Poets from all over the world today do not come any loftier than Nigeria’s Niyi Osundare. In my book, he is the next poet destined to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Lovers of intellection are thrilled that on Wednesday,…
The evolving poetics of the Jagaban of Borgu — Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
Aspects of Nigeria have been compared to a dancing mask. No less so, its political leadership and followership. Like one overzealous pundit aptly put it, the story of our nation’s power play is always in an unravelling mode. In fact,…
Niyi Osundare’s new book, “Green: Sighs of our Ailing Planet”, out this month
The latest book by Niyi Osundare, Green: Sighs of Our Ailing Planet, is set for launch before the end of this month. Published by Commonwealth Books alongside Black Widow Press, the anthology is Mr Osundare’s compilation of critical pastoral poems…
There was a poet called Idzia Ahmad – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Many critics across the globe scoff at contemporary poetry. In an April 2, 2000 London Sunday Times review of Jonathan Bate’s The Song of the Earth, critic Bryan Appleyard wrote: “Nobody cares about poetry anymore. It is marginalised, trivial, the…
Winner in the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize for Review to be announced on Friday at LABAF 2018
The winner in the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize for Book Review, will be announced on Friday, November 9 at the ongoing 20th Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF), which ends on November 11 at Freedom Park, Lagos. The annual competition designed…