Heart Songs

Winner of the Winner, ANA/Cadbury Prize, 2009, Heart Songs, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo�s first collection of poems, reveals the hidden poetic mind of a writer who had previously worked extensively and excelled as a novelist. At one level. the poems read like the products of a souls just out of a certain prison. They break the barriers of the unity of thought that governs the writing of a novel, as Adimora-Ezeigbo is at home with subjects as varies as power, love, culture, gender, philosophy and crime in this collection.