BENUE BESIEGED by Victor Igiri
Are we humans or Animals? Maybe both, but I may choose the latter for with drought eyes swollen from a marathon tears I wear, and thorned a flesh, can you...
REVIEW: UGBOMA’S ECHOES OF MERCY IS ‘TOLERANT, SURE TO ENCHANT ANY READER’
TITLE: ECHOES OF MERCY AUTHOR: IFEOMA IRENE UGBOMA GENRE: PROSE FICTION NUMBER OF PAGES: 132 PUBLISHERS: WORDS RHYMES & RHYTHM DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2017 ISBN: 978-978-963-712-6 REVIEWER: EUGENE YAKUBU Echoes...
FORGIVE AND FORGET by El Sane Ken Silencer
They say crying is good For the heart, but... This is why I swallow pains To remain a man: Mother told me evenly I want to forgive, I should not...
GARRI FOR BREAKFAST: SEUN LARI-WILLIAMS IS ENTIRELY “A NIGERIAN” IN HIS POETRY
TITLE: GARRI FOR BREAKFAST AUTHOR: SEUN LARI-WILLIAMS GENRE: POETRY NUMBER OF PAGES: 147 PUBLISHERS: WORDS RHYMES & RHYTHM YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2017 ISBN: NIL REVIEWER: OYINDAMOLA SHOOLA Seun Lari-Williams is...
YOU DON’T NEED SADNESS TO WRITE GOOD POEMS: A NOTE BY ADEBAYO KOLAWOLE SAMUEL
This idea that the best pieces of poetry always come from sadness or brokenness or some inner chaos isn't true at all. Because of this wrong ideology, many intentionally put...
LOOK by Ewuola Damilola Michael
Look, I'm calm, I'm not armed But I have a voice –a very faint voice But please hear me out before I pass out. Look, look again, I am bleeding...
BEYOND THE SHORES by Okeke Chukwudi
2017 was a year of clarity A year of surprises Strangers became friends Friends became family A year of memories A year of wonder We learnt to take our first...
REVIEW: POPOOLA’S ‘THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE & HATE’ HOLDS SUBTLE BUT MAJESTIC MEANINGS
TITLE: THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE & HATE AUTHOR: DAMILOLA POPOOLA GENRE: POETRY PAGES: 186 PAGES PUBLISHER: CREATESPACE DATE OF PUBLICATION: NOVEMBER 22, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1979108065 REVIEWER: SHOOLA OYINDAMOLA Damilola Popoola...
WRR GREEN AUTHOR PRIZE 2017: 9 NIGERIAN WRITERS WIN PUBLISHING CONTRACTS
Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publisher’s Limited is pleased to announce the winners of the Green Author Prize (GAP 2017) for young unpublished Nigerian writers. The winners are Aremu Adams Adebisi, Akor...
THE POET AND HIS POEM: POETRY AS A SLICE OF LIFE
Poetry is a slice of life. If poetry is a slice of life? Whose life? I have noticed of recent that my poem are increasingly being mistaken as autobiographical. People...