{"id":15704,"date":"2021-11-05T00:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T04:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=15704"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:14","slug":"displace-the-poetry-of-nduka-otiono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2021\/displace-the-poetry-of-nduka-otiono\/","title":{"rendered":"DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono (Laurier Poetry) Paperback \u2013 October 19, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono (Laurier Poetry) Paperback \u2013 October 19, 2021\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/African-Studies-Thumbnail-4-e1636086217308-400x399.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15705\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono<\/em>&nbsp;engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions and places African intellectual history at the forefront of an engagement with Western poetics.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono&#8217;s two published collections,&nbsp;<em>Voices in the Rainbow,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Love in a Time of Nightmares<\/em>, and the volume includes previously unpublished new poems. Peter Midgley\u2019s introduction contextualizes Otiono\u2019s work within the frame of physical and spiritual mobility, diaspora, and newer critical frames like Afropolitanism, attending to form as well as his political engagement. The volume concludes with an interview of the poet by Chris Dunton that touches on the nature of poetry, language loss, and diasporic identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To purchase this book click on this link:<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aw\/d\/1771125381\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1636039812&amp;sr=1-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aw\/d\/1771125381\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1636039812&amp;sr=1-6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono&nbsp;engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions and places African intellectual history at the forefront of an engagement with Western poetics. The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono&#8217;s two published collections,&nbsp;Voices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.carleton.ca\/truth\/images\/1919\/article-print.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15732,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704\/revisions\/15732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}