FEAST OF WORDS 2018: THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE
It has been a couple of days since we successfully held another memorable edition of the FEAST OF WORDS, the annual Words Rhymes & Rhythm Literary Festival. I have been...
AJPP: AIRE JOSHUA OMOTAYO WINS ALBERT JUNGERS POETRY PRIZE 2018
Aire Joshua Omotayo is the winner of the Albert Jungers Poetry Prize (AJPP) 2018, awarded to the best poem from the combined top 10 entries of the monthly Brigitte Poirson...
AJPP 2018 SHORTLIST: WHO WILL WIN ALBERT JUNGERS POETRY PRIZE?
We are pleased to announce the 10-man shortlist of the 2018 edition of the Albert Jungers Poetry Prize (AJPP), awarded to the best poem from the combined top 10 entries...
‘ON A STORMY SHORE’ BY KINSLEY DOMINIC
The waves tossed at me, Trying to tear me up into debris, "What will be will be!" Was all that came to mind amid the crisis. How does one go...
‘I AM POETRY’ BY ALEXANDER A ODUMAN
I am the voice you hear From your sweet love, dear, Which, like a swift, sharp spear, pierces a young deer. I am the segment you use, The brain behind...
‘WHAT I SAW’’ BY EZINNE ONYEKACHI OHA
Submerged within my soul are wise words, which my whole craves, Voices whose roaring breath enslaves the caves of sunk slaves. Last night, I dreamed my eyes to death before...
‘THIS PLACE I CALL HOME’ BY CHINAZOM OTUBELU
I pray thee, father, speak to the cursed clouds that bear thy son’s wish, For this sick dome I know as home has stung lush lungs off my fish. I...
‘REWRITING THE STARS’ BY SONEYE ANUOLUWA OLUSEGUN
We have journeyed on broken bridges and hovered through flaming caves, On crumbling bricks and through hollows of hell and hades. Our past pricks and the fear of a futile...
‘JOURNEYING IN THIS JOURNEY’ BY OLOLADE AKINLABI
i This journey starts from the sea-men, Coalition of sea-men to meet the ova; Crumple and trample in the genital's den And at the blink of an eye, it is...
‘INTERRED SOLACE OF MY SOLITUDE’ BY KOLADE MALIK ADEMOLA
When the sun overtly deserts the day And the beat of my heart springs to gay, My soul, that I know is frail Seeks solace in the solitude of my...