In this witty but serious collection, the poet looks askance at
injustices and pains of the present and recent past. In the title
poem and others, he asks, 'how the hell/Chicken generals figured
they could run a nation/From the DIY book of trash'. Other targets
includes generals or executors, and the apolitical - pacifists and
the apathetic, and the hypocrisy of the wealthy 'who bake the
crumbs/to feed continents of beggars/that hide behind cliched
histories'. Protest poetry at least offers some hope - a voice. The
poet urges, 'rise poets, write/fight and bite/and die for price/set
kites to flight/and fife for life/rise poets rise'. Omoniyi is a
senior lecturer in English and Modern Language at the University of
Surrey, in the UK. Many of these poems have previously appeared in
journals in Africa, Asia, Europe and the US.
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