# Poetry in Times of Conflict

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**Editors:** Meera Chakravorty, Geraldine Sinyuy[⌊A sample cover of the book: dark purple coloured handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Poetry-in-Times-of-Conflict-scaled-1.jpeg)
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Pages:** 60 **Year of Publication:** 2020 **Price:** Rs 200 / £10 **ISBN:** 978-
81-949985-4-9 (9788194998549)

_**About the Editors**_

**Meera Chakravorty** is a research faculty member in the Department of Cultural
Studies, Jain University, Bengaluru, India. She has translated into Kannada Bengali
novels that won Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters) awards, like Manoj
Basu’s _Nishikutumba_ and Amiyabhushan Majumdar’s _Rajnagar_, as well as a collection
of Jibanananda Das’s poetry and Saonli Mitra’s play _Nathavati Anathavat_. She translated
into Bengali a
 collection of Kannada _Vachana_s by medieval poet visionaries challenging
stereotypes, and the renowned Kannada author Devnoor Mahadev. _Essays __in Philosophy
and Culture, Consciousness, Time and Praxis_, and _Colours of __Mind_, along with
edited volumes and poetry collections in both English and Bengali, are some of her
other publications. Her domains of interest are philosophy, social justice, women’s
studies and cultural studies. Her philosophical research on “Enquiry into Time” 
was awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, USA. She was a member of the Karnataka
State Women’s Commission. Her involvement in women’s struggles over the years has
been recorded in many journals.

**Geraldine Sinyuy** earned her PhD in English (Commonwealth Literature) from the
University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. She is currently an English Language and Literature
in English teacher at Government Bilingual High School Down Town Bamenda, Cameroon.
She earned a Secondary and High School Teacher’s Diploma at the Higher Teachers 
Training College, University of Yaoundé I, and taught English as a Foreign Language
at Government Technical College Bangoulap, Bangangte from 2006 to 2016. She was 
part-time Assistant Lecturer of Medical English at Université des Montagnes, Bangangte(
2010-2014) and English Language part-time teacher (2005-2007) at English High School,
Yaoundé. She has published academic articles in international journals on culture,
gender and migration in postcolonial literatures in English. Sinyuy writes folktales,
short stories and poetry, and was a featured storyteller on World Pulse in 2017.
She has attended many international conferences, one of which, held in Bengaluru,
was where she met Meera Chakravorty, and the idea of this poetry anthology was conceived.

_**About the Book**_

“This book is a collection of responses to the plight of the internally displaced
persons from various poets in Cameroon and Nigeria. The poems decry the indifference
that society maintains in the face of a crisis which strips human beings of both
their rights and their homes.”

~ Geraldine Sinyuy

“In Cameroon, people have taken it for granted that they have been dedicated to 
the country in their resistance against the rebels, the sole object of whom is to
create tragedies to make people fragile and powerless. But people who, through conflict
and chaos, stand condemned in the eyes of the rebel army, stand like the famished
gulls before them, still consider their passion for their country as the root of
their continuous striving for joyful days in future. They believe strongly that 
some day, the tormentors will eventually bring this chaotic period to an end. However,
for the time being, they will have to plunge perilously to the very depths of resistance.
It is in honour of these lion-hearted individuals that this anthology expresses 
our solidarity.”

~ Meera Chakravorty

_**Contents**_
 Poems by Blossom N. Fondo, Geraldine Sinyuy, Joshua Akemecha, Lola
Orlando Laika, Mbuh Tennu Mbuh, Ngah Beatrice Wirnsungnin, Onuorah Valentine Chukwuebuka,
Bertha Bongajum, Nyaa Hans Ndah, Gladys Focho Ngwi, Peter Suh-Nfor Tangyie, Tata-
Banin Wan-Ebsiy, Vivian Bongka Tah and Meera Chakravorty