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  The Estuary of Komo

               by Moshe Liba

   A lament for the children of Gabon

  (Cover illustration: a traditional stone sculpture from Gabon)

Moshé Liba is a lecturer, writer, poet and painter. He has published 49 books, textbooks, children’s books, brochures and albums, including 25 books of poetry, in several languages. He has been awarded many honorific titles including Honorary Doctorate, Barone delli Arti, Distinguished International Poet, Honorary President of La Ronde des Poètes du Cameroun. He has also won many different accolades for his work. He contributes to literary, historical and international publications, as well as Yearbooks, and is included in anthologies in various countries. Dr. Liba is Adjunct Professor in European Literatures and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.  

Wellington-based Israeli poet, Moshé Liba, is well-travelled as a celebrated artist and retired diplomat. He draws on a vast range of cultural experiences in many countries to paint images of the past, present and future with acute observation. ‘The Estuary of Komo’ is a book-poem, based on Moshé Liba’s original French version, ‘L’Estuaire’ (published by Multipress Gabon, Libreville , 1996), and following 18 years of life and work in Africa . The poem is written in the best tradition of great African poets like Leopold S. Senghor and Engelbert Mveng. It is a commitment, a protest, a lament for the children of Africa , for the forests of the black continent.  

TITLE               The Estuary of Komo
AUTHOR         Moshe Liba
PUBLISHED    2004
CATEGORY    Poetry
FORMAT         Paperback
EXTENT           A5, 32 pages
ISBN                1-86942-039-X
PRICE              NZ  $5

 “Dr. Liba has had the opportunity to draw on a great range of experiences, traveling the world as a diplomat, but deeply interested, too, in the simple every day experiences of ordinary people he meets along the way……….reaching out, across countries, across continents, across that rugged terrain which we call international relations, and providing, one by one, the images that put a human face on these broader issues…….finding much that is new and interesting that we, who may take them for granted, have overlooked……

I have followed these, literary journeys with considerable interest.”

Dame Fiona Kidman DNZM, OBE

Sample poem

 1

. . . under the sun
of thirty degrees
the sand, white
marks the line
zero, undulating
Equator
rolling
on the blue waves
of the ocean
rolling
to the distant
horizon

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