Book Launch of “DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono”

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The University of Alberta Department of English and Film Studies is honoured to launch the new book of Carleton University Professor Nduka Otiono: “DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono”.

The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono’s two published collections, Voices in the Rainbow, and Love in a Time of Nightmares, and the volume includes previously unpublished new poems. Peter Midgley’s introduction contextualizes Otiono’s 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.

DisPlace is a book that straddles multiple poetic traditions and places African intellectual history at the forefront of an engagement with Western poetics. Otiono in this book engages actively with a diasporic world and is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada.

Nduka is an Associate Professor of African Studies and English at Carleton University and a graduate of the doctoral program in English at the University of Alberta.

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