Report: Echezonachukwu Nduka's Second Poetry Collection Out In September
Nigerian poet and classical pianist, Echezonachukwu Nduka's second full length poetry collection, titled WATERMAN has been scheduled for publication in September, 2020 by Griots Lounge.
This was officially announced by the publishers, Griots Lounge in a press release on Wednesday, the 1st of July, 2020.
According to the press release, "The book which will be first published in Canada, by Griots Lounge Publishing Canada, will be available September in all major bookstores online. Paperbacks will also be available in our (Griots Lounge) partner bookstores in Europe, North America and Africa."
“Waterman affirms Echezonachukwu Nduka’s stature as an experienced poet. The poems are carefully crafted, highly descriptive, and flow rhythmically. Throughout the collection, the poet’s experiences of navigating through the urban society come alive through images of music, water, and Catholicism. There are keen observations, witty and memorable images, and beautiful philosophical statements that make the poetry reading experience exhilarating. Nduka’s Waterman is versatile and uplifting.”
— Tanure Ojaide, Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte writes in one of the blurbs.
Echezonachukwu Nduka is the author of Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts (Griots Lounge, 2018)— an acclaimed collection of thematically linked poems in seven sections that explores the intersections of death, love, music, wine, and the otherworldly.
Nduka holds degrees in Music from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Kingston University London, UK.
In 2016, he was awarded the Korea-Nigeria Poetry Prize on World Poetry Day. Hailed by the Guardian Life Magazine as ‘Artist Extraordinaire’, his works have been published in The Indianapolis Review, Transition, River River, Bombay Review, The Village Square Journal, Bakwa Magazine, Saraba, Jalada Language Anthology, 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Vol. II, A Thousand Voices Rising: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry, among others.
Further information about WATERMAN, will be released subsequently by Griots Lounge.
Congrats Echezonachukwu Nduka!
