time(For Ma Stella of Buea); 75. Trousers That Won't Fit(For Missline); 76. Daddy's One and only Daughter(For Marion); 77. Daughter of the Lord(For Emelda); 78. God from another Angle(For Emeli); 79. Those Of Comfort(For Comfort herself); 80. What the Virgin Mother Wants(For Susan); 81. A Problem and a Half; 82. Sprouts No One Wants; 83.Jokers From East London; 84. Bullets in Lipstick

85. Sentence Before Trial

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 22, 2014).

ISBN:

9789956791477

9956791474

OCLC:

883820209