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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 a mother’s mouth is a treasure-box brimming with love. The future is not far, it is here, crafted with the dexterity of the poet’s imagination.

— Saddiq Dzukogi, author of Inside the Flower Room


David Ishaya Osu is a poet, memoirist and street photographer. His work has appeared in Magma Poetry, Poetry Wales, The Griffith Review, The Oxford Review of Books, among numerous others. He is the poetry editor of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel, and a board member of Babishai Poetry Foundation based in Uganda.

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