DESCRIPTION
Format: eBook, 33 pages (PDF)
ISBN: 979-845-149-494-3
Publisher: Poets in Nigeria (August 9, 2021)
There is an unsettling in this body of work, a pushing to the edge, a climax as high as a cliff & the tensioning imagery gathered as moss in this book. The poetry of Anari has livid verses and questioning lines. This chapbook startles the readers with shattering, devastating, yet inspiring poems. It is very good.
—Adedayo Agarau
Poet, Author, New Generation Poet, APBF 2020
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fubaraibi Anari Benstowe hails from Bonny Kingdom, Rivers State Nigeria and attended the Niger Delta University in Bayelsa State. His poetry focuses on social sanity, injustice, and celebration of Africa. His works have been published in Praxis magazine, Nigeria/South-Korea Poetry anthology, Mariner ANA Bayelsa literary Magazine, Journal of the association of Faculty of Art Students, University of Ibadan 2020, and 20.35 Africa: An anthology of Contemporary African Poetry. He was a guest poet at the Ake Art and Book Festival in Abeokuta, Ogun State in 2014, a top ten finalist in the Africa-Wide BN Poetry Award based in Uganda in 2014, and a first runner-up for the Eriata Eribhabor Poetry Prize 2014. He is a recipient of the Certificate of Excellence from the Girl Child Creativity Concept of Zimbabwe in collaboration with the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (2013) and in 2018, he was listed as a role model by the African in Diaspora.