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 an expectation of grace and surprise.
— Bash Amuneni, author of Author of ‘There Is a Lunatic in Every Town’…
Odu Ode is a poet from Nasarawa State, North-Central Nigeria. His poetry have featured in anthologies, journals, online platforms, literary fora and elsewhere, some were under the name ‘Ahmadu Usman’. He spends most time flipping pages heavy with thoughts of Svetlana Alexievich, Khalil Gibran, Shittu Fowora, Frantz Fanon, Mahmoud Darwish, and Mazisi Kunene.
Odu Ode writes from Abuja.