The Illuminant has moral and didactic lessons. The poet is almost like a seer who is trying to align mankind with morality.
REVIEW: EMMANUEL FAITH LAYS BARE THE MYSTERIES OF THE CORPORATE WORLD IN CHRONICLES OF AN INTERN, ‘A BIBLE FOR INTERNS’
In this book, the corporate world is laid bare and stripped of its mysteries through the keen eyes of a resolute and resourceful observer. You’d be surprised at how much you are not maximizing your potentials in your career until you meet this book.
REVIEW: OYINDAMOLA SUCCESSFULLY DROPS MEANINGS IN ‘BUT HERE YOU ARE’
TITLE: BUT HERE YOU ARE AUTHOR: OYINDAMOLA SHOOLA GENRE: POETRY NO. OF PAGES: 33 PUBLISHER: WORDS RHYMES AND RHYTHMS LTD YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2019 ISBN: NILREVIEWER: EUGENE YAKUBU Oyindamola’s But...
REVIEW: TUKUR’S ‘A BOY’S TEARS ON EARTH’S TONGUE’ COMMUNICATES IN CLEAR AND PRECISE DICTION
TITLE: A BOY’S TEARS ON EARTH’S TONGUE AUTHOR: TUKUR OLORUNLOBA RIDWAN GENRE: POETRY NO. OF PAGES: 36 PUBLISHER: WORDS RHYMES AND RHYTHMS LTD YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2019 ISBN: NIL REVIEWER: ...
REVIEW: OKORIE’S THE MEN THAT COULDN’T LOVE ME ‘TORTURES THE READER WHILE CREATIVELY EXPLORING UNREQUITED LOVE’
Okorie’s The Men That Couldn’t Love Me did a great job in torturing the reader, while creatively exploring a lover’s endless cycle of wanting despite not being wanted: imagine reading “I want you” in different languages and other words for about a thousand times.
‘TIMELESS, MASTERFULLY WRITTEN’: PHUNSO ORIS’ FOREWORD TO ‘A BOY’S TEARS ON EARTH’S TONGUE’
A Boy’s Tears on Earth’s Tongue is a collection of timeless poems, masterfully written by a mind that is in alignment with existential and essentialist values of human experience
EZENWA-OHAETO REACHED A HEIGHT OF HONESTY, PASSION AND VULNERABILITY IN ‘I BURN INCENSES BEFORE SLEEP’: A REVIEW OF EOPP 2018 WINNING POEM BY OYINDAMOLA SHOOLA
For me, in ‘I Burn Incenses before Sleep’, Ezenwa-Ohaeto reached a height of honesty, passion and vulnerability, one that flawlessly implements its didactics and has the power to affect people, things and systems that we hold on to religiously.
REVIEW: IKWUEMESIBE’S ‘THE BIG MAN’ DOMESTICATES THEMES AND DICTION TO SUIT HIS READERS
Title: The Big ManAuthor: F.O.C. IkwuemesibeGenre: PoetryNo. of Pages: 78Publishers: Words Rhymes and RhythmYear of Publication: 2019ISBN: 978-978-969-514-0Reviewer: Eugene Yakubu The Big Man contains poems that discuss issues of society,...
IN ‘WHAT CAN WORDS DO’, KUKOGHO ANNOUNCED HIS UNPRETENTIOUS ARRIVAL AS A VOICE WE WILL CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO
Despite the elegance, finesse and alluring cadence of the rhyme and rhythm of the verses which announce a sophistication of style and aesthetics, Kukogho does not lose sight of the critical issues of deprivation and distortion that pervade the land and which require urgent redress.
REVIEW: OPIGO RECONSTRUCTS DECADES OF HISTORY IN THE SONG OF OUR FATHER AND HE DOES IT SO COMPREHENSIVELY…IT IS A NETWORK OF PROSE AND POETRY AND DRAMA
TITLE: THE SONG OF OUR FATHER AUTHORS: EMMANUEL AYIBAEMI FRANK-OPIGO GENRE: POETRY PUBLISHER: WORDS RHYMES AND RHYTHMS LTD YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2018 ISBN: 978-978-969-512-6 NO. OF PAGES: 258 REVIEWER: EUGENE...