Ultimately, the poems of Jazz Negotiations celebrate music, sound, and the possibilities of language as they entwine intimately with every corner of existence. To read these poems is to appreciate the ingenuity of the collection’s structure, the depth and wisdom interlaced with melodic exhortation, the effortless movement from reverence to activism to observation to philosophy, so that one is ferried across borders: from protest to testimony, from recital to homage, from dirge to rapture.
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Granting a backstage interview to The Lagos Review, the artist summed up his musical philosophy thus: “I like to have an open approach to my music, and I like to demystify flamenco.”
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Over 3 days, they will learn how to write compelling and insightful music, book and movie reviews as well as essays. Our facilitators would be led by Ellah Allfrey Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL, Editor-at-large at Canongate, former deputy editor at Granta, past Booker prize and International Dublin Literary award judge and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize and thelagosreview.ng advisory board.
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