TITLE: SURVIVING CORONATION STREET: A CORONAVIRUS SURVIVOR’S MEMOIR
AUTHOR: BRIGITTE POIRSON
GENRE: PROSE (NON-FICTION)
NO. OF PAGES: 42
YEAR: 2020
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It’s the arts we lean on. How else do we confront life’s vicissitudes if not through storytelling, poetry, dance, music, and all forms of creative imaginations? This is why even in the time of a pandemic such as this, we still tell our stories. It’s our own way of facing death with laughter on our faces. Or saying no to extinction. .
— Ifeanyichukwu Peter Eze (in the foreword )
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Brigitte Poirson is a French poet, editor, educationist and literay promoter who has over the years worked assiduously to support of African poetry in various capacities. Brigitte has taught languages in high schools and universities in France and England. She has authored eight books: La Nouvelle Vouivre, 1977; Étamine des Jours, 1978; In Worms and Against All, 1979; The Passion Fruits, 1984; Poems from the Free County, 1995; The Ten-Year-War, 1996; Jurassically Yours, 2009; Clair – Obscur Encounters: A Poetic Duet Leading to Self – Discovery, 2015 (co-authored with T. Haynes), and edited or co-edited several others. She is a patron of the Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC) and the Albert Jungers Poetry Prize (AJPP) two of the most prestigious literay prizes rewarding young poetry talents in Nigeria.