How difficult was it getting a publisher, considering the general impression that poetry doesn’t sell?
JV: You know impressions have a way of getting around as norm. Anyway, it just seemed like the right time and everything fell into place. That’s the explanation that seems plausible. But then again, you’ll have to understand that my publisher, Ayo Arigbabu, was familiar with my writing. We’ve known each other since we were in the university. He was in UNILAG, when he was president of PEN circle, and I was in LASU running a writing group. We shared similar ideas on literature and the arts. So, if you call that luck, then it is. When DADA Books came to be, he asked that I send him the manuscript I was working on. He was excited and wanted to publish it. What made DADA Books appealing were the timeliness and the passion he projected and that surpassed the proposition of him publishing my book. Ayo Arigbabu has some rather interesting vision for publishing in Nigeria. He is conscientious and forward-looking and I really do wish him the very best. But then again, having been in the art circ
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