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Wild: Official Launch of a New Collection of Poetry Including Drinks Reception
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Booker prize winner Ben Okri launches his first collection of poetry in more than a decade at this year’s Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival. Okri will read from his new collection, Wild, and the launch will be followed by a drinks reception.
The poems range widely across many subjects. Some are autobiographical and some are philosophical. They treat subjects as diverse as war, love, nature and the difficulty of truly seeing. For Okri, ‘wild’ is an alternative to the familiar, ‘where energy meets freedom, where chaos can be honed’.
Okri is author of nine novels including The Famished Road, which won the 1991 Booker Prize, and Starbook. He has published various volumes of short stories and two previous works of poetry, African Elegy and Mental Fight. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE and a number of international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa.