Poet
1965–2022
A journalist in Freetown who witnessed and wrote about the ten-year war, which shaped most of his poetry. He later lectured at Fourah Bay College, led the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation as Director General and founded the Sierra Leone Writers Forum. He published more than twenty books.
Source ↗Books
We don't sell them: we only point to where to borrow or buy them.
The Lonely Traveller
Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell
Sierra Leonean Writers Series
Hills of Temper
Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell
Drumbeats of War
Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell
2004
My Immigrant Blood
Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell
A Little After Dawn
Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell
Manscape in the Sierra: New and Collected Poems 1991–2011
Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell
Sierra Leonean Writers Series
Deathmask: Collected Poems
Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell
2020
Other poems
Their words are held back until we have permission to print them, or until we've found the whole poem.
The Dining Table
Manscape in the Sierra; set for the West African school certificate (WAEC) Literature exam
When the Clouds Become Too Thick
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗Defining Revolution in My Country
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗We No Longer Write Poems in Camera
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗Of Windows and Shadows
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗Rejuvenate me
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗Curse God and Die
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗Elegy
Sierra Leone Web (sierra-leone.org)
Read it where it's published ↗Are you Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell, or family?
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