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Nnadi Samuel brims with weird imaginative creativity. His poems are hybrids of contemporary and traditional images, daring images. He has a good grip of language—salty missile, sweating bullets—damn!

there is healing in the
embrace of quietude by the night –
memories unspooling from bodies like
smoke from an ember.

This is the truth.
you can’t run away from your body
even when it repels itself
You can’t flee a form bestowed unto itself
even when it creaks with unhinged memories
& you search for exit doors in the pores of
your skin

You will be at once quenched and refreshed, droplets of Summer rain on your tongue so bittersweet.

TITLE: I TRIED TO SPELL YOU IN CLOUDS AND THEIR WATERS AUTHOR: ABUGU CHUKWUDALU M GENRE: POETRY NO. OF PAGES: 32 YEAR: 2020 " Abugu's poems in I Tried To...

Naimah puts cupid to trial in the sequence with which she braided through poems like search, no strings attached, second chance and other interesting pieces extoling the divine, decrying transgressions and musing about home and humanity in general

The world is
On bended knees.
Be more than a flower;
Soft, fragile and chic.
Be steadfast like mountains
and deep like the Amazon.
Dance like the storm
Hold dignity in your bones,
Hold your identity like a flag
And if anyone tries to eclipse your light,
Wave it in their face.

Martins Deep, in A Sheaf of Whispering Leaves, writes from a place of meditation on the scars left by the past on the present.

TITLE: MANIA AUTHOR: ADURA OJO GENRE: POETRY NO. OF PAGES: 26 YEAR: 2020 " These spare poems thrust us into self-examination, fellowship, celebration. They are stylistically adventurous. Conscientious and erotic,...