Ben Okri On His New Poetry Collection – Listen on WNYC

For over thirty years, the work of the Booker Prize winning British-Nigerian author Ben Okri, known for his 1991 novel, The Famished Road, has gone unpublished in the U.S. Recently, two of Okri’s works have been published in this country, including his latest poetry collection, A Fire in My Head. The collection includes poems about 2020’s racial justice protests, the Grenfell Tower disaster, and the pandemic. Okri joins to discuss and read from the collection.

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