Corollary is a wildly ambitious collection of poems by young Nigerian poet, Anthony Ogbonnaya Chukwu. He retells the history of our cosmos and our species, translating the scientific knowledge of the physical into the personal and metaphysical language of poetry and religion.

Chukwu explores and celebrates the contradiction of our continuing primitiveness and our grandiose learning: "... we brought/the moon to our soles..."; the hubris of our ambitions and our ultimate fate: "How fascinating it will be that those who/were champions here... melted by the rays of the light"; the connection of our individuality with the enormousness of space: "When light was/created early/today,it did not find its way hard/in locating me".

Chukwu examines his world unflinchingly - "They burnt a young woman to a cinder/in Nigeria for allegedly crossing their red lines..." - but with enormous sympathy and quiet humour as his poems progress from the creation of our world to the appearance of our species. The final piece, a prose poem, uses the image of a fisherman lost in a storm to encapsulate our destiny. "This is how the

gathering is made to think about the present: the man, and what has happened".