This volume contains poems from 1966 to 1989. "A Shuttle in the Crypt", written while Soyinka was in prison, maps out the course trodden by a mind under solitary confinement. "Idanre", a poem on the creation myth of Ogun, was written for the Commonwealth Arts Festival, while "Mandela's Earth" presents a selection of poems that are of searing urgency.
- ISBN13 9780413764607
- Publish Date 21 February 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 December 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English