WRITING POETRY: SHITTU FOWORA’S SPIDER APPROACH
So you want to be a good poet? “The art of poetry is the art of speaking metaphorically, and of making linguistic objects that are themselves metaphors are as well...
THE THING WITH INTERPRETERS (an essay by Oludipe Oyin Samuel)
[caption id="attachment_6568" align="aligncenter" width="453"] #WRRPoetryVerseSurgery[/caption] Many things are allowed in the ‘most contemporary’ Nigerian literature, even psycho-imaginative meningioma; proclaim the very art of purposeful nationalist writing— countryside lyricals, activist poems...
HOW TO ESCAPE THE FIRE by Aire Joshua Omotayo
hold your waist in the middle of the wind, gulp the breeze till it reaches the brim then wait and say your name to the face of the debris, let...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017 [AUGUST] ‘LIFE IS FOR THE LIVING’
Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) is now receiving entries for the August edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON III, 2017. Poets from Nigeria, Africa and all over...
BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017: UI’s AIRE OMOTAYO WINS JULY BPPC TROPHY
The July 2017 edition of the monthly Words Rhymes & Rhythm backed BRIGITTE POIRSON has been won by Aire Joshua Omotayo, the second winner from Edo state in as many...
STORYTELLING QUOTES FROM GREAT WRITERS by Lucy Adams
Literature is a huge repository of spiritual and moral values. It would seem that all of us have long been familiar with works of the best writers like Leo Tolstoy,...
GREEN GRIOTS: TELLING REFRESHINGLY INDIGENOUS STORIES
Words Rhymes & Rhythm is pleased to announce the GREEN GRIOT project, an innovative drive to tell the Nigeria story and at the same time give (young) Nigerian fiction writers...
LAMENTATION by Moses Oluwatobi Adebayo
Not the dead or lost, I revile That I lament and mourn sore; Neither regret him gone to exile, This sun I shall see no more; Do I cry for...
SAMIRA SANUSI’S ‘I WROTE THIS FOR YOU’ IS A TRUE PATH TO SELF-APPRECIATION, MOTIVATION
TITLE: I WROTE THIS FOR YOU AUTHOR: SAMIRA HARUNA SANUSI GENRE: Poetry/Quotes NUMBER OF PAGES: 60 PUBLISHER: WORDS RHYMES & RHYTHM PUBLISHERS DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2017 ISBN: 978-978-958-504-5 REVIEWER: NANA SULE...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017 [JULY] ‘THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT’
Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) is now receiving entries for the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON III, 2017 (July edition). Poets from Nigeria, Africa and all over the world...