Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty

Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty is a Ghanaian poet and writer.

Life and career

Adali-Mortty was born on 16 June 1916. In 1958, he joined the advisory committee of the international literary journal Black Orpheus.
Adali-Mortty was a contributor to the 1958 anthology Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955–57, edited by Henry Swanzy, and contributed both poetry and political commentary to the Legon Observer: for example, "A Spent Scare" was written in response to the coup that ended Nkrumah's rule.

Works

"Ewe Poetry", Black Orpheus, No. 4, 36-45
"The Spent Scare", The Legon Observer, 2:5, pp. 21–2Messages: Poems from Ghana, Heinemann, 1971. African Writers Series 42
"Change of Government to the Spoils System Again?", The Legon Observer 9: 4
'Reply to Kwabena Manu's Rejoinder to "Change of Government to the Spoils System Again?"', The Legon Observer, 9:6, p. 166