ODE TO MOTHER TONGUE — BPPC JUNE/JULY 2020 TOP 20 POEMS
Title: ODE TO MOTHER TONGUE Editor: BRIGITTE POIRSON & KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON Genre: POETRY No. of Pages: 36 Year: 2020 " “What can define a place, a culture, the human...
CALLIGRAPHY OF DEMONS BY ODU ODE
TITLE: CALLIGRAPHY OF DEMONS AUTHOR: ODU ODE GENRE: POETRY NO. OF PAGES: 44 YEAR: 2020 " Usman's poetry is a beauty; the manuscript was unputdownable. Read this new poet with...
A LOVE I USED TO CALL MINE (Illustrated) BY WOLI KAFILAH
TITLE: A LOVE I USED TO CALL MINE AUTHOR: WOLI KAFILAH GENRE: POETRY NO. OF PAGES: 40 YEAR: 2020 " Woli has scaled through the different Haiku formats to create...
SEVEN FLOWERS OF GRATITUDE – BPPC APRIL/MAY 2020 TOP 20 POEMS
Title: SEVEN FLOWERS OF GRATITUDE Editor: BRIGITTE POIRSON & KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON Genre: POETRY No. of Pages: 32 Year: 2020 " “What is new under the fiery Covid sun of...
SURVIVING CORONATION STREET: A CORONAVIRUS SURVIVOR’S MEMOIR BY BRIGITTE POIRSON
Evening. Night. Morning. Noon. Afternoon. When dusk slowly descended upon the dumb landscape, I paced the room and addressed the door loudly. My diatribe boomeranged against the walls back into my Eustachian tubes – gracious enough to confirm they were still operational – that transmitted the message to my brain. Though pretty much entangled, my neurons agreed to take the cue and bounced an answer back to my mouth. We started a discussion from the argument reverberated by the walls. Sheets of paper finally settled the score. (Surviving Coronation Street: pg 16)
WHEN I’M EIGHTEEN BY DAVID ISHAYA OSU
TITLE: WHEN I'M EIGHTEEN AUTHOR: DAVID ISHAYA OSU GENRE: POETRY NO. OF PAGES: 26 YEAR: 2020 " Here is a neat universe, of everything beautiful about a poet’s mind, where...
FRIENDSHIP – BPPC FEBRUARY/MARCH 2020 TOP 20 POEMS
Title: FRIENDSHIP Editor: BRIGITTE POIRSON & KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON Genre: POETRY No. of Pages: 30 Year: 2020 " “The [poems in Friendship] will take you to the discovery of self-worth,...
LAGOS DOESN’T SLEEP BY EMMANUEL FAITH
TITLE: LAGOS DOESN'T SLEEP AUTHOR: EMMANUEL FAITH GENRE: POETRY NO. OF PAGES: 38 YEAR: 2020 " The poet finds a way of combining relatable images with rhymes and didacticism. The...
EXORCISM – EOPP 2019 TOP 20 POEMS (FREE DOWNLOAD)
Exorcism is a poetic portrait of Nigeria and her peoples. Every reader will find a poem that resonates with self because the styles, themes, diction and language preferences by the various poets are as unique as they are diverse.”
WHY I WRITE – A SPRINNG ANTHOLOGY
Title: WHY I WRITE Author: 2019 SPRINNG FELLOWSHIP COHORT Genre: POETRY No. of Pages: 29 Year: 2020 " In digging deep, the writers of this anthology put aside the popular lens...