DESCRIPTION
Format: eBook, 64 pages (PDF)
ISBN: 979-854-122-364-4
Publisher: Poets in Nigeria (August 9, 2021)
COVID RIFTS is a portrait of a young man who pushes through the crowded streets of the dying and the dead. It paints a poetic ballad of trauma, pain, abandonment, and alienation, as a result of the prowling effect of COVID-19 on the psyche of the world, leading to neglect and death.
COVID RIFTS is a biographical memorial for a sojourned brother at the failure of a certain god and the healthcare system to keep him alive. Through these memories, the poet persona composes a narrative of abandonment by a certain Christian fold whose claim is the earth and through these flickers, he satirizes society.
COVID RIFTS marks the poet’s ability to tackle religion, politics, lifestyle and medicine simultaneously and how they all contributed to the fate of a seemingly sad society suffering from the scourge of COVID-19.
Herein, one individual’s outlook of so many issues becomes a representation of the so many things we all suffer within a span of one year.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Onyekachi Peter Onuoha is an alumnus of University of Calabar and University of Lagos respectively. He teaches African Digital Literature and Creative writing at the Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Calabar. He is a Street Biographer and a recipient of Volkswagen Foundation Scholarship on Digital Humanities, 2018. He has also won awards of “Special Recognition” by Street Priests for his literary contributions on street children in his book Earth Corners, 2020. He has contributed book chapters and scholarly articles to national and international journals. He is widely published with the following titles: Idara, Moonlight Lady (Kraftbooks, 2012), My Father Lied, The Scream of Ola (Kraftbooks, 2013), Ijeuwa (Authorhouse UK, 2015), Identity, The Fears of Mama (Kraftbooks 2015) The Heresy of Gossip, Aluta Struggles (Celbestbooks, 2011), Smell (AMABooks, 2017) Earth Corners (Kraftbooks 2019) African Digital Prose (EbonyBooks 2020), Practical Approaches to Creative Writing (Celbestbooks, 2020), Women in Continue Punning Men-boys (Celbestbooks 2021), amongst others.
Congratulations Kachi! It couldn’t have been more timely! Greater strides ahead!
Onyekachi, thanks for this too.”Impact ” will back this up. Awaiting “80 Cents of Returned Onion Sales” Ever-flowing ink !
Congratulations Onyekachi. Apt!!! Waiting
for *80 cents of returned onion sales*. May your ink continue to pull force.