The Geez by Nii Parkes (best books for students to read .TXT) 📗
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am grateful for the friends who see me, the family who hold me and the Ga language that gave me my foundation in dreaming. Also for Ms G, thank you for all the space and spice you give me.
I’d also like to thank editors of the following journals where versions of the poems in the book appeared earlier: Cordite Poetry Review for “Seeing Eyes”; Miracle Monocle for “Defences” and a section from “Caress”; Obsidian for “Locking Doors”; The Rialto for “Trumpet”; and Johannesburg Review of Books for “Bottle” and “Tree of the Invisible Man”.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nii Ayikwei Parkes is a writer, editor and publisher, who has won acclaim as a children’s author, poet, broadcaster and novelist. He is the author of the poetry chapbooks: eyes of a boy, lips of a man (1999), his début; M is for Madrigal (2004), a selection of seven jazz poems; and Ballast (2009), an imagination of the slave trade by balloon. His poem, ‘Tin Roof’, was selected for the Poems on the Underground initiative in 2007, followed by the poem ‘Barter,’ chosen from his first full collection The Makings of You, published by Peepal Tree in 2010. His novel, Tail of the Blue Bird (Jonathan Cape, 2009), hailed by the Financial Times as ‘a beautifully written fable… simple in form, but grappling with urgent issues,’ was lauded internationally, becoming a bestseller in Germany and notably winning France’s two major prizes for translated fiction – Prix Baudelaire and Prix Laure Bataillon – in 2014. He is the author of two books for children under the name K.P. Kojo and has a collection of short stories, The City Will Love You, due from Unbound. Nii is the Senior Editor and publisher at flipped eye publishing, serves on the boards of World Literature Today and the AKO Caine Prize and produces the Literature and Talks programme at Brighton Festival.
As a socio-cultural commentator and advocate for African writing, Nii has led forums internationally, has sat on discussion panels for BBC Radio, and he founded the African Writers’ Evening series.
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