A GREAT LOSS by Anyanwu Sixtus
My heart is at pieces Hearing of your early demise Shocking my heart string in my dirge You shouldn't have gone this way Leaving us the upcoming poet With no...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘IMOMOTIMI’ – THE GABRIEL OKARA ANTHOLOGY
This is a call for submissions for ‘Imomotimi’, an anthology of poems and essays in honour of the late Nigerian poet Pa Gabriel Imomotimi Okara to be published by Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publishers in April 2019. ‘Imomotimi’, which is Pa Okara’s middle name, is an Ijaw word meaning ‘stay with me’.
EZENWA-OHAETO, DIPE JOLAADE & NOME PATRICK WIN ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2018
Multiple award-winning writer Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto is the winner of the 7th edition of the by Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publisher’s annual Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize (EOPP) 2018. The winning poem...
‘TIMELESS, MASTERFULLY WRITTEN’: PHUNSO ORIS’ FOREWORD TO ‘A BOY’S TEARS ON EARTH’S TONGUE’
A Boy’s Tears on Earth’s Tongue is a collection of timeless poems, masterfully written by a mind that is in alignment with existential and essentialist values of human experience
EZENWA-OHAETO REACHED A HEIGHT OF HONESTY, PASSION AND VULNERABILITY IN ‘I BURN INCENSES BEFORE SLEEP’: A REVIEW OF EOPP 2018 WINNING POEM BY OYINDAMOLA SHOOLA
For me, in ‘I Burn Incenses before Sleep’, Ezenwa-Ohaeto reached a height of honesty, passion and vulnerability, one that flawlessly implements its didactics and has the power to affect people, things and systems that we hold on to religiously.
I WAN BE LECTURER (A PIDGIN POEM BY ARUM MALACHY)
I neva see lecturer wey no dey knack fine fine girls wey dey for him class
LOVE (a poem by El Sane Ken Silencer)
Love is peace
When you have the heart
Love is maltreator
When you lost the liver–
OYEDOKUN IBUKUN STEPHEN WINS BPPC FEBRUARY 2019
Oyedokun Ibukun Stephen is the winner of the February 2019 edition of the monthly Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC) which was themed 'THE FEAT'. Oyedokun, aka PENAWD, is a poet,...
TALES BY NIGHT (a poem by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche)
Stare into the night, so you’d see the moon, swimming thru buoyant ocean of clouds. Stare, so you’d perceive from its trail, a desert of astounding grandeur
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST [MARCH 2019] ‘RHYME FOR CHILDREN’
All Nigerian poets are invited to enter their poems for the March 2019 edition of the monthly BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC). This month’s theme is: 'RHYME FOR CHILDREN'. A child is not a vase to...