New-generation African poets. Kumi : a chapbook box set / edited by Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

African Poetry Book Fund, sponsoring body.

Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962- editor.

Abani, Chris, editor.

Series:

African poetry book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African poetry (English)--21st century.

African poetry (English).

Africans--Poetry.

Africans.

Africa--Poetry.

Africa.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

10 volumes ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

New-generation African poets. 10

Kumi : new-generation African poets

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2024]

Summary:

"The limited-edition box set is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets who have not yet published their first full-length book of poetry. The nine poets included in this box set are: Nurain Ọládèjì, Sarpong Osei Asamoah, Claudia Owusu, Nome Emeka Patrick, Qhali, Connor Cogill, Feranmi Ariyo, Dare Tunmise, and Adams Adeosun."-- From publisher's website.

Contents:

[v.1] Introduction

[v.2] Home is a heart that flees / Nurain Ọládèjì

[v.3] Yaanom / Sarpong Osei Asamoah

[v.4] In these bones, I am shifting / Claudia Owusu

[v.5] Voyaging / Nome Emeka Patrick

[v.6] Crying in my mother's tongue : Ukulila / Qhali

[v.7] Light through water / Connor Cogill

[v.8] I watch you disappear / Feranmi Ariyo

[v.9] A failed attempt at undoing memories / Dare Tunmise

[v.10] If the golden hour won't come for us / Adams Adeosun.

Notes:

Issued in slipcase (24 x 16 cm). Title from slipcase.

Tenth chapbook box set in the New-generation African poets series ("kumi" is ten in Swahili).

Published in collaboration with the African Poetry Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781636141886

1636141889

OCLC:

1464688971

Publisher Number:

90101291404