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:
Every war bequeaths on us a new vocabulary Of death and suffering and carnage We learn of new words and...
Five more excerpts from the forthcoming Augusta’s Poodle (Poems of Childhood) by Ogaga Ifowodo XVIII Suddenly, the wizened old poet...
1. Enigmata. You hated fruitless journeys abroad, yet Aligned into a wasted generation at home: Preferred Kafka quaffed...
When I write poetry, I try to draw from a well deep within my soul, sometimes, this well dries up...
1 Japa is to slough off the skin To learn to swim upstream Mouth open and panting like fish Because...
English PEN, in collaboration with Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the Estate of Seamus Heaney, has announced the launch of...
Gates transcend physical representations. This is not surprising, considering how gates can double as milestones for beginnings, entry, growth, exit,...
Five excerpts from the forthcoming Augusta’s Poodle (Poems of Childhood) by Ogaga Ifowodo XI But how much do I...
Dear teacher and pagan, With prim fronds I thee wed. Is there palmwine in Paradise? The homy spirit...
Providus Bank, in collaboration with the Culture Advocates Caucus (CAC) and under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka,...
