- Hardcover
- Published: 6/11/19
- IBSN: 9781617757174
- Genre: Poetry
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New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)
This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of ten new African poets.
What people are saying…
“A limited edition, 11-piece box set that features 10 new African poets.”
—New York Times Book Review, “Globetrotting,” April 2019
“Akashic’s annual project to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today enters its fourth year with this limited edition box set that includes works by 10 poets.”
—Publishers Weekly, Spring 2018 Announcements/Poetry
Included in African Book Addict‘s 2019 Anticipated Releases
Praise for the chapbook box set series:
“Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by contemporary poets from Africa, packaged together in beautiful boxed sets.”
—New York Times Magazine
“An ambitious, vital project that delivers exactly what it promises . . . As a group, the chapbooks dispel stereotypes about African writing. They also illustrate what editors Dawes and Abani note about the many ways poets can understand or redefine their ties to Africa. These insights are poignant and valuable, especially at a time when millions around the globe find themselves somewhere between new countries and ancestral lands they’ve left behind.”
—Washington Post
“A collection pulsing with fresh talent in a series that poetry lovers worldwide should be grateful for.”
—Shelf Awareness
Description
The limited-edition box set is an annual project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks 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 ten poets included in this box set are: Hiwot Adilow, Dalia Elhassan, Charity Hutete, Nour Kamel, Daisy Odey, Salawu Olajide, Musawenkosi Khanyile, Dina El Dessouky, Ama Asantewa Diaka, and ‘Gbenga Adeoba.
Read a feature and excerpts from New-Generation African Poets (Sita) at Poetry Society of America.
- Subjects: Black Interest, Featured Black Interest Titles, Limited Edition/Collectibles, Poetry
- Tags: African Poetry Book Fund, Ama Diaka, Charity Hutete, Chris Abani, Daisy Odey, Dalia Elhassan, Dina El Dessouky, Eight New-Generation African Poets, Gbenga Adeoba, Hiwot Adilow, Kwame Dawes, Musawenkosi Khanyile, New-Generation African Poets, New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne), New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano), New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tatu), Nour Kamel, Salawu Olajide
Book Details
Authors
KWAME DAWES’s debut novel She’s Gone (Akashic) was the winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Debut Fiction). He is the author of twenty-one books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. In 2016, his book Speak from Here to There, a cowritten collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella, was released along with When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life, which Dawes edited. His most recent collection, City of Bones: A Testament, was published in 2017. His awards include the Forward Poetry Prize, the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, the Musgrave Silver Medal, several Pushcart Prizes, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and an Emmy Award. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and is Chancellor Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. Dawes serves as the associate poetry editor for Peepal Tree Press and is director of the African Poetry Book Fund. He is series editor of the African Poetry Book Series—the latest of which is Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set—and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. Dawes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2018 was elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Bivouac is his latest work published by Akashic.
CHRIS ABANI, a Nigerian-born, award-winning poet and novelist, currently teaches at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is the recipient of a PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond Margins Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, and a Guggenheim Award. He is the editor of Lagos Noir and the coeditor of Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set.