Songs of the Season

These poems from one of Africa's most highly acclaimed poets and the winner of the 1991 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa are an ironic celebration of collective aspirations failures guilts and hopes. They call for change in a society wracked with problems. The poet sets out to produce a collection that captures the significant happenings of the time in a tune that is simple accessible topical relevant and artistically pleasing and as he puts it: 'to remind kings about the corpses which line their way to the throne to show the rich the slums which fester behind their castles to praise virtue denounce vice to mirror the triumphs and travails of the downtrodden to celebrate the green glory of the rainy season and the brown accent of the dry to distil poetry from the dust and clay of the vast prodigious land - songs plucked from the lips of my land in its manifold laughters and sorrows.'