I said I know what love is
I saw how you undo your pain
& sorround your broken heart with roses
Luscious, beautiful, poignant!
SUBLIME LIVES: A BOOK REVIEW OF PROFESSOR EMEKA ANIAGOLU’S A TALE OF TWO GIANTS: CHINUA ACHEBE & WOLE SOYINKA by Kirsten C. Okenwa
A Tale of Two Giants by Professor Emeka Aniagolu is a thorough, stimulating and fascinating comparative study, grounded in historico-socio-political contextual analysis of the careers, creative, autobiographical as well as scholarly and polemical works of Africa’s two literary giants: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka.
A GIFT TO ART (a poem by Reginald C. Ofodile)
The artists in despair I urge to view
the current deadlock as a heaven-sent boon,
as hustle, parties, trysts, we must eschew,
for focused work, the times are opportune.
‘NATURE IS INJURED’ & ‘WHEN THEY ASK ME HOW I SURVIVED’ (two poems by Adeyeye James Oluwatobi)
each time darkness grabbed me by my wears I gave it to her & ran away naked…
I have learned to hide my grief grief inside lyrics of beautiful voices
WHO IS TO BLAME FOR A BADLY PUBLISHED BOOK: AUTHOR, EDITOR OR PUBLISHER?
The fault for a badly written book lies with the writer while the fault for a badly published book belongs to the publisher’ while the shame is a joint venture. A respectable publisher should never knowingly publish a bad book.
GAP 2020: AUTHORPEDIA PUBLISHES 10 YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS UNDER THE WRR CHAPBOOK SERIES
We are proud to announce the release of 10 new chapbooks authored by Abugu Chukwudalu M., Billyhadiat Taofeeqoh Adeola, Divine Inyang Titus, Ehi-kowochio Ogwiji, Iliya Kambai Dennis, Korede Kakaaki, Martins Deep, Naimah Abdullahi Sabo, Nnadi Samuel and Sarafadeen Ibrahim.
A BOY IS NOT ALWAYS A BUTTERFLY & OUR MOTHERS ARE NOT ALL MOONS: WHAT IS HAPPENING TO NIGERIAN POETRY?
It is time for our poets to realize that a boy is not always a butterfly & our mothers are not all moons. Poetry is first an expression of self before anything. Be original.
‘ODE TO MOTHERTONGUE’: NIGERIAN POETS DAZZLE POETRY LOVERS IN LOCAL DIALECTS FOR BPPC
‘Ode to Mother Tongue’ is a showdown of choruses of West African voices. In it, we read poets who appealed to the language of their hearts in the composition of their verses, in order to reach the audiences’ hearts. Indeed, the heart-of-the-matter in the edition’s theme ‘Mother Tongue’ is a matter of the heart.
Say ‘Hello’ to AUTHORPEDIA – Assisted-Authorship Publishing
As a remote-servicing company, our digital assets have always been important, which is why we proudly unveil our brand-new interactive publishing website – AUTHORPEDIA.NET.
A POET’S PAST MUST ADRESS HIS PRESENT (an essay by Oludipe Oyin Samuel)
One finds a poet who sounds less like his environment or the rest of his remaining works. One finds a horde of clannish poets who have resumed trapping their styles in the net of the other. One finds a literary community that has forgotten to produce the spirit-immersed poetry, the kind that broadly establishes the contaminant emotive will; not the kind that breeds a hive of self-importance—tributes and odes to self—that which undermines the vicarious role of pathos.