SHORTLIST: ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2018

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The judges of the 7th edition of the annual Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize (EOPP 2018), ADEDAYO AGARAU and OYINDAMOLA SHOOLA, have released a shortlist of 20 poems selected from the two hundred and twenty-five (225) entries received.

According to the judges, the following poems will go in for the second round of judging for a chance to win the N50,000 prize:

APPLICATION FOR SURVIVAL
STRIPPING A RIVER ITS NAME
MY MIND – A PLANTATION OF HOPE
NOW &THEN
THE VERB FLEE
IF ONLY
//ERROR 404//
TO WAZOBIA, WITH LOVE
MY HAIR REGIMEN
THE SOUND OF RAINBOW#
I BURN INCENSES BEFORE SLEEP
THE TRUTH IN A BLANK PAGE
GIFT OF THE JUNGLE
A PATRIOT’S REQUIEM OR AN IMMIGRANT’S TESTAMENT
THIS IS NIGERIA
THIS IS HOW YOU SMELL IN THE AFTERNOON
THE RIVERS BETWEEN
BOTTLED COUNTRY
STRIPPING A RIVER ITS NAME
ILLEGITIMATE CHILD

PRIZES TO BE WON:

First Prize – N25,000 cash and an all-expense paid invitation to the PIN Food Poetry Contest award dinner
First Runner-up – N15,000 cash
Second Runner-up – N10,000 cash
NOTE: All poets on the shortlist of 10 will receive SFEV certificates of recognition and books by Eriata Oribhabor

The winners will be announced before the 31st of March 2019.

ABOUT EOPP:

EOPP was instituted in 2012 as an annual Prize to give the much-needed attention to Nigerian poetry and encourage young Nigerian poets to use poetry as a tool for social change. The yearly contest has become the leading platform for the discovery, encouragement, and celebration of poets in Nigeria.