Bilie Na Nt¿ / Rise from the Ashes - Okoronkwo, Catherine
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Bilie Na Nt¿ / Rise from the Ashes by Catherine Okoronkwo is a bilingual collection of extraordinary range and emotional depth, rooted in grief, faith, protest, and cultural inheritance. Switching fluently between English, Nigerian Pidgin, and Igbo, the poems navigate personal and collective histories of mourning, displacement, resilience and renewal. Okoronkwo draws on Christian iconography, ancestral memory, and everyday experience to craft a poetics that is intimate yet unflinching, lyrical yet politically alert. The work moves between continents, languages, and registers, holding space for…mehr

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Bilie Na Nt¿ / Rise from the Ashes by Catherine Okoronkwo is a bilingual collection of extraordinary range and emotional depth, rooted in grief, faith, protest, and cultural inheritance. Switching fluently between English, Nigerian Pidgin, and Igbo, the poems navigate personal and collective histories of mourning, displacement, resilience and renewal. Okoronkwo draws on Christian iconography, ancestral memory, and everyday experience to craft a poetics that is intimate yet unflinching, lyrical yet politically alert. The work moves between continents, languages, and registers, holding space for lament as well as celebration, and affirming survival as a sacred, dynamic act.
Autorenporträt
Catherine Okoronkwo, of Nigerian heritage, grew up in the Middle East and studied in the West. She holds an MA with distinction and PhD in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University. Her writings have been anthologised: 'The Killing' and 'Uncle Blessing', Elevator Fiction (Commonword, 2016); 'The Change', Crossings Over (University of Chester, 2017); 'Rage Rises', Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World (Civic Leicester, 2020); 'Biafra', Where We Find Ourselves (Arachne Press, 2021); 'Aliens Live', Poetry and Settled Status for All (Civic Leicester, 2022). Her debut collection of poetry, Blood and Water ¿bara na mmiri, is published by Waterloo Press (2020). She serves as a Church of England priest in London.