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“It is always a delight to read a work by Remi Raji. Master craftsman, with a unique gift for the magical feel of tone and trope, word and cadence, melody and meaning, Raji has certainly established himself now as one of our finest poets. This new collection from his stable does not disappoint. Plucked out of the poet's numerous journeys through different lands and diverse encounters, and of his triumph over the trauma of a raging epidemic, the songs of Wanderer Cantos celebrate and re-affirm the eloquent and indomitable essence of our human spirit.”

—Okinba Launko [Femi Osofisan], poet-playwright and essayist, winner of the Fonlon-Nichols Prize, 2006 and the Thalia Prize, 2016.

“In Wanderer Cantos, we encounter a troubadour traversing the vast landscapes of our hearts and minds, our shared commonalities of lives saved and lost, promises betrayed, stunted national histories, hope reaffirmed and the gratitude we now compulsorily feel for daily breath in these times of the coronavirus. Wanderer Cantos leaves us affected and educated in its sheer length and range of what is possible to achieve with poetry. In this collection, Raji affirms his patriotism and passion for our native land with a time-tested tour de force that has rightfully earned him a place in the corpus #BestofNigeria.”

—Toyin Adewale-Gabriel, author of Naked Testimonies, 1995; Breaking the Silence, 1996; and 25 New Nigerian Poets, 2000.

“The poetic eloquence and social tenor, the intimate tone and tender rhythm make Wanderer Cantos a significant booster to a Rajian aesthetics long marked by heightened sensitivity to the contradictions of life. As in his earlier collections, Wanderer Cantos marries the public and the private in measured craft that renders poetry more human than we ever thought.”

—Emman Egya Sule, author of What the Sea Told Me, 2009 winner of ANA/Gabriel Okara Prize.

“A wag once wrote that “when you leave home, home leaves you”. Remi Raji debunks that because, like the tortoise and its shell, the farther our poet sojourns, the closer he is bound to the land of his birth. The poems in this collection are jeremiads for a benighted nation and incantations of hope for a new dawn. These are personal testaments garbed in the language of the griot and the poet's word-play is often devastating.”

—Toni Kan, author of Songs of Absence and Despair, 2009; and The Carnivorous City, 2016.