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FRETWIRE is an attempt to understand the shifting meaning of poetry. Its critical pace, contortions, grace, quiet revolution. These things that grow out of varied enthusiasms, refusals, and shape-shifting poems. Among other phenomena, for me, poetry has turned out to be good in making connections with other people. Despite everything, there is beauty. The mixture of anatomical intimacy and spiritual/psychological intimacy is my ideal in this book. In FRETWIRE, I have made peace with displacement and rootedness.Uche Nduka is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and songwriter. He is the author of EEL ON REEF (2007), IJELE (2012), NINE EAST (2013), FACING YOU (2020) and 8 other books of poetry. His essays on travel, poetics, consciousness, music and mortality can be found in books and online. He teaches Literature at CUNY (Queens College) and lives in New York City

Mụta Igbo Taa (Learn Igbo Today) is a bilingual book that explores the basic Igbo communication. It is useful for all the beginners of Igbo language. It helps children and adults learning Igbo to strengthen their communicative competence towards the language. It has both first language, second and foreign language learners in mind as the contents are backed up with informative and appealing illustrations.OGBONNAYA OKORO is an Igbo linguist, researcher, historian, teacher, translator and author of numerous books in Igbo language. He studied Linguistics and Igbo at the University of Nigeria, Nsụka where his books were used for both undergraduate and graduate level. His Igbo books have been used for exams in different high schools and universities in Nigeria. He subsequently trained in Movie Subtitles and Translations with the University of the West of Scotland and Newcastle University, UK. His interviews have appeared on notable Newspapers, TV, Radio stations, etc. As a translator, he was the BBC first Igbo translator and subsequently has translated for different international and national organizations such as UNESCO and United Nations. Ogbonnaya has written over 58 books in Igbo Language and currently the Translations Director, Abibiman Publishers UK and also the founder of Igbotic.net.

Teardrops on the Weser navigates a geographical river that runs through northwestern Germany, but also an autobiographical river that's sourced in the Niger River Delta of Amatoritsero Ede's native Nigeria. Thus, his river of letters-of type versus stereotype, which is sectioned alphabetically, echoes African-American poet Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," but also shouts out to German poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the martyred, Nigerian poet Ken Saro-Wiwa. But one might also think of Canadian poet Judith Fitzgerald's River (1995) and Brit bard Ted Hughes' River (1983). But the echoes are extras-just glintings upon the poet's original scintillance: "a sharp drawn breath / and I swallow sea water / just as a swallow swoops // across my view and up / to claim the roof / above my head." No mater what: Never can you read the same poem the same way twice. You lunge forward on these rapids; you don't lounge.¿- George Elliott Clarke7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2016 & 2017)A masterful evocation of past wrongs through the lens of a seductively peaceful present. Amatoritsero Ede's meditative voice seduces us into a voyeuristic trance on a German river bank. Until we are suddenly awakened to the realisation that the "teardrops" are not for the Weser but for the burden of history carried all the way to Africa and beyond. A compelling read.- Olive SeniorHere's poetry at its best. Here's a collection that astounds with the freshness of its imagery and the ripple and flow of its lyricism. Like the river of its title, it runs non-stop through the reader's mind. This is a collection to return to over and over again.- Helon Habila, Award-Wining, novelist and poet.