Poetry from Africa …

Review of Henry Ajumeze’s ‘Dimples on The Sand’

Dimples on the sand … the title says it all in a few words. A qualitative collection of poetry that speaks to the mind as to the eye … An African world of images and expressions, a Nigerian world of expression hardly known to us, invaluable in it’s value … only one remark. Poems contain sporadically Nigerian words  to express a word with a typical African notion … This leaves the reader guessing for a deeper meaning of the poem in question.  Exotic? Yes … Necessary? Probably yes, in order not to lose part of the meaning of a word … Inevitable? No … I can only praise the swift reply of the author proposing to foresee a webpage with the explication of Nigerian notions and words. I hope to be able to present you an excerpt of this project soon. Remember these words and gather these thoughts … it’s better to read and discover a new world, than not to read and remain ignorant. Open yourself to the world …

Lena Vanelslander

swam many waters. History, Comparative Culture Analysis, Languages, Mythology, Literature, Poetry, too many to sum up. After a life of tribulations the turning point came in her mid twenties: she started to write actively poetry in English. Her melancholic and darkminded nature colour her poems to an individual signature in both time and space. Poems got published in the Stray Branch, Savage Manners, the Delinquent and The Sylvan Echo. Her first chapbook ‘Ma Chanson de Rien du Tout’ has been released in August this year. Her first book of poetry, written with Marilyn Campiz, Quills of Fire, will appear in November 2009. Currently she is contributing editor for Gloom Cupboard and Outsider Writers.

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