Voyage of Nostalgia

By Victor Okorie

Victor Okorie was born into an Ibo family in Mbano southeastern Nigeria, a scientist and esteemed development passionate, gifted in the literary and performing arts. Among his many skills, he indulges a devotion to poetry which obliges him a quiet amusement. Voyage of Nostalgia is his first published book of literature.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Oct 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496986894

Victor Okorie

Victor Okorie was born into an Ibo family in Mbano southeastern Nigeria, a scientist and esteemed development passionate, gifted in the literary and performing arts. Among his many skills, he indulges a devotion to poetry which obliges him a quiet amusement. Voyage of Nostalgia is his first published book of literature.

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/06/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4969-8849-2 (sc)

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……in memory of my beloved mum

Rosemary Adanma Okorie

About the book

Of a truth I romance the literary arts with a penchant for poetry which tend to pose for me a sublime amusement. I recall as a schooling kid reading Achebe, Shakespeare and Soyinka, John Keats and John Pepper Clerk, relished with a ravening appetite; the beauty of sarcasms and innuendos brought to bear in the engineering of rhetoric.

I never really thought to publish this book; it was merely a hubby I have kept for many years documenting my feelings in resonating verses mostly inspired by the interest of observing people, societies and cultures while living in different places in time.

Voyage of Nostalgia is a modest product from the repertoires of my poetic memoirs galvanised for many years in the forge of meaningless bits and pieces of the factual and the imagined. Like seedlings on incubation, I