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In December 2002, Azuonye's book of poetry Testaments Of Thunder--Poems of Crisis and War was published by Nsibidi Africana Publishers as #1 in the Nsibidi Library of Nsukka Poets of which he is the Series Editor. Featuring mostly poems written between 1966 and 1972, Testaments Of Thunder serves up a totally devastating body of work that rips out the true horrors of the Nigeria-Biafra war our of their several unmarked tombs.

Peter Thomas comments that "His poetry is as eloquent as it is penetrating" and the editors of The Anthill Anthology (University Of Nigeria Nsukka) declare that "Chukwuma Azuonye has written some of the most devastating poems on the civil war which initiated him and his generation into premature manhood and left a bitter taste on their tongue." That bitterness and the blood his eyes shed at the horrors he witnessed just prior to and during the Biafra-Nigerian civil war energised by the poetic environment created by Christopher Okigbo crystallized into impeccable poetry to which he gave his unique voice, inventive genius and experimentation which place him firmly in the charts of the history of that pre/post-war poetic era that Emmanuel Obiechina refers to in Language and Theme: Essays in African Literature wherein he states, "Okigbo has influenced not one but two generations of poets, both of which have made Nsukka their habitat, the generation of Wonodi and Ndu, and the civil-war/post-civil-war generations of Obiora Udechukwu, the late Kevin Echeruo, Chukwuma Azuonye, Onuora Enekwe, Akomaye Oko, among others."