1. Enigmata. You hated fruitless journeys abroad, yet Aligned into a wasted generation at home: Preferred Kafka quaffed...
1 Japa is to slough off the skin To learn to swim upstream Mouth open and panting like fish Because...
In the heart of Africa, my mother, she be movin’ and groovin’ with them threads, Craftin’ a masterpiece of strength...
The literary hub of Montreal once again opens its arms to the world’s poets as the prestigious Montreal International Poetry...
Who was Abami Eda? You mean Fela? Oh, that strange being! Funny you should say so, Abami Eda means strange...
With the current state of the world, it could be difficult to process all the things that make the news,...
English PEN, in collaboration with Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the Estate of Seamus Heaney, has announced the launch of...
World Poetry Day 2024 witnessed a spectacular celebration of words, culture and creativity as lNigerian poets and their counterparts from...
A good place to start would be Bisola Bada’s i am a body of water (Konya Shamsrumi, 2023). Like Ky’s artwork, the poems in Bada’s slim collection are trained on women’s bodies and the absence of the vocabulary of shame is immediately noticeable. Take for instance, these lines in dissimilar bodies:
Greatness interrupted A promising future truncated Unbeknownst, she boarded Charon’s ferry Hijacked by fiends in search of quarry Hippocrates was...
From the onset, Nomad, the Nigeria Prize for Literature-winning collection of over sixty poems by Romeo Oriogun, shows something striking,...
Dear teacher and pagan, With prim fronds I thee wed. Is there palmwine in Paradise? The homy spirit...
