Romeo Oriogun’s debut poetry collection Sacrament of Bodies is still some 12 days away from its March 1 publication date but the anticipation is reaching fever-pitch. Sacrament of Bodies interrogates queerness, masculinity, and Nigerianness, and is a meditation on pain, love, joy, and how we overcome. The book has some big fans in Ilya Kaminsky […]
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Book Review | Adedayo Agarau’s The Arrival of Rain | Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera
The opening lines of Adedayo Agarau’s poetry chapbook The Arrival of Rain (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2020) goes: “broken every time the door opens/or is banged against your face/you can count your losses/but do you remember my name?” The poem is titled “look how far i’ve come,” and the reader will most likely pause after reading […]
Mother Tongues | Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s Poetry & Translation Series is an Intergenerational Celebration of Language & Culture
At the 2019 Lagos International Poetry Festival, the Ghanaian-British poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley screened her film, Mother Tongues, “a poetry, translation and film series celebrating acclaimed poets of colour alongside the cultures, languages and women that have nurtured them.” Bulley’s poetry has been shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, featured on BBC Radio […]
Editor’s Note | 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Issue II | Ebenezer Agu
In producing this anthology, there were challenges we had not foreseen, mostly because the individuals involved lived in different continents and time zones. Wile it has been exhausting, we have also experienced that rewarding joy of pulling off a difficult task. This year, we worked with 30 contributors, Yasmin Belkhyr and Kayo Chigonyi as guest […]
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