Friday, March 29, 2024

Poetry

English as a Tool in Relating the African Experience

By Ofuonyeadi Chukwudumebi Mercy Title: My Africa, My City: An Afridiaspora Anthology Editor: Nana-Ama Kyerematen Publisher: Winepress Publishing Number of pages: 155 Year of publication: 2016 Category: Essays,...

Against Liberalism and Idealism

By Ayodele Ibiyemi  Title: Euphoria of Sophistry Author: Terseer Sam Baki Publisher: SEVHAGE Publishers Number of pages: 62 Year of publication: 2015 Category: Poetry Terseer Sam Baki’s...

Humans, Psychology and Sociology as a Circle of Mutual Influence

By Omotola Otubela  Title: There Is a Lunatic in Every Town  Author: Bash Amuneni Publisher: SEVHAGE Publishers Number of pages: 83 Year of publication: 2016 Category: Poetry Ideas become...

A Flood of Titan Tears for a Nigerian Century

By Su’eddie Vershima Agema Title: Footmarks: Poems on One Hundred Years of Nigeria’s Nationhood Editors: Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and Naza Amaeze Okoli Publisher: ICS Services Limited Number...

The Portrait of the Poet as a Historian

By Ayodele Ibiyemi  Title: Iconography Author: Peter Akinlabi Publisher: Khalam Editions Number of pages: 84 Year of publication: 2016 Category: Poetry This collection, Iconography, can be read as history, as...

Love and Death in Dami Ajayi’s A Woman’s Body Is a Country

By Nureni Ibrahim  Title: A Woman’s Body Is a Country  Author: Dami Ajayi Publisher: Ouida Books Number of pages: 69 Year of publication: 2017 Category: Poetry Dami Ajayi’s second collection,...

Colours for the Bright Young Ones

By Ona Akinde  Title: Dreamrun: Poems for Bright Young People Author: Tade Ipadeola Publisher: Metamorphic Books and Consulting Services Number of pages: 14 Year of publication: 2017 Category:...

Unrealistic Optimism in Hyginus Ekwuazi’s One Day I’ll Dare to Raise My Middle Finger at the Stork and the Reaper.

By Uchenna Ekweremadu  Title: One Day I’ll Dare to Raise My Middle Finger at the Stork and the Reaper Author: Hyginus Ekwuazi Publisher: SEVHAGE Publishers Number...

The Primacy of Life: A Review of Ikeogu Oke’s The Heresiad

By Uchenna Ekweremadu Title: The Heresiad  Author: Ikeogu Oke Publisher: Kraft Books Ltd Number of pages: 105 Year of publication: 2017 Category: Poetry ‘I felt my standpoint shaken In the universal crises. But...

The Animist Swath

By Tade Ipadeola Title: Animist Chants and Memorials  Author: Harry Garuba Publisher: Kraft Books Ltd Number of pages: 79 Year of publication: 2018 Category: Poetry ‘Can we ever again shred the drapery...

A Tale of New Beginnings

By Kemi Falodun Title: Unlikely Author: Colleen Crawford Cousins  Publisher: Modjaji Books Number of pages: 63 Year of publication: 2016 Category: Poetry Different people make different demands...

A Bride’s Mother’s Cry

By Dami Ajayi Title: Now the World Takes These Breaths Author: Joan Metelerkamp Publisher: Modjaji Books Number of pages: 61 Year of publication: 2014 Category: Poetry To the uninitiated, the poetry of Joan...

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