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'''Timothy Ogene''' is a writer and lecturer at [[Harvard University|Harvard.]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Timothy Ogene|url=https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/timothy-ogene|access-date=2021-08-23|website=aaas.fas.harvard.edu|language=en}}</ref> He is the author of ''[[Descent & Other Poems]], [[The Day Ends Like Any Day]], and [https://uk.bookshop.org/books/seesaw-9781800750166/9781800750166 Seesaw].'' His work has appeared in ''Tincture Journal'',<ref>[http://tincture-journal.com/2017/01/07/a-sequence-by-timothy-ogene/ "A Sequence"], ''Tincture Journal''.</ref> ''[[Numero Cinq]]'',<ref>[http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2015/12/08/absent-calls-poems-timothy-ogene/ "Absent Calls"], ''Numero Cinq''.</ref> ''[[One Throne Magazine]]'',<ref>[http://www.onethrone.com/notes-from-a-discarded-memoir "Notes from A Discarded Memoir"], ''One Throne Magazine''.</ref> ''Poetry Quarterly'',<ref>[https://prolificpress.com/bookstore/poetry-quarterly-c-1/poetry-quarterly-wintersummer-2012-p-55.html ''Poetry Quarterly''.]</ref> ''[[Harvard Review]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu/?q=authors/timothy-ogene|title=Timothy Ogene {{!}} Harvard Review Online|website=harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu|access-date=29 March 2017}}</ref> ''Hong Kong Review of Books'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hkrbooks.com/2017/01/25/welcome-to-lagos/|title=Welcome to Lagos|last=hongkongrb|date=25 January 2017|website=HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評|access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> ''Glasgow Review of Books'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2017/03/29/a-troubling-transformation-a-igoni-barretts-blackass/|title=A TROUBLING TRANSFORMATION: A. Igoni Barrett's 'Blackass'|last=Glasgow Review of Books|date=29 March 2017|website=Glasgow Review of Books|access-date=29 March 2017}}</ref> ''Tahoma Literary Review'',<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Tahoma-Literary-Review-1/dp/098382617X?ie=UTF8&keywords=tahoma%20literary&qid=1420073088&ref_=sr_1_2_twi_2&s=books&sr=1-2 "Monologue for Country and Ex-Neighbours"], ''Tahoma Literary Review''. Retrieved 21 November 2016.</ref> ''The Missing Slate'',<ref>[http://themissingslate.com/2013/10/05/a-strand-of-ice/view-all/ "A Strand of Ice"], ''The Missing Slate''. Retrieved 21 November 2016</ref> ''Stirring'', ''Kin Poetry Journal'', ''Mad Swirl'', ''Blue Rock Review'' and other places.
'''Timothy Ogene''' is a poet and novelist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timothyogene.com|title=Timothy Ogene|website=timothyogene.com|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref> He is the author of ''[[Descent & Other Poems]]'' and ''[[The Day Ends Like Any Day]]''.<ref>[http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2015/12/08/absent-calls-poems-timothy-ogene "Absent Calls"], ''Numero Cinq''. Retrieved 21 November 2016.</ref>
==Biography==
Born in [[Nigeria]], Timothy has since lived in [[Liberia]], (Germany), the United States and England. His work has appeared in ''Tincture Journal'',<ref>[http://tincture-journal.com/2017/01/07/a-sequence-by-timothy-ogene/ "A Sequence"], ''Tincture Journal''.</ref> ''[[Numero Cinq]]'',<ref>[http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2015/12/08/absent-calls-poems-timothy-ogene/ "Absent Calls"], ''Numero Cinq''.</ref> ''[[One Throne Magazine]]'',<ref>[http://www.onethrone.com/notes-from-a-discarded-memoir "Notes from A Discarded Memoir"], ''One Throne Magazine''.</ref> ''Poetry Quarterly'',<ref>[https://prolificpress.com/bookstore/poetry-quarterly-c-1/poetry-quarterly-wintersummer-2012-p-55.html ''Poetry Quarterly''.]</ref> ''[[Harvard Review]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu/?q=authors/timothy-ogene|title=Timothy Ogene {{!}} Harvard Review Online|website=harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu|access-date=29 March 2017}}</ref> ''Hong Kong Review of Books'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hkrbooks.com/2017/01/25/welcome-to-lagos/|title=Welcome to Lagos|last=hongkongrb|date=25 January 2017|website=HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評|access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> ''Glasgow Review of Books'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2017/03/29/a-troubling-transformation-a-igoni-barretts-blackass/|title=A TROUBLING TRANSFORMATION: A. Igoni Barrett's 'Blackass'|last=Glasgow Review of Books|date=29 March 2017|website=Glasgow Review of Books|access-date=29 March 2017}}</ref> ''Tahoma Literary Review'',<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Tahoma-Literary-Review-1/dp/098382617X?ie=UTF8&keywords=tahoma%20literary&qid=1420073088&ref_=sr_1_2_twi_2&s=books&sr=1-2 "Monologue for Country and Ex-Neighbours"], ''Tahoma Literary Review''. Retrieved 21 November 2016.</ref> ''The Missing Slate'',<ref>[http://themissingslate.com/2013/10/05/a-strand-of-ice/view-all/ "A Strand of Ice"], ''The Missing Slate''. Retrieved 21 November 2016</ref> ''Stirring'', ''Kin Poetry Journal'', ''Mad Swirl'', ''Blue Rock Review'' and other places. He holds a first degree in English and History from [[St. Edward's University]], a [[Master's]] in [[World literature]]s in English from the [[University of Oxford]],<ref>New Perspectives on [[Chinua Achebe]], or the Writer Outside his Writing – [http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/new-perspectives-chinua-achebe-or-writer-outside-his-writing http://bit.ly/2gfqZW3]</ref> and a [[UEA Creative Writing Course|Master's in Creative Writing]] from the [[University of East Anglia]]. He is a [[PhD Candidate]] in English at the [[University of Cambridge]], and was recently a Visiting Research Fellow at [[Brown University]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Faculty of English: Graduate Students|url=https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/graduates/Timothy.Ogene|access-date=2020-10-07|website=www.english.cam.ac.uk}}</ref>

