By Hope Eghagha
It is within the context of a poignant, profound and perhaps arcane ritual imagination that we encounter John Pepper Clark in his literary world as evidenced by the evocative power of his primal poetic and dramatic compositions.
Professor JP Clark
Especially so are some of the early works such as Song of
a Goat through Ozidi, the ‘middle’ The Boat, The Return Home, Full Circle,
Casualties and the later Remains of a Tide.
His only known work of prose the semi-autobiographical and bitingly sarcastic America their America, at once immediate in content and prophetic in thematic concern exists outside this ontology of ritual and the mythic imagination.
