Carl Terver’s Photobook “Glory To The Sky” Follows in Footsteps of Teju Cole, Out this August | Pre-Order Ongoing
Heiress Publishing is set to release Carl Terver’s Glory to the Sky — a collection of photography essays, on August 25, 2024.
In Glory to the Sky — described as “short personal essays on photography” — Terver examines our ways of seeing, celebrates the beauty of the accidental and coincident, and discusses man’s propensity for wastefulness. This kind of writing follows the tradition of writers like Emmanuel Iduma and Teju Cole, in investigating life through photography.
Carl Terver’s first photography writing, “The Lessons of Hue Editing” was published in 2021 in Afapinen. In this new photobook — which he claims was a discovery even to him — he has expanded his vision of writing about images, further stretching his boundaries. Glory to the Sky contains 35 original photographs accompanied by micro personal essays and photography writing.
Carl Terver, who has been published in Goethe-Institut Nigeria, The Republic, OlongoAfrica, The Stockholm Review, and Afapinen, is one of Nigeria’s postmodernist writers today engaged in critical thought. He graduated with a BA in English from BSU, Makurdi. His short story “The Son of Blue Jack” was selected for the inaugural anthology of the Toyin Falola Prize, and in 2024, he was long-listed for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Pre-orders of Glory to the Sky will last till August 25. Pre-order here. Pickup locations will be available in Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, Kano, Kaduna, Jos, Port Harcourt, and Makurdi. Select “Non-Delivery” in the Shipping Region Option for pickup. If you prefer a direct delivery to you, select your location in the Shipping Region Option. For orders outside Nigeria, an Amazon link will be made available soon.
Email afapinen@gmail.com for questions about the book. Or call 09038692914.