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Globetrotters and Hitler's Children

by (author) Amatoritsero Ede

Publisher
Griots Lounge Publishing Canada
Initial publish date
Jan 2025
Category
General, African
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781738334001
    Publish Date
    Jan 2025
    List Price
    $21.99

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A book of two sequences, melded beautifully and seamlessly, both of which are the shape of the poet's consciousness and body in relation to space and place. Globetrotter is an immigrant's paean to the city of Toronto, while Hitler's Children is a poet's struggle with race, otherness and Germany in the spirit of witness, passion, humour, melancholy and understanding.

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Contributor Notes

Amatoritsero Ede is an international award-winning poet born in Nigeria. He has published three highly acclaimed poetry collections, A writers Pains & Caribbean Blues (1998), Globetrotter & Hitler's Children (2009) and Teardrops on the Weser (2021). The first collection won the 1998 All Africa Okigbo Prize for Literature and the second was nominated for the Nigerian Literature Prize in 2013. A widely anthologized poet, Ede also won second prize in the First May Ayim Award: International Black German Prize in 2004. He is literary scholar and Assistant Professor of English at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick as well as the Publisher and Managing Editor of the Maple Tree Literary Supplement.

Editorial Reviews

A startling new voice in Canadian letters. -Olive Senior, author of Shell

Ede has the warmth of William Carlos Williams and the analytical power of Malcolm X. -George Elliott Clarke, author of George & Rue

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