ARROWS
OF WORDS: SYNW BOOK OF THE MONTH (MAY
2020)
“Arrows of Words” is a
poetry/essay anthology published in honour of Prof. Chinua Achebe, by an
association of young writers, known as the Society of Young Nigerian Writers
(Anambra State Chapter).
It was edited by Izunna
Okafor and unveiled during the 2019 edition of the Chinua Achebe Literary
Festival, which is the association’s annual literary event held in honour of
the foremost Nigerian writer and critic – Achebe.
Published in 2019, the
anthology contains works and essays written and submitted by writers from
different countries of the world, in response to the association’s ‘Call for
Submissions’ prior to the 2016, 2017 and 2018 editions of the event
respectively. These works previously published respectively as separate collections,
each in its year’s edition of the event.
However, in 2019, there
was no fresh ‘Call for Submission’, rather, the three previous separate
collections were collated and published as a single anthology; and that gave
birth to this masterpiece, entitled “Arrows of Words”.
