Toni Kan Onwordi
Toni Kan Onwordi holds both a B.A. and M.A. English (Literature) degrees from the Universities of Jos and Lagos. His works have been published widely in the Art pages of prominent Nigerian newspapers and his poems have appeared in the anthology 25 New Nigerian Poets edited by Toyin Adewale. He has also had short stories published in anthologies like We-Men, Little Drops (1) and Diamond and Ashes. An award winning poet, essayist and short story writer, his awards have taken him to Scotland and Switzerland. Toni Kan is currently working on a novel, Secrets of the Untold.
Entries by this Author
A Review of Lola Shoneyin's For The Love of Flight
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published April 21, 2011
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For the Love of Flight is Lola Shoneyin’s third collection of poems and it goes a long way in cementing what is, already, a well deserved reputation as an important literary voice and poet who also happens to write fiction and children’s stories. She also remains the most prolific female Nigerian poet working now or at any other time in the history of Nigerian literature...There Are Ghosts Abroad In Fukushima - Poems by Toni Kan
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published April 16, 2011
- Poetry
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The ghosts are abroad in FukushimaSeeking answers, they will not know rest
Like the rest who though alive will never be whole
Their world arrested at lunch time
When the earth spewed fire and the sea belched havoc...
When A Dream Lingers Too Long - Poems by Toni Kan Onwordi
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published May 5, 2007
- Poetry
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“When a dream lingers too long On the threshold of becoming
It sires a nightmare
Taking our nights hostage"
Don't Go Home, He Knows - A Short Story by Toni Kan Onwordi
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published May 4, 2007
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“There is so much pain lurking in those things that give us pleasure. I was like a woman teasing a bad tooth with her tongue and dreading the day my pleasure would sire true pain. The day has come and like a warrior caught without his sword in battle I am unprepared..."
Nights Of The Creaking Bed - A Short Story by Toni Kan Onwordi
- By Toni Kan Onwordi
- Published May 23, 2005
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'When you're fifteen and in the full grip of adolescence, your mother's nakedness is not the best thing to behold...'