Unbound: An Anthology of New Nigerian Poets Under 40

Unbound, an anthology of poems, gives voice to a generation that has been culturally, socially and politically underrepresented. But the poets now tell their stories, declaring: “We are here. Our norms and values are valid.”

The target audience for this anthology is anyone, regardless of geographical location and social identity or stratum, who is interested in Nigerian lives and experiences – whether at home or in the diaspora – as they manifest in elegant poetry.

Read in a chain, the poems sound like the everyday voices around us: the maturing teenager who discovers another shape to love, the father’s empathic response to the son’s youthful inquisitions, voices from war-torn places, people expressing joy and grief and angst and fortitude in a dystopic postcolonial state.