Narrative Landscape Press, a leading Nigerian publishing house, has announced the acquisition of Contraband Bodies, a new poetry collection by Nigerian poet Olajide Salawu.
Describing Contraband Bodies in his own words, Salawu says:
“It is a personal record migratory travails and a country lost to precarious politics. It is a conscious elegy of displacement and home regained through the tribute of roads, evoking diasporic conditions in a new way by highlighting through pixelated imagery, syncopated language, and lapidary details the diverse circumstances of being a Black migrant in Africa, Europe, and America.”
In line with its mission “to distill the essence of the publishing process and provide services to other publishing houses and self-publishing authors within the Nigerian space,” Narrative Landscape Press continues to demonstrate the power and significance of literary works like this.
Olajide Salawu is the author of Preface for Leaving Homeland, published under the African Poetry Book Fund. His poetry and essays have been featured in various prestigious journals, including LitHub, The Mantle, Lolwe, The Republic, CBC, Literary Review of Canada, and Prairie Schooner.
