We are pleased to announce that Michael Imossan is the new Curator of Poetry Column-NND. He takes over from Pamilerin Jacob in this role. Michael Imossan was one of the inaugural winners of the Nigerian NewsDirect Chapbook Award, for his…
We are pleased to announce the judges of the 2024 edition of NIGERIAN NEWSDIRECT CHAPBOOK AWARDS are The NIGERIAN NEWSDIRECT CHAPBOOK AWARDS is an initiative of Poetry Column-NND that seeks to promote the voices of Nigerian poets, as the column does weekly…
By Samuel A. Betiku With Nigeria’s economy and poverty levels worsening, abductions have become an almost daily occurrence in recent years — Reuters Until now, you savoured the world in packets of myth, moon- lit frolic and a cot where…
By Osahon Oka Your hands shake the tray, the cup scatters its hypodermic needles of piercing light, liquid trembling around its rim & then, spill comes gently & sudden to its own impermanence: a puddle slowly closing its eyes. You…
By Timi Sanni I arrived at this world already primed for pain—the hurt, persistent, primal, poised. Born on the rubble in the wake of the war,I was no different from that childbirthed in the aftermath of the world’s worst divorce.…
By Ajibola Tolase In the doctor’s office wheremy symptoms dissipate at the newsof negative test results. I’m lookingat my tongue, colored orangeby Fanta in the mirror. Sinceit seemed I will live I shiftmy focus to things dying in me—English words…
By I.S. Jones I loved you when I was a childand so, my love for you was childish.For nine lifetimes, you’ve haunted my dreams. Nine lifetimes of finding me in the tender hoursthat hang low enough to touch.Which doesn’t help…
by tosin gbogi what does the sea bring back to me now what does it wash ashore in its nude song of crossing and what floats on its frothing face, butterflying with the tide . . . the light of…
By Olatunde Osinaike Getting to know him in the interim, and the gulf of prepositions describing the relative he has been to the two younger than me. Around, against, beyond, concerning, without, notwith- standing: all of the ways we have…
By Inimfon Inyang-Kpanantia the truest poems start with forgiveness for the things I could have become — more when I needed to be vulnerable so I wouldn’t grow into stone. so you see there is no more flexibility in here,…
