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UCHE NDUKA

Poetry Is What I Write."eel on reef" is out now!

About Me

The idea for this aural nook came into existence between the arms of the sun and twilight.BOOKS,GUITARS,drums, maracas,voices,thunderclaps and thoughtwaves have remained its mainstay.He is not a band.He is just a poet dipping in and out of gigs and writing sessions fugitively. Whether from the pulsing sidewalks of Lagos,on the cobbled streets of Bremen,the canal-matrixed Amsterdam,or the frenetic boroughs of New York,this enchanting poet has intrigued and solaced readers and listeners worldwide with his words and music.To a trouble-filled world he posits peace and creativity. His published poetry books include eel on reef(Akashic Books,New York,2007) Flower Child(Update Communications,Lagos,1988),Second Act(Journoblues,Lagos,1994),The Bremen Poems(Newleaf Press,Bremen,1995;English/German Bilingual Edition,Yeti Press,Bremen, 1999),Chiaroscuro(which won the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize for 1997;Yeti Press,Bremen)If Only The Night(Sojourner Press,Amsterdam,2002),Heart's Field(Yeti Press,Bremen,2005)His first prose book titled Belltime Letters(NewLeaf Press,Bremen) appeared in 2000.Until recently,Nduka was a Literature Lecturer at the University of Bremen(Germany).Some of his writings have been translated into German,Dutch,French,Serbo-Croatian.If you are interested in ordering the books,make contact through [email protected],[email protected],Amazon.com,Barnes and Noble,Tesco,and bookshops near you.CHECK OUT THE BLOGS FOR HIS LATEST POEMS.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/16/2007
Band Website: pluriverse.de/uche
Band Members: ME AND THE WIND.
Influences: Breadfruit,Chibuzo,Mbari,Chanter,Udu,Uli,Tongueweb,Nsibidi,B ean Cake,Mmanya,Ututu.
Sounds Like: Stringway,Earthgong,Gourdcheck,Voicepath.
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

AS CLOSE AS

how appropriate,then,to slipstream delightfully into the shambolic.well-heeled funkers;mating fiasco;double kitsch.past all of that,past staying in the attic,past staying away from you.as close as he ...
Posted by UCHE NDUKA on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:13:00 PST

NO SPARKLE BUT GROWS

no sparkle but grows and issues from her flesh. hers and hers alone is the body on which i've spread my thoughts. an earthling?just hit me: her nudity burns away my gloom.      &nb...
Posted by UCHE NDUKA on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:38:00 PST

THERE’S THE COVE

Enter the restless catafalque. Let noon love what it loves. The strip the strip                   nudging a maze. Outside...
Posted by UCHE NDUKA on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:22:00 PST

THESE CONFIGURATIONS

Happy in dispersal,               in variousness, the ceramic shards on the floor.   Beside River Kwai you sit on Buddha's toes. Who wil...
Posted by UCHE NDUKA on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:59:00 PST

THE STREAK

yesterday's soup and the whiff of last week's heavy petting.   unless you understand it was you who chose time while i chose space angled against the sundown of a hard-on.     &nbs...
Posted by UCHE NDUKA on Wed, 28 May 2008 07:56:00 PST

RIGHT THERE

i felt drawn towards you during the dinner party on friday.i watched as you walked in,sat down,crossed your legs,& lit a cigarette.the look on your face was defiant.it seemed you came straight to ...
Posted by UCHE NDUKA on Tue, 20 May 2008 07:33:00 PST

THRUST AFTER THRUST

While swaggering through the elastic secrets.There's no hiding away from it.Eternity has run out of answers & putrifies at noon.This may be a trespass.What has endured in him as a need to help.A v...
Posted by UCHE NDUKA on Tue, 13 May 2008 11:16:00 PST

TO CUT LOOSE

carries in them those words   sinking into a frequented realm those words   carving a pumpkin for two those words   ferrying woven grass across adolescence those words   voting for...
Posted by UCHE NDUKA on Thu, 08 May 2008 10:51:00 PST

THRICE AS MUCH

Tincans in reeds,candywrapper,neontube. Stealing back the past. Why not go berserk. I don't like biographies. I come from a family of freaks. It doesn't make sense Not to go crazy now and then. I know...
Posted by UCHE NDUKA on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:23:00 PST

ONCE AGAIN

     1   Spread your toes At the turn of the light As what's beneath a negligee Begins to surface           2   Where the nig...
Posted by UCHE NDUKA on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:34:00 PST