Publisher: HEBN Publishers, Nigeria
Stone Child and Other Poems
Stone Child is about the nameless gemstone child that became a great in the recent history of Sierra Leone, the poet’s country. With compassion and moral deliberation, the poems in the first section of this new collection resound with the pain and love that the poet felt as he reflected on the tumultuous politics and tragic destiny of his beautiful land. Other poems are in homage to people and places around the world that have deeply touched the poet.
£25.00
About the author
Syl Cheney-Coker is one of Sierra Leone’s most renowned poets; his poetry emerges from the Creole culture of his country. Educated at the Universities of Oregon and Wisconsin, and a former visiting writer at the International Writing Program and the University of Iowa, he published one novel to great acclaim and which won best book in the Africa region of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize: The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar.”