Author: Lion and Lilac
A Booktiful Love epitomises poetic-storytelling in a conscious manner
Reviewer: Emmanuel Ojex It’s okay to start small– Little beginnings with no endpoint in sight A Booktiful Love makes for a wonderful journey read. The author, Tolu Akinyemi, goes out of his way to touch the heart, eyes and soul of the reader of the book. From the very first poem in the collection, […]
A Poet Craves for a Better Society in “A Constellation of Cravings”
Poets are the conscience of society and they are fond of using their poetic voices to affect society positively. Oluwaseun Alele, the author of “A Constellation of Cravings” makes a case for the importance of poets to make society a better place for us all. The first poem we will analyse in this review […]
Missionary Might As Well Have Two Meanings – A Review Of Silk Psalms
Authors: Jide Badmus & Alozor Michael Ikechukwu Publisher: Inkspired The topic of passion is often not discussed in Nigeria. We are a nation that does not talk about sex except in hushed tones and with innuendos. This is the status quo that Jide Badmus and Alozor Michael upset with this chapbook and what makes it […]
Four Poems| Katrenia Busch
The Oracle of Birds For air is to peace Earth is to war This here I now release Whether close or from afar Division found at my feet Different at the ground Congealed at my head, the clouds throne, their seat Where the air itself is found For war is awakened in […]
Four Poems | Michael Brockley
Best of Cream Linda borrowed my Best of Cream album, the one with an eggplant and a pumpkin on the cover, the same day she told me I kissed like a dish cloth. The next day she rode shotgun with a grad student who careened his corona-red Firebird through stoplights while blasting Earth, Wind, and […]
Four Poems | Linda Crate
as i am i didn’t know what to say when you told me i better not to be a lesbian, felt as if you had stumbled into a secret of mine i wasn’t ready to share; except i’m not a lesbian but i am also not straight— i buried that part of myself for […]
Four Poems | Lydia Tai
Aspirations of the Ages One day, I’ll turn six years old. I’ll have grown so big that I can climb a mountain. I won’t fall off my bike, or be afraid of monsters under my bed. One day, I’ll turn ten, and at school I’ll be the first to write cursive fluently. One day, I’ll […]
Two Poems|Oloyede Michael Taiwo
A box of epiphanies A bird sprinkles poops of luck on your head, you winked and blurted out a cough tripping on your canvas over a cylinder of ire the bird chirped a spool of cackles the same way little Joe sprinkled some pee on your clothes in his bassinet with a […]
Park Life & Addressing | Jude Brigley | Flash Fiction
Park Life Today, I was the only person walking in the Municipal Park at the top of the hill, built on what my mother called a slag heap left over from the Iron Industry. It felt as if the place was my private property. The emptiness may have been because the rain was driving […]
Four Poems|Shawn Pfunder
A Short Love Poem about Sheets We use sheets to learn how to love or how to tie knots and escape out of windows. Or both. Billy Corgan is an Asshole Everybody knows that Billy Corgan is an asshole. Only assholes name their band something like Smashing Pumpkins. Only assholes smash pumpkins. But […]