A Shuttle in the Crypt is a 1972 poetry collection by Wole Soyinka. The book comprises Soyinka's twenty-five month experience at Kaduna prison on a disloyalty offence by the Nigerian military government for his efforts in averting the Nigerian Civil War.

Contents "Phases of Peril" "Four archetypes" "Chimes of Silence" "Procession" "Prisonnettes" "Poems of bread and earth" "Epilogue" References

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