Twice nominated for a [[Pushcart Prize]], he was shortlisted for the 2010 [[Arvon Foundation|Arvon]] International Poetry Competition,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=16900|title=Shortlist for Arvon Competition Announced {{!}} Write Out Loud|website=www.writeoutloud.net|access-date=4 February 2017}}</ref> and his collection, ''Descent & Other Poems'' , was included in the [[Australian Book Review]]'s Books of the Year 2016<ref>[https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2016/188-december-2016-no-387/3706-2016-books-of-the-year 2016 Books of the Year], ''Australian Book Review''.</ref> and was also listed as a ''[[Literary Hub]]'' favourite for 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lithub.com/our-favorite-poetry-collections-of-2017/|title=Our Favourite Collection of 2017|website=Literary Hub}}</ref>

Of his poetry, [[Felicity Plunkett]] writes: "Timothy Ogene’s poems are writings of witness, displacement and beauty. Instead of a home address there are poems as address, at once exquisitely gentle and acute. The sharpness of the poems’ blades—whether literal, like the blades that peel [[Cassava]]s and leave the speaker's arms scarred, or deeper injuries of trauma and loss—sits alongside their subtlety and tenderness. These are poems of deep attentiveness to the smallest encounters, and to the largest questions of love, doubt, solitude and migration. Their crafting reveals Ogene's deep reading, both of poetry and of the landscapes the poems explore. How do poems that bear witness to violence, loss and displacement open so gently to the reader? This paradox is one of many in these wise, important poems. I am reminded of [[Hélène Cixous]]’s description of [[Paul Celan]]’s poetry as ‘writing that speaks of and through disaster such that disaster and desert become author or spring’. Where trees hold ‘time in absent leaves’, these poems mourn roots but refrain from ‘easy paths’, offering, instead, the force and grace of a numinous poetics."<ref>{{Cite book|isbn=978-0997505108|title=Descent & Other Poems|last1=Ogene|first1=Timothy|year=2016}}</ref>

In 2008, Timothy was among those selected to participate in the first [[Jane Goodall]] Global Youth Summit,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/groups/globalyouthsummit/|title=Jane Goodall's Global Youth Summit|website=Flickr|access-date=26 December 2019}}</ref> and in 2009 he was awarded a Dekeyser & Friends Fellowship by the [[Dekeyser&Friends Foundation|Dekeyser & Friends Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dekeyserandfriends.org/museum-project/|title=MUSEUM PROJECT – Dekeyser & Friends|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-03}}</ref>

While living in Liberia, Timothy was a mentor at the Strongheart Fellows Program, "an innovative educational program to help exceptional young people from extremely challenging backgrounds rise above circumstance and excel in our larger shared world."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://strongheartgroup.org/history|title=History|website=Strongheart Group|access-date=26 December 2019}}</ref> He also volunteered part-time teaching literature at Robertsport High School in [[Grand Cape Mount County]].{{fact|date=December 2020}}

== Bibliography ==
'''Poetry'''
* ''Descent & Other Poems,'' Deerbrook Editions, 2016 (finalist, Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/ugandan-poet-juliane-okot-bitek-wins-2017-glenna-luschei-prize-for-100-days/|title=Ugandan Poet Juliane Okot Bitek Wins 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for 100 Days|last=africanpoetrybf|website=African Poetry Book Fund|access-date=27 June 2019}}</ref>
'''Novels'''
*''The Day Ends Like Any Day'', Holland House Books, 2017 (winner, Book of the Year Award – Creative Writing, African Literature Association)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://africanlit.org/creative-writing-book-of-the-year-award/|title=Book of the Year Award – Creative Writing {{!}} African Literature Association|access-date=27 June 2019}}</ref>
*''Seesaw'', [http://swiftpress.com Swift Press], 2021<ref>{{Cite web|title=Seesaw by Timothy Ogene {{!}} Waterstones|url=https://www.waterstones.com/book/seesaw/timothy-ogene/9781800750166|access-date=2020-10-06|website=www.waterstones.com|language=en}}</ref>

