Bilie Na Ntụ / Rise from the Ashes

<p><em>Bilie Na Ntụ / Rise from the Ashes</em> by Catherine Okoronkwo is a bilingual collection of extraordinary range and emotional depth rooted in grief faith protest and cultural inheritance. Switching fluently between English Nigerian Pidgin and Igbo the poems navigate personal and collective histories of mourning displacement resilience and renewal. Okoronkwo draws on Christian iconography ancestral memory and everyday experience to craft a poetics that is intimate yet unflinching lyrical yet politically alert. The work moves between continents languages and registers holding space for lament as well as celebration and affirming survival as a sacred dynamic act.</p>