EVEN A GUN MISTAKES ITSELF FOR SAFETY — EOPP 2022 TOP 20 POEMS
TITLE: EVEN A GUN MISTAKES ITSELF FOR SAFETY GENRE: POETRY NO. OF PAGES: 44 YEAR: 2022 " Blame the men who don't know when to aim the gun. & those...
OF POETIC YELLOW TRUMPETS — TOP 80 POEMS OF THE BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2022
Title: OF POETIC YELLOW TRUMPETS Editor: BRIGITTE POIRSON & KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON Genre: POETRY No. of Pages: 100 Year: 2022 " Those who have carved out a place for themselves...
HOW FLOWERS POLLINATE BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF BUTTERFLIES BY OJO OLUMIDE EMMANUEL
Title: HOW FLOWERS POLLINATE BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF BUTTERFLIES Author: OJO OLUMIDE EMMANUELGenre: POETRYNo. of Pages: 34Year: 2022 " Ojo Olumide Emmanuel's how flowers pollinate before the arrival of butterflies...
CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘PACESETTERS’ [ISSUE 2, VOL. 2 | OCTOBER 2022]
The October 2022 Issue of CỌ́N-SCÌÒ Magazine honours selfless individuals—pacesetters, as we labelled them—who have shown a sustained desire to create opportunities, communities, and supportive structures for everyone in the Nigerian literary space we share.
ORCHESTRAS OF REVOLUTION — BPPC AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2022 TOP 20 POEMS
Title: ORCHESTRAS OF REVOLUTION Editor: BRIGITTE POIRSON & KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON Genre: POETRY No. of Pages: 32 Year: 2022 " In ORCHESTRAS OF REVOLUTION, you will hear dissenting voices—pain, anger,...
A UNIVERSE WHERE U=ME: BPPC JUNE-JULY 2022 TOP 20 POEMS
Jewo’s Love & Lingua, from which this anthology’s title comes, is largely aspirational like many of the other poems in this anthology. This speaks to our nature as humans to always look beyond what is already known.
CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘IDENTITY’ [ISSUE 2, VOL. 1 | JULY 2022]
You will find amazing poems, essays, stories, photographs and art that bare, obscure, illuminate, conceal, appreciate and define the things that make us, or otherwise. We invite you to read, discuss, and share this gift. You may uncover layers of your identity that you never knew existed and, perhaps, become free: “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free” — Ralph Ellison.
DO NOT DIE IN THEIR WAR — BPPC APRIL-MAY 2022 TOP 20 POEMS
Why would a poet say, “Do not die in their wars,” when the world is still reeling from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the countless victims did not choose to be victims? This is a valid question, but the poet is right because war neither begins nor ends on its own.
Humans are the ones who start wars and, deliberately or unknowingly, create the conditions that eventually destroy them and other innocents.
HOW A POET LOVES A POEM — BPPC FEBRUARY-MARCH 2022 TOP 20 POEMS
Title: HOW A POET LOVES A POEM Editor: BRIGITTE POIRSON & KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON Genre: POETRY No. of Pages: 32 Year: 2022 " ...The poets delivered original poetry of sentiments,...
DECEMBER BLUES BY EMMANUEL FAITH
Christmas is for fried rice and chicken’
Pent-up beefs fried over beefs
To conjure memories of those missing
And express all bottled-up grief
Christmas is for abandoned novels
Books, covers coated with dust
To splurge on wine, explore new labels
And mark boundaries between love and lust