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Austyn Njoku

Austyn Njoku studied French Language and Literature at the University of Port Harcourt. A poet and short story writer, Njoku?s poems have been published in recent anthologies like Passport to the New World (edited by Sunny Ayewanu in collaboration with The Nigerian Commission for UNESCO) and the International Library of Poetry anthologies. More of his poems have been published in Nigerian national newspapers and magazines and put to Baroque music in THE SOUND OF POETRY. His first collection, I?ve Been A Crew, got an Honourable Mention in the Cadbury Association of Nigeria Authors (ANA) Poetry Competition. His second, Scents Of Dawn, is being published. A staff of Nigeria Airways, Njoku is also the Treasurer of ANA, Lagos chapter.

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February 13 - A Poem by Austyn Njoku

I prefer you in my dream
The dream I've hugged
For seasons with my soul...

Auchi - Poems by Austyn Njoku

"Do not leave for Fugah

tonight, your eyes sleepy

like distant stars in dewy

skies, your hearty laughter

stifles into sweet dead smiles..."

E B E R E O N W U!

As I write this painful piece, his mangled body lies in the mortuary at the General hospital, Ikeja, Lagos. This is so sad, more so because his beloved mother's corpse also lies in a mortuary, in some hospital somewhere in Imo State...



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