Books Debut poetry collection · 2022
birthmarks
by Precious Chiebonam Nnebedum
Her debut collection explores identity, faith, family, race, belonging and the experience of growing up between Nigeria and Austria.
Available from Haymon Verlag, Amazon and bookshops
- Format
- Poetry collection
- Languages
- English and German
- Publisher
- Haymon Verlag
- Published
- 11 October 2022
About the book
birthmarks is Precious Chiebonam Nnebedum’s debut poetry collection, published by Haymon Verlag in 2022. Written in English and German, it explores identity, faith, family, race, belonging and the experience of growing up between Nigeria and Austria.
The poems move between page and stage, intimacy and performance, tenderness and confrontation: the places where the personal becomes political, and where inherited stories meet the lives we choose for ourselves.
Reviews
“An excellent debut.”
Matthias Ehlers · WDR
“Precious Chiebonam Nnebedum proves that she is a force to be reckoned with.”
Haymon Verlag
The author
Precious Chiebonam Nnebedum is a Nigerian-Austrian poet, author and performer based in London. Raised between Nigeria and Austria, she writes and performs in English, German and D-English about memory, faith, family, migration and home. Her work has received the Exil Literary Award, the Elisabeth Seidl Award and the Josef Krainer Award for Performance Art.
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