“I drink a full moon and a glass of water from my porch and watch the street emptying behind the doors. Soon, only the trees and houses will stretch their dark shifting shapes on the road.”
CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: THE LOCKDOWN [ISSUE 1, VOL. 1 | JANUARY 2021]
Inspired by and/or created during the pandemic, the offerings speak for themselves as fragments of individual experiences creatively recorded and freely donated to our collective knowledge.
WHY I WRITE 2020 — A SPRINNG ANTHOLOGY
Title: WHY I WRITE 2020 — A SPRINNG ANTHOLOGY Author: 2020 SPRINNG FELLOWSHIP COHORT Genre: PROSE, POETRY No. of Pages: 40 Year: 2020 " I write because putting down the words,...
A PANDEMIA OF POETRY— BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2020 TOP 40 POEMS
Title: A PANDEMIA OF POETRY Editor: BRIGITTE POIRSON & KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON Genre: POETRY No. of Pages: 66 Year: 2020 " “APandemia of Poetry is a collection of forty testimonies...
GOD’S WAY OF STAYING BEAUTIFUL BY ADENIRAN JOSEPH
Title: GOD’S WAY OF STAYING BEAUTIFUL Author: ADENIRAN JOSEPH Genre: POETRY No. of Pages: 23 Year: 2020 " As the poems in this chapbook will try to show, loving unconditionally...
AUTOPSY OF THINGS LEFT UNNAMED BY JOSHUA EFFIONG
Title: AUTOPSY OF THINGS LEFT UNNAMED Author: JOSHUA EFFIONG Genre: POETRY No. of Pages: 52 Year: 2020 " "A journey through moulded metaphors, insightful imageries and sinking similes, soothing sights...
‘FORGET IT’ BY OYINDAMOLA
I will write it. I will love it. I will think, “this-is-it.” Every time, I will think this-is-it.
ASHES OF ORANGE DREAMS BY FRANKLYN ORODE
“Here are words that will take you out on a date, with emotions you would want to hang on your heart’s hallways. The greatest achievement of this work is that it leads one on an expedition into the deepest part of oneself.”
TOWARDS A BEAUTIFUL BECOMING — BPPC AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2020 TOP 20 POEMS
Title: TOWARDS A BEAUTIFUL BECOMING Editor: BRIGITTE POIRSON & KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON Genre: POETRY No. of Pages: 30 Year: 2020 " “It is refreshing to read through the lines in...
SONGS WE SING BEFORE WE SLEEP BY ILIYA KAMBAI DENNIS
Iliya writes immensely on even the most trivial of feelings, sensations and ideas in a novel and amusing ways using witty aphorisms and engaging vocabularies.