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"This collection provides a startling new look at contemporary poetry in Ghana. It is a redefinition, not of poetry but of the social uses of poetry. You can almost see any of these poems being performed at a party or any social function, accompanied by drums, cymbals, guitars or drums."- Kwasi Gyan-Appenteng (President, Ghana Association of Writers)

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Publié par	Woeli Dekutsey
Date de parution	01 janvier 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789988626525
Langue	English

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NEW GHANAIAN POETS

WOELI PUBLISHING SERVICES

Edited by Martin Egblewogbe Laban Carrick Hill

Published by Woeli Publishing Services P. O. Box NT 601 Accra New Town Ghana Tel:0302227182/0302229294 Emal: woelipublishing@yahoo.co.uk woeli@woelipublishing.com

PRODUCED IN GHANA Printed by Paragon Printiiing Press, Accra New Town

Contents

Preface by Laban Carrick Hill IntroductionMartin Egblewogbe by

DARKO ANTWI We Blacks 1

ANDY ARYEETEY Eno Serwah 2

KWASI AGYAPONG BOATENG Unique Life4

NANA NYARKO BOATENG No Canto5 “Don’t You Tell or You’ll Die”6

KOW NYAN BREW From Diapers to Shrouds8

KWABENA DANSO Trotro Chronicles9

ELORM DOGBO An African in this Generation 11

NANA ADWOA DONKOR Akuaba 12

NOVISI DZITRIE Ol’ Driver Grand-Papa 13 Passer-By 15

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MARTIN EGBLEWOGBE 16 The Stars Still Shine Despite the Clouds 16 Death and Friday Night 17 A Cigarette With Sonia As the Fan Went Round and Round 18 The Church the Law and Finances 19

THERESAH PATRINE ENNIN WomaninaTaxi21 Sometimes22

NANA FREDUA-AGYEMANG Finding My Voice 23

BERNARD AKOI-JACKSON Na Waa! 24 Ena Akuba’s Pots 25

MERCY ANANEH-FREMPONG SameFame–SaneFame27 Thoughts & Patterns 28

SUSAN BOYLE Susan Boyle 29 You Be Good, Not Me32

NII LANTEY Obukuntu33

L. S. Lazaro37 Harmattan39 TheGrandEmporium42

PRINCE MENSAH FreshMemoriesofanOldVillage43 ASANGBA REGINALD TALUA I Am the Glowworm 44

CRYSTAL TETTEY A Beautiful Cry46 Kokompe to Lapaz49

TEDDY TOTIMEH Time51 Ghana52 Bumps53 Evensong54

Author Biographies Index of Titles

55 62

Preface

I f irst came to Ghana in July of 2008. When I arrived, my head was full of all sorts of dreams and fantasies about what Ghana was. I had read about the heady years of post independence, the f lowering of Ghanaian culture. I had read such writers as Kwesi Brew, Kari Dako, Kof i Anyidoho, and Kof i Awoonor. I imagined that the tradition these wonderful poets began would lead to a kind of utopian world of literary culture. Instead, what I found was a fractured literary community. Very little actual Ghanaian literature was being published. On the avenues and streets of Accra and other cities and villages in the country, almost no bookstores existed. Those that did sold religious tracts or education materials. When I met with Efo Kodjo Mawugbe, acclaimed Ghanaian playwright and a deputy executive director of artistic at the National Theater of Ghana, I learned that even someone as prominent as himself had to self-publish his work. Coming from the United States, a country where I have been able to make a modest living as a writer, I was struck by the brutal reality of Ghanaian literary culture in the 21st century and was struck by how the promise of forty years prior did not become reality. Fortunately, I was able to stumble upon a group of young writers who were passionate about literature, and poetry in particular. I met Martin Egblewogbe, a lecturer in the University of Ghana’s physics department, who was just about to self-publish his f irst book of stories, Mr. Happy and The Hammer of God. I stumbled upon the work of Theresah Patrine Ennin in an anthology of Ghanaian poetry I had picked up in the gift shop of the Kakum National Forest. Woeli Publishing had put outAn Anthology of Contemporary Ghanaian Poems four years earlier. After reading the collection, I immediately