Career
Nduka's volumes of poetry are Flower Child (1988), Second Act (1994), The Bremen Poems (1995), Chiaroscuro (1997) (winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize), If Only the Night (2002), Heart’s Field (2005), Eel on Reef (2007) and Ijele (2012). Nduka edited the anthologies, Poets in Their Youth (1988), and Und auf den Straßen eine Pest: Junge Nigerianische Lyrik (1996). Nduka has also written Belltime Letters (2000), a book of commentaries and whimsical meditations in prose. His work has been translated into German and Dutch.
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