In “The Constituency of Your Lips”, love goes further than romantic attraction; it becomes a search for truth, an attempt to, as the author himself puts it “interrogate that fragile space where love and leadership intersect — where the personal meets the political.”
THE COUNTRY BREATHES: Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize (EOPP)
The winning poems stood out for their exceptional craft, emotional weight, and their ability to capture the complexities of the human and national experience.
SATIRE AND SEED: THE UNENDING BLOOM OF COLONIALISM | A Review of Tares Oburumu’s ‘Flora’s Love Colony’
The poems are an adventure into the vast world of interracial affairs, producing for their immediacy the obsession with cultural integrity and boundary sensibility. This in itself is not the ultimate denunciation of the interference so addressed; rather, it undergirds the multiple thematic tours from personal to societal concerns.
Shortlist Announced: The Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize (EOPP) 2025
We are delighted to unveil the shortlist for the Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize (EOPP) 2025. Following thorough deliberations by the judging panel from a competitive longlist of submissions, ten outstanding...