Feathers in Reverse

written by Tikum Mbah Azonga

Feathers in Reverse is the ideal gift for a loved one who is scared of poetry. It engages and immerses readers with the luring subtlety of a serpent. Themes treated include good and evil, heaven and earth, man and woman, birth and death, urbanism and rural life, wealth and poverty. As much as the poet highlights salient issues and conflicts in everyday life, he suggests answers to burning problems as well. A common thread runs through the over 300 poems feathered and featured in this collection. The notion of the ‘feather’ is cross-cultural. It reminds us of the feather used as a pen in ancient Europe and the ‘red feather’ that is stuck on the caps of African notables as a mark of distinction. {Feathers in Reverse} is a magic pudding to be sampled, shared and indulged.

Tikum Mbah Azonga

Tikum Mbah Azonga is by profession a teacher of French and Spanish, a translator-interpreter and a journalist. He has schooled and studied and worked in Cameroon, France and England. While in London he worked as a Press and Public Relations Officer at the London Borough of Barnet and as a journalist for Africa Journal and later West Africa Magazine. Cup Man And Other Stories is his fourth book. The first three were The Wooden Bicycle and Other Stories, Sighs and Whispers from within, and Say No to Aids. He has also co-authored La Bande Fumante and Goutes d`Encre in 2005. He is married with children.