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Poetry
The Forward Prizes for Poetry has announced their 2025 shortlists, celebrating exceptional poetic talent across…
Akeem Lasisi has once again brought his artistry to the forefront, collaborating with Edaoto for…
Alex Pausides’ poem was poignant and evocative – “When I am silent, it is not that words are lacking” while Edelmis Anocento confeɔronted change and viccissitudes with “I build my house with autumn leaves/From last year’s death gasp.”
Providus Bank, in collaboration with the Culture Advocates Caucus (CAC) and under the guidance of…
When the Almighty decided to show off,
he gave me an eternal gift etched
in bespectacled gaze and verdant beards.
1. Enigmata. You hated fruitless journeys abroad, yet Aligned into a wasted generation at…
English PEN, in collaboration with Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the Estate of Seamus Heaney,…
World Poetry Day 2024 witnessed a spectacular celebration of words, culture and creativity as lNigerian…
In the heart of Africa, my mother, she be movin’ and groovin’ with them threads,…
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: