THE BOIL by Agele Ayo
My friend looked at me in the day And said to me “Hey! Your face decays Because you grant delay” I behaved as if I drank liqueur Looking at my...
LET’S WRITE A ‘SWAP QUATRAIN’
The Swap quatrain is a form of poetry created by Lorraine M. Kanter within the poem, each stanza must contain a quatrain — four lines stanza, where the first...
ALBERT JUNGERS POETRY PRIZE 2016: SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED!
Words Rhymes & Rhythm Ltd. is pleased to announce the shortlist for the ALBERT JUNGERS POETRY PRIZE (AJPP) 2016. The prize, which is in its 3rd year, is an annual...
AND NIGERIA BEGAT BIAFRA by Eziudo Michael Nwachukwu
With this stetho I hear her cry, with these eyes I see her kicks, her mother cries in labour, her birth is imminent who can hold it back? And the...
‘SO LONG A LETTER’ SHOWS AFRICAN WOMEN DON’T NEED THE ‘FEMINIST’ TAG TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THEM — a review by Shoola Oyindamola
TITLE: SO LONG A LETTER AUTHOR: MARIAMA BA TRANSLATOR: MODUPE BODE-THOMAS GENRE: Prose NUMBER OF PAGES: 96 PUBLISHER: Waveland Press, Inc. DATE OF PUBLICATION: May 21, 2012 (1st Edition) ISBN:...
PYROKARDIA’S ‘A BEAUTIFUL MESS’ IS FILLED WITH GENUINE HUMAN EMOTIONS — a review by Shoola Oyindamola
TITLE: A BEAUTIFUL MESS AUTHOR: PYROKARDIA (Ogunfowodu Obafemi) GENRE: Poetry NUMBER OF PAGES: 140 PUBLISHER: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform DATE OF PUBLICATION: August 28, 2016 ISBN: 978-1534749184 REVIEWER: Shoola Oyindamola...
AFRICAN BEAUT by Ken Mamman
Beauty is essential in the eyes Of the beholder Look how gorgeous you are You red flawing top Looking like an angel sent To quench my manly thirst A real...
ODIA OFEIMUN’S ‘THE POET LIED’ IS FOREVER RELEVANT — a review by Shoola Oyindamola
TITLE: THE POET LIED AUTHOR: ODIA OFEIMUN GENRE: Poetry NUMBER OF PAGES: 110 PUBLISHER: Longman Group Limited UK DATE OF PUBLICATION: 1980 ISBN: 978-978-48735-3-6 REVIEWER: Shoola Oyindamola [caption id="attachment_4337" align="alignleft"...
THATS by Oluwaseun Shedrack Akodu
That that will go Money that will go. That that will go Friends that will go. That that will go Attires that will go. That that will go Positions that...