Stone Child and Other Poems by Syl Cheney-Coker (Synopsis)

Introduction:-

Stone Child and Other Poems by Syl Cheney-Coker is an anthology that embodies the poem "The Breast of the Sea by Syl Cheney-Coker" and many other poems of his.

As already noted, "The Breast of the Sea" is one of the forty (40) poems in the anthology titled Stone Child and Other Poems published by the poet in the year 2008 with ISBN 9789780810672.

Synopsis:-

Stone Child is about the nameless gemstone child that became such a feature in the recent history of the poet’s country. Written with compassion and moral deliberation, the poems in the first section of this volume resound with the pain and love that the poet felt as he reflected on the tumultuous politics and tragic destiny of his beautiful land. The rest of the volume is in homage to people and places around the world that have also touched the poet deeply. It is Cheney-Coker at his most humane, while he was dealing with a personal tragedy during his most recent period in exile.

The list of poems in the book are: Homage to Stone Child, New Year in Freetown, 1999, Our Lady of Diamonds, When the Dead Talk, The Meaning of Our Rivers 1, The Meaning of Our Rivers 2, This Evening, Next Morning, The Breast of the Sea, Letters from Home, The Golden Chalice, Out of the Abyss, Old Rites, New Mirrors, Las Vegas Gothic, Short Tail, On Viewing Chris Ofili’s “Holy Virgin Mary”, All His White Hairs, Olodumare’s Clay, The Birds At the Harbourfront, The Orators, Harmonies, Death in New York, Sept 11, 1973 & 2001, Oceanic Cantabile, Turkish Diptych, Iranian Diptych, The Gods of the G-8 Summit, Lake Fire, To My Wife Dying of Cancer 1, To My Wife Dying of Cancer 2, Homecoming, New Frontier, Life Sketches, A Simple Lesson, Transition, Portraits of a family, The Madman Near the British High Commission in Freetown, Profit and Loss, The Nobel Tree Woman & Elegy For the Ebola Saint, Bitter Leaves, Widow(er)hood.     

The Author:-

Syl Cheney-Coker, Sierra Leonean poet and novelist. Author of three previous volumes: Concerto for an Exile; The Graveyard Also Has Teeth; and The Blood in the Desert’s Eyes. In 1991, he was awarded the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize (Africa’s Best Book Region), for his novel The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dumbar. He has also won Commonwealth Short Story Prize. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, Dutch, Russian, French, Portuguese and Chinese.    

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Homecoming By Lenrie Peters

The present reigned supreme
Like the shallow floods over the gutters
Over the raw paths where we had been,
The house with the shutters.

Too strange the sudden change
Of the times we buried when we left
The times before we had properly arranged
The memories that we kept.

Our sapless roots have fed
The wind-swept seedlings of another age.
Luxuriant weeds
have grown where we led
The Virgins to the water's edge.

There at the edge of the town
Just by the burial ground
Stands the house without a shadow
Lived in by new skeletons.

That is all that is left
To greet us on the homecoming
After we have paced the world
And longed for returning.

© Lenrie Peters (1932-2009)

NOTE: A Gambian born poet, Lenrie Peters, was a great writer and even his poetry has always remained a masterpiece. One among the many is "Homecoming", a poem written with gentle tone of self-regret to reveal the theme of certainty of change. The poet was so composed while composing the poet to make sure that each of the five stanzas has four lines accompanied with sweet imageries.

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