THREE POEMS BY TEMILADE ADELAJA
HAIKU Day twinkle bowl of memories beside a boy Rusty walls Grey blocks gone with time Boy lives life Hands hold head in
Tears, Anger, and a Country’s Journey: A Review of Servio Gbadamosi’s A Tributary in Servitude By Chimezie Chika
The guilt incessantly troubles the poet’s psyche. In “Irritations in the Oyster” the guilt is explored with some poetic mastery: “I have danced to man-made tunes/slowly my feet withdraw.” The poem captures the inextricable link between a country’s failings and that of its individual citizens.
In the Words of an Inquisitor: Ndubuisi Martins’ answers through the bramble By Ifesinachi Nwadike
In answers, Ndubuisi is an irritating gadfly, buzzing with redolent questions that unsettle those that are standing on “The way answers come.” For Ndubuisi, answers come “in millipede’s streams/ dragging many legs