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Revision as of 22:49, 23 August 2021

Timothy Ogene
OccupationNovelist, poet
Alma mater
  • St. Edward's University
  • University of East Anglia
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Cambridge

Timothy Ogene is a poet and novelist.[1] He is the author of Descent & Other Poems and The Day Ends Like Any Day.[2]

Biography

Born in Nigeria, Timothy has since lived in Liberia, (Germany), the United States and England. His work has appeared in Tincture Journal,[3] Numero Cinq,[4] One Throne Magazine,[5] Poetry Quarterly,[6] Harvard Review,[7] Hong Kong Review of Books,[8] Glasgow Review of Books,[9] Tahoma Literary Review,[10] The Missing Slate,[11] Stirring, Kin Poetry Journal, Mad Swirl, Blue Rock Review and other places. He holds a first degree in English and History from St. Edward's University, a Master's in World literatures in English from the University of Oxford,[12] and a Master's in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Cambridge, and was recently a Visiting Research Fellow at Brown University.[13]

Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, he was shortlisted for the 2010 Arvon International Poetry Competition,[14] and his collection, Descent & Other Poems , was included in the Australian Book Review's Books of the Year 2016[15] and was also listed as a Literary Hub favourite for 2017.[16]

Of his poetry, Felicity Plunkett writes: "Timothy Ogene’s poems are writings of witness, displacement and beauty. Instead of a home address there are poems as address, at once exquisitely gentle and acute. The sharpness of the poems’ blades—whether literal, like the blades that peel Cassavas and leave the speaker's arms scarred, or deeper injuries of trauma and loss—sits alongside their subtlety and tenderness. These are poems of deep attentiveness to the smallest encounters, and to the largest questions of love, doubt, solitude and migration. Their crafting reveals Ogene's deep reading, both of poetry and of the landscapes the poems explore. How do poems that bear witness to violence, loss and displacement open so gently to the reader? This paradox is one of many in these wise, important poems. I am reminded of Hélène Cixous’s description of Paul Celan’s poetry as ‘writing that speaks of and through disaster such that disaster and desert become author or spring’. Where trees hold ‘time in absent leaves’, these poems mourn roots but refrain from ‘easy paths’, offering, instead, the force and grace of a numinous poetics."[17]

In 2008, Timothy was among those selected to participate in the first Jane Goodall Global Youth Summit,[18] and in 2009 he was awarded a Dekeyser & Friends Fellowship by the Dekeyser & Friends Foundation.[19]

While living in Liberia, Timothy was a mentor at the Strongheart Fellows Program, "an innovative educational program to help exceptional young people from extremely challenging backgrounds rise above circumstance and excel in our larger shared world."[20] He also volunteered part-time teaching literature at Robertsport High School in Grand Cape Mount County.[citation needed]

Bibliography

Poetry

  • Descent & Other Poems, Deerbrook Editions, 2016 (finalist, Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry)[21]

Novels

  • The Day Ends Like Any Day, Holland House Books, 2017 (winner, Book of the Year Award – Creative Writing, African Literature Association)[22]
  • Seesaw, Swift Press, 2021[23]

References

  1. ^ "Timothy Ogene". timothyogene.com. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Absent Calls", Numero Cinq. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  3. ^ "A Sequence", Tincture Journal.
  4. ^ "Absent Calls", Numero Cinq.
  5. ^ "Notes from A Discarded Memoir", One Throne Magazine.
  6. ^ Poetry Quarterly.
  7. ^ "Timothy Ogene | Harvard Review Online". harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  8. ^ hongkongrb (25 January 2017). "Welcome to Lagos". HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
  9. ^ Glasgow Review of Books (29 March 2017). "A TROUBLING TRANSFORMATION: A. Igoni Barrett's 'Blackass'". Glasgow Review of Books. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  10. ^ "Monologue for Country and Ex-Neighbours", Tahoma Literary Review. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  11. ^ "A Strand of Ice", The Missing Slate. Retrieved 21 November 2016
  12. ^ New Perspectives on Chinua Achebe, or the Writer Outside his Writing – http://bit.ly/2gfqZW3
  13. ^ "Faculty of English: Graduate Students". www.english.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  14. ^ "Shortlist for Arvon Competition Announced | Write Out Loud". www.writeoutloud.net. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  15. ^ 2016 Books of the Year, Australian Book Review.
  16. ^ "Our Favourite Collection of 2017". Literary Hub.
  17. ^ Ogene, Timothy (2016). Descent & Other Poems. ISBN 978-0997505108.
  18. ^ "Jane Goodall's Global Youth Summit". Flickr. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  19. ^ "MUSEUM PROJECT – Dekeyser & Friends". Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  20. ^ "History". Strongheart Group. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  21. ^ africanpoetrybf. "Ugandan Poet Juliane Okot Bitek Wins 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for 100 Days". African Poetry Book Fund. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  22. ^ "Book of the Year Award – Creative Writing | African Literature Association". Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  23. ^ "Seesaw by Timothy Ogene | Waterstones". www.waterstones.com. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
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