SEVHAGE is pleased to announce the publication of I STUMBLE INSIDE ME LOOKING FOR SUNLIGHT, the new poetry collection by Nigerian poet and writer S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema. The collection marks another point in Agema’s continuing engagement with memory, home, nationhood, love, loss and the many ways in which people search for meaning and light amid personal and collective uncertainties.
In I STUMBLE INSIDE ME LOOKING FOR SUNLIGHT, the inward journey suggested by the title opens into wider conversations. The poems move between the personal and the communal, carrying questions of belonging, relationships, country, memory and survival. At different turns, they are intimate and questioning, tender and troubled, returning again and again to what it means to keep reaching towards light even when the way is uncertain. The collection continues a poetic journey that includes Bring Our Casket Home, Home Equals Holes and Memory and the Call of Waters, which was won the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2022 Nigeria Prize for Literature.
On the international scene, you can get it from Amazon by CLICKING HERE. If you are in Nigeria, you can purchase copies directly from Abuja at:
Spine & Label Books
3rd Floor, Rhema Plaza
Opposite NAF Centre
Kado, Abuja
Adam’s Pages
Kingfem GA, 247 Plaza
Olugbesoye Olujimi Street
Off Ahmadu Bello Way
Kado, Abuja 900108
Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria.
The book is also available in Kano at: The Third Space, Flat 2, Besides Nooren Pharmacy, No 2 Bala Lambu Street, off Gwarzo Road, Kano 700281, Kano, Nigeria.
From anywhere else in Nigeria, you can order the collection from, Noirledge Book Store, which offers delivery across the country.
This publication offers old and new readers another opportunity to encounter Agema’s poetry and its continuing conversations with memory, people, place and the complicated business of being human. Perhaps, this is what the title ultimately invites us to do: to stumble inward, searching, despite everything, for sunlight.
I STUMBLE INSIDE ME LOOKING FOR SUNLIGHT is available now!
