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Sketchbook is an e-journal of Eastern and Western short forms of poetry. Editors: Karina Klesko and John Daleiden. Go to Sketchbook


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

What's New?

 

Re-start

After more than 5 years of non-stop editorial work on the Sentinel publications, I took a sudden, but well-deserved holiday.

The unplanned nature of this holiday meant I did not have the luxury of arranging for a stand-in editor. I return on at the end of May. - Nnorom Azuonye

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Sentinel Literary Quarterly

Vol.1 No.2  April-June, 2008 will go live shortly and will feature among other items;

- An Interview with Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike by Sumaila Umaisha.

- An Interview with Jim Bennett by Nnorom Azuonye.

- The problem with Postcolonial Theory by Esiaba Irobi.

- Once Upon a Miracle- a short story by Wumi Raji.

 

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March/April 2008 is now live at www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/no.61

Guest Poet is Dr Dubem Okafor.

Other Poets: Andy Carrington, Joshua Seigal, P A Morbid, and Bruce Gardner.

Interviews:

Dubem Okafor: The Sentinel Interview.

Victor Ehikhamenor: The Sentinel Interview.

Poets on Poets:

Unoma Azuah on Staceyann Chin.

Obododimma Oha on Tom Savage.

Essay: "Okigbo as Cultural Globalist" by Dr Dubem Okafor.

Art:  Photography by Victor Ehikhamenor. 

 - click here now to read

 

 

Dubem Okafor

Guest Poet: Sentinel Poetry (Online)

#61 ▪ March/April 2008

 

Brief like a Poet

an interview with Femi Osofisan

 

Dried Honey

On decayed mass

Courier to steps of rainbows

a poem by Ife Awonubi

 

Rob Godfrey tackles an old question. What is Poetry?

 

Interview with Dubem Okafor

 

Okigbo as Cultural Globalist

First presented at the Christopher Okigbo Conference, USA in September 2007. Read the paper by Dubem Okafor

 

Answering Wallpaper

It takes cool faith to cultivate oblivion.
Poems by Malgorzata Kitowski

 

Alek by Chika Unigwe

...every man wanted her for a wife, her beauty was unrivalled. She could have been a queen. The way she carried herself...read the full story

 

'Poor' Africans Travelling: Home and Exile in younger Nigerian Diasporic Writing.

Afam Akeh takes on four collections by Nigerian writers; Chuma Nwokolo's Memories of Stone, Nnorom Azuonye's The Bridge Selection, Esiaba Irobi's Why I Don't Like Philip Larkin and Uche Nduka's Heart's Field. read it here

 

Steel Tough, Even Now

an interview with Andrew Willoughby

 

 

Mario Petrucci

to be Guest Poet on Sentinel Poetry (Online) #62, May/June 2008. We are pleased to announce that the award-winning poet and teacher, Petrucci, will be our next Guest Poet. An issue not to be missed.

 

 

 

Sentinel Poetry (Online) #62

Among other things, we shall be looking at Chinua Achebe vs Poetry.

4Send in your views on Achebe's poetry

 

On Sentinel Literary Quarterly

4Why only the e-version will stay for now.

 

Sentinel Poetry (Online) news

Editorial Team changes from February 2008

4Amatoritsero Ede and Patrick Iberi exit

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The Expression Warehouse

After more than two years, The Expression Warehouse has been reopened. It will now form a circle of forums where you can post and critique poetry, art and fiction. Because we know poets and artists are also interested in politics, television and music, we shall be including more discussion forum here. You may also announce your events here. 

4The Expression Warehouse

 

 

 

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