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About the Book

Imagination's Many Rooms is a well-crafted collection of bristling essays on different but related subjects. Partly socio-political and literary commentary, partly a young poet's reminiscences and encounters with global literary and cultural icons, the individual pieces are thematically grouped into sections in an organic anthology. It is written in a highly arresting style, with two of the pieces being essayistic conversations with a dead Canadian writer and a dead Nigerian scholar-poet respectively.

These essays first appeared in the Maple Tree Literary Supplement (MTLS) literary journal in slightly different forms as editorials for specific editions of the Ezine. The essay, "The Example of Mandela" is anthologized as "The Peaceful "Trouble!" in Mandela: Tributes to a Global Icon (Falola 2014).

Amatoritsero Ede is an international award-winning poet born in Nigeria. He has published three highly acclaimed poetry collections, A writers Pains & Caribbean Blues (1998), Globetrotter & Hitler's Children (2009) and Teardrops on the Weser (2021). The first collection won the 1998 All Africa Okigbo Prize for Literature and the second was nominated for the Nigerian Literature Prize in 2013. A widely anthologized poet, Ede also won second prize in the First May Ayim Award: International Black German Prize in 2004. He is literary scholar and Assistant Professor of English at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick as well as the Publisher and Managing Editor of the Maple Tree Literary Supplement at . Imagination's Many Rooms is his first essay collection.