Month: <span>February 2017</span>

BOOK REVIEWS

IN ‘QUESTIONS FOR ADA’, UMEBINYUO RECLAIMS WOMANHOOD WITH PRIDE — a review by Shoola Oyindamola

Oyindamola ShoolaFebruary 22, 2017August 3, 2020

TITLE: QUESTIONS FOR ADA AUTHOR: IJEOMA UMEBINYUO GENRE: Poetry NUMBER OF PAGES: 248 PUBLISHER: CreateSpace DATE OF PUBLICATION: August 7, 2015 ISBN: 978-1505984347 REVIEWER: Shoola Oyindamola In QUESTIONS FOR ADA,...

ESSAYS

READER'S BILL OF RIGHTS by Daniel Pennac

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 12, 2017August 3, 2020

As a reader, you have rights presented as READER'S BILL OF RIGHTS by French writer Daniel Pennac, recipient of the Prix Renaudot (for his essay Chagrin d'école): The right to not read The...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017 [FEBRUARY]

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 9, 2017August 3, 2020

Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) is now receiving entries for the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON III, 2017 (February edition). Poets from Nigeria, Africa and all over the world...

POETRY

ON BENDED KNEES by Stanley Egeonu

Stanley EgeonuFebruary 7, 2017August 21, 2017

When your strength is exhausted And your spirit is strapped of vigour… When you can no longer stand the 'shaking' And the horrors of life cause you to suffer bruxism…...

BOOK REVIEWS

BEYOND DIDACTICISM: A REVIEW OF MICHEAL ACE’S SERMON FROM A STAMMERER

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 4, 2017August 3, 2020

TITLE: SERMON FROM A STAMMERER AUTHOR: MICHEAL ACE GENRE: POETRY NUMBER OF PAGES: 32 PUBLISHER: ACEWORLD DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2016 REVIEWER: AYOOLA GOODNESS One of the tenets of literature is...

POETRY

ONE WEDNESDAY EVENING by Olawale Ibiyemi

Olawale IbiyemiFebruary 2, 2017July 15, 2017

the preacher spat into our ears his very Truth Now our ears sting, stink my ears sting; He has started a riot of tongues of tongues and has killed the...

POETRY

FOOLERY by Joshua Levites

Joshua LevitesFebruary 2, 2017July 16, 2017

The way you look The way you talk Your dainty smiles Everything about you; The reason my saneness pends for moments of craze. The gracefullness of your beauty Has almost...