Year: <span>2017</span>

BOOK REVIEWS

REVIEW: EGBOKARE’S ‘DAZZLING MIRAGE’ SUCCESSFULLY USED LITERATURE AS A VEHICLE TO DISCUSS GENOTYPE COMPATIBILITY AND SICKLE CELL ANEMIA

Eugene YakubuOctober 13, 2017August 3, 2020

Title: Dazzling Mirage Author: Olayinka Abimbola Egbokhare Genre: Prose Fiction Number of Pages: 159 Publishers: Words Rhymes & Rhythm Year of Publication: 2017 ISBN: 978-978-961-653-4 Reviewer: Eugene Yakubu Contemporary literary...

POETRY

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko

Dominic Ayegba OkolikoOctober 9, 2017October 19, 2017

Come, let’s follow the yellow in the rainbow Mind not the tremor but keep firm your grip Even if the clouds were to shake As if their wears were to...

POETRY

AGBEKE by Tosin Rock

Tosin RockOctober 2, 2017

Agbeke, thinking of past times i cannot but venerate you, my faithful friend you have shared with me memories of times good and of bad times every moment with you...

POETRY

WHAT IS LIFE by Omotayo Awoyemi

Omotayo AwoyemiSeptember 29, 2017October 2, 2017

What is life? ***** Clench your fists, Tightly, Let the air within boil, Love the warmth Wrapped up in your palms, Cherish it! Till your knuckles reel in pain, That...

ESSAYS

WRITERS AS GIFTED GIFTS

Benibo EdenSeptember 28, 2017August 3, 2020

The life of a writer is somewhat solitary, not necessarily because it is not possible for a writer to be an extrovert but because the art of writing is deeper...

POETRY

SINCERITY by Maxwell Onyemaechi Opia-Enwemuche

Maxwell Onyemaechi Opia-EnwemucheSeptember 27, 2017October 19, 2017

have you ever been sincere? for sincerity pampers perseverance and perseverance breeds a joyful heart a joyful heart speaks about love have you ever been abused? have you ever been...

POETRY

BOY by Omotayo Awoyemi

Omotayo AwoyemiSeptember 26, 2017

Poor boy, Drowned in himself; In a lake of something familiar, he Drowned in hormones. A few strings to his thing, and Nightlong spell of Venus, He's fit to swim,...

POETRY

MARAUDERS by Christopher Labesa

christopher labesaSeptember 26, 2017September 26, 2017

...there is sadness in the face of the moon. Boom boom! Marauders at the door. Boom boom! Gory chunks on the floor. Marauders; those marauders;disgruntled fragments of the Sahara storms;...

ESSAYS

OF POETS AND CRITICS: SEUN LARI-WILLIAMS VS. THE ERINYES OF NIGERIAN POETRY

Words Rhymes & RhythmSeptember 26, 2017August 3, 2020

When John Greenleaf Whittier (then already an established poet) first got a hold of Walt Whitman’s poems, he dismissed them as “loose, lurid, and impious,” and summarily threw his gift-copy...

NEWS

OLAYINKA ABIMBOLA EGBOKHARE’S ‘DAZZLING MIRAGE’ IS OUT

Words Rhymes & RhythmSeptember 25, 2017April 18, 2018

We are proud to unveil 'DAZZLING MIRAGE', a novel by OLAYINKA ABIMBOLA EGBOKHARE. Dazzling Mirage is a well narrated story of a sickle-cell patient, Funmi, whose only need was to...

Year: 2017

REVIEW: EGBOKARE’S ‘DAZZLING MIRAGE’ SUCCESSFULLY USED LITERATURE AS A VEHICLE TO DISCUSS GENOTYPE COMPATIBILITY AND SICKLE CELL ANEMIA

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko

AGBEKE by Tosin Rock

WHAT IS LIFE by Omotayo Awoyemi

WRITERS AS GIFTED GIFTS

SINCERITY by Maxwell Onyemaechi Opia-Enwemuche

BOY by Omotayo Awoyemi

MARAUDERS by Christopher Labesa

OF POETS AND CRITICS: SEUN LARI-WILLIAMS VS. THE ERINYES OF NIGERIAN POETRY

OLAYINKA ABIMBOLA EGBOKHARE’S ‘DAZZLING MIRAGE’ IS OUT

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