Oka Benard Osahon is the winner of the June 2017 edition of the monthly Words Rhymes & Rhythm backed BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC). Themed ‘AS THE MUSE LEADS’, the June edition of the BPPC was keenly contested, but Osahon’s emotion laden poem, ‘IGNORANCE IS BLISS’, emerged best out of...
Entries are now being received for the June edition of the Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON III, 2017. In this month’s edition, there will be no central theme. Participating poets are expected to simply verse ‘AS THE MUSE LEADS’, expressing the freedom of the...
Rachael Ige has won the May 2017 edition of the monthly Words Rhymes & Rhythm backed BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) themed ‘THE 21ST CENTURY WOMAN’. Ige, a budding poet and recent University of Ibadan Law graduate, won the contest with a uniquely crafted poem which the judges described as...
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo has emerged the winner of the April 2017 edition of the monthly Words Rhymes & Rhythm backed BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) on the theme ‘KNOWING SELF: THE MENTAL HEALTH SILENCE’. Adebayo’s metaphor-laden poem, ‘death is a deliverance’, beat ‘BREAKING A FALL’ by D. E. Benson and...
Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) is receiving entries for the May edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON III, 2017. This special edition is open only to FEMALE poets living in Africa. The theme is ‘THE 21ST CENTURY WOMAN’. “The 21st century woman is a rapidly changing one,...
Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) is now receiving entries for the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON III, 2017 (April edition). Poets from Nigeria, Africa and all over the world are hereby invited to submit their poems on the theme: ‘KNOWING SELF: THE MENTAL HEALTH SILENCE’ “Mental health includes our...
A Zoology student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, Izuchukwu Saviour Otubelu, is the winner of the March 2017 edition of the monthly Words Rhymes & Rhythm backed BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC). Otubelu’s poem ‘PREACHER, PREACHER’ was declared winner by the judges out of almost a hundred and...
TITLE: CITY OF GOLD AND RUST AUTHOR: dave chukwuji GENRE: Prose/Fiction NUMBER OF PAGES: 121 PUBLISHER: WORDS RHYMES & RHYTHM PUBLISHERS DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2017 ISBN: 978-978-54741-8-3 REVIEWER: JOSEPH OMOTAYO In CITY OF GOLD AND RUST, modernity and traditions clash and the rustic marries the exotic. Dave Chukwuji writes a...
Patriotic Nigerian poets living in or outside the country are hereby invited to submit well-worded poems on Nigeria for an anthology that seeks to poetically rewrite the sad story of our nation’s journey from 2015 to 2017. The slow beginnings of the current administration, the hiccups, especially the recession and...
Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) is now receiving entries for the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON III, 2017 (March edition). Poets from Nigeria, Africa and all over the world are hereby invited to submit their poems on the theme: ‘CONFUSION: THE NEW WORLD (DIS)ORDER?’ We live in a world...
