← Christopher OkigboHeavensgateby Christopher OkigboMystical poetry drawing on Christian and African spiritual traditionsFind on Amazon↗About the authorChristopher OkigboNigerian poet who died fighting for Biafra, leaving a small but luminous body of modernist verse. Labyrinths is his most celebrated collection; his poetry synthesized Igbo oral tradition with Western modernism.More by Christopher OkigboLimitsExperimental poetry exploring spiritual boundaries and transcendence→Silences→Lament of the Drums→LabyrinthsComplex poetry navigating mythic and personal labyrinths→Path of ThunderLate poetry exploring loss and political violence in Nigeria→Distances→