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At a literary event held in Venice, Italy, in March 2008, poet and novelist Chris Abani received a fairly unremarkable request from the floor: to read from his poetry. As the writer did not have any of his collections of poems at hand, he instead shared with the audience a short chapter of his novella, Becoming Abigail (2006b). Before doing so, he offered the following comment: ‘It’s the same [as poetry]. I’ll read so you can hear the music’ (Abani, 2008).
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Tunca, D. (2014). ‘Bi-textual’ Poetics. In: Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264411_6
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