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#PoetryTalk | Different Poems Travel Different Routes | Interview with Toyin Adewale-Gabriel
Toyin Adewale-Gabriel is a Nigerian poet, short story writer, literary critic and activist.
She was cofounder and coordinator for several years of the Association of Women Writers of Nigeria. Her works include: Naked Testimonies (1995), Die Aromaforscherin (1998), Flackernde Kerzen (1999), and 16 Short Stories by Nigerian Women Writers (2005), and Bitter Chocolate (2010).
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She has won awards for her poetry and short fiction. She is the editor of 25 New Nigerian Poets (2000) and co-editor of “Inkwells” and Breaking the Silence: an anthology of short stories (1996).
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I was struck by the imagery: “of chicken thighs unloved by excess” in “Explorers of Aromas,” even as the poem evokes images of dissolution, abjection and decay.
How did you come about that imagery? What defines a poem for you? How do you go about writing a poem?
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