REVIEWER: TONI KAN BOOK TITLE: FOR THE LOVE OF FLIGHT AUTHOR: LOLA SHONEYIN PUBLISHER: CASSAVA REPUBLIC, 2010 PAGES: 58 RATING: 2 out of 3 For the Love of...
Author - 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.
There Are Ghosts Abroad In Fukushima (i) There are ghosts abroad in Fukushima Spectral presences denied resting places Interred in watery graves they bristle...
She’s Young and Sweet She’s young and sweet And clad in soft silk I shoot her looks of steel And watch her nipples explode Then I smile and look...
“Don’t go home, he knows.” Her voice is low, so low I could have missed her warning but for the gentle tug on my arm. I stop and in the dying...
She had sad eyes and a face that was made for crying. But you knew at once that she was a girl who had taught herself not to cry. Stella had a look that made...
My mother was a kept woman. It was something we knew. We – my cousin Meze and I. It was something we knew without being told, the sort of knowledge that...
