BOYS OF SHATTERED DREAMS by Jonathan Otamere Endurance
after Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau’s “For boys who went' For Boys of Shattered Dreams... Their bones fragment on earth's closure Like the punctured walls of Borno — A preposition of dreams...
LUVVIE’S ‘I’M JUDGING YOU’ IS A HUMOROUS GUIDE AGAINST IGNORANCE — a review by Shoola Oyindamola
TITLE: I’M JUDGING YOU AUTHOR: LUVVIE AJAYI GENRE: Op-Ed NUMBER OF PAGES: 256 PUBLISHER: Holt Paperbacks DATE OF PUBLICATION: September 13, 2016 ISBN: 978-1627796064 REVIEWER: Shoola Oyindamola If more books...
‘FUNNY MEN CANNOT BE TRUSTED’ IS ANOTHER GAME CHANGER FROM TOLU AKINYEMI — a review by Shoola Oyindamola
TITLE: FUNNY MEN CANNOT BE TRUSTED AUTHOR: TOLU AKINYEMI GENRE: Poetry NUMBER OF PAGES: 159 PUBLISHER: Heart of Words UK DATE OF PUBLICATION: February 9, 2017 ISBN: 978-9785359763 REVIEWER: Shoola...
PYROKARDIA’S ‘BROKEN WISHBONES & EMPTY SPACES’ UNRAVELS THE MELANCHOLY IN LOVE — a review by Shoola Oyindamola
TITLE: BROKEN WISHBONES & EMPTY SPACES AUTHOR: PYROKARDIA (OGUNFOWODU OLUFEMI) GENRE: Poetry NUMBER OF PAGES: PUBLISHER: CreateSpace DATE OF PUBLICATION: January 22, 2017 ISBN: 978-1539668152 REVIEWER: Shoola Oyindamola It is...
RESONANCE by Efe Ogufere
Your eyes wear mascara lines Open them and free the lashes Unclad, my emotions lay bare Calm my athletic pulse A butterfly sheds its cocoon No tears wanderlust Cold winds...
BIG BRIGITTE, PRICELESS POIRSON by Ebi Robert
Brigitte, the African Abcoulomb Igniting the darling design of our Acanthi Giant voice in my soundless Beginning Bigger for any write-hand adverb Raining rain on the raining tour Icing on...
IN ‘QUESTIONS FOR ADA’, UMEBINYUO RECLAIMS WOMANHOOD WITH PRIDE — a review by Shoola Oyindamola
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,...
READER'S BILL OF RIGHTS by Daniel Pennac
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: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017 [FEBRUARY]
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...
ON BENDED KNEES by Stanley Egeonu
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…...