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Jewo Oghenetega has won the June-July 2022 edition of the bi-monthly Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC). The prolific poet earned his first first-place finish in the BPPC with an aspirational poem titled Love & Lingua. He has made the top three in two previous editions.
Jewo’s winning poem declares that “a universe where “U” [you] = me” is the new frontier he aspires to. Throughout this poem, he illustrates how humans are wired to always look beyond their present circumstances and what is already known. In the second and third places, respectively, were Temidayo Testimony Omali Odey’s A Longing For The Unreachable and Osieka Osinimu Alao’s Dear Marx.
BPPC awards ₦30,000 in prize money shared among the top three entries. The top 10 poems are also automatically entered for the annual Albert Jungers Poetry Prize (AJPP).
The TOP 20 poems of the edition are published in a chapbook titled ‘A UNIVERSE WHERE U=ME’.
