Author: <span>Words Rhymes & Rhythm</span>

CALL FOR ENTRIES: ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE (EOPP 2017)

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 29, 2017August 3, 2020

Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR Ltd.), in collaboration with Something for Everybody Ventures (SFEV), hereby announces the call for entries for the Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Priaze (EOPP) 2017. Nigerian Poets and...

NEWS

BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017: UNN’S UDOKAMMA WILFRED WINS BPPC SEPTEMBER

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 29, 2017October 29, 2017

Udokamma Ben Wilfred is the winner of the September edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) 2017 themed: ‘WHAT LIES BEYOND THE SILENT NIGHT’. Wilfred, a student of Economics...

BOOK REVIEWS

A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON’S DEVIL’S PAWN (AN UNPUBLISHED PROSE FICTION)

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 29, 2017July 23, 2022

The novel [Devil’s Pawn] evinces excellence in its precise and moving descriptive adequacy. And there is no doubt that the subject matter of revenge it treats is reminiscent of known literary traditions in English, Spanish, and African literary traditions.

WRITING TIPS

WRITING POETRY: 22 2S BREAKDOWN

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 22, 2017August 3, 2020

The poem, 22 2s was inspired by a song by one of the greatest rappers of all time; Jay-Z. In his debut album, Reasonable Doubt, there’s a song by...

POETRY

FEET OF KNIVES by Michael Achile Umameh

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 20, 2017October 20, 2017

When the drab drum of winter dies of the weight of warmth spring’s dewy fingers; feet full of knives; icicles rising and descending a cold caress on an erect skeleton...

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DEDICATION MUST MEET PASSION: An Introduction to Creative Writing by Eketi Ette

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 19, 2017May 3, 2021

No one can ever become a writer by doing nothing, except wish to be one. To be a writer, you must pick up a pen, paper or laptop, and begin to write.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

GREEN AUTHOR PRIZE (GAP) 2017: CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 15, 2017August 3, 2020

Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publishers Ltd. is pleased to announce a call for entries for the 3rd edition of the Green Author Prize (GAP 2017) for young unpublished Nigerian writers under...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

NOMINATE A TEACHER FOR THE WRR NIGERIAN TEACHERS AWARD 2017

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 14, 2017August 3, 2020

Words Rhymes & Rhythm is calling for nominations for the 2017 WRR NIGERIAN TEACHERS AWARD (WRR-NTA) to mark the WORLD TEACHERS’ DAY 2017 ― which was celebrated worldwide on Thursday, October...

NEWS

WRR CONGRATULATES IKEOGU IKE, WINNER NLNG LITERATURE PRIZE 2017

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 14, 2017October 14, 2017

Congratulations Ike Ikeogu for winning the 2017 Liquefied Natural Gas Limited Nigerian Prize for Literature! "I worked on it for 27 years...I thought of writing a poem and soon had...

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...

Author: Words Rhymes & Rhythm