World Poetry Day 2024 witnessed a spectacular celebration of words, culture and creativity as lNigerian poets and their counterparts from...
1. Enigmata. You hated fruitless journeys abroad, yet Aligned into a wasted generation at home: Preferred Kafka quaffed...
With the current state of the world, it could be difficult to process all the things that make the news,...
Five excerpts from the forthcoming Augusta’s Poodle (Poems of Childhood) by Ogaga Ifowodo XI But how much do I...
English PEN, in collaboration with Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the Estate of Seamus Heaney, has announced the launch of...
From the onset, Nomad, the Nigeria Prize for Literature-winning collection of over sixty poems by Romeo Oriogun, shows something striking,...
Five more excerpts from the forthcoming Augusta’s Poodle (Poems of Childhood) by Ogaga Ifowodo XVIII Suddenly, the wizened old poet...
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:
When the Almighty decided to show off,
he gave me an eternal gift etched
in bespectacled gaze and verdant beards.
In the heart of Africa, my mother, she be movin’ and groovin’ with them threads, Craftin’ a masterpiece of strength...
When I write poetry, I try to draw from a well deep within my soul, sometimes, this well dries up...
Dear teacher and pagan, With prim fronds I thee wed. Is there palmwine in Paradise? The homy spirit...
