| The Valentine Month Special features poems by Lola Shoneyin, Founding Coordinator of Ibadan Arts Renaissance, Nigeria, and
author of Song Of A Riverbird. A truly ironic choice, seeing that even Shoneyin’s ‘love’ poems tend to be hallmarked with textured
cynicism, although when she is not watching, she tends to betray a
fascinating tenderness. Here we have new poems Like A Split Reed At Waterfront and Music-Making, plus Trysexual (first published in Orbis) and You Shall Love Again (first published in So All The Time I Was Sitting On An Egg–Shoneyin’s first book of poetry).
Read the interview with Shoneyin: My E-Conversation with Lola Shoneyin by Nnorom Azuonye Click here
There are also the poems by Josef Lesser — Fragments Of A Letter Washed Ashore — Eyitemi Egwuenu–Chronicles III, Ngozi Obasi Awa–The Bee Hums Again, Barbara Reiher-Meyers–Valentine’s Day At the Laundromat, Kodi Azuonye–Entreaty, Durlabh Singh–Sleep,
Dike Okoro – Cape Town, Ngozi Unigwe – Beauty Is You, Tolulope Ogunlesi — Lorenzo and Maria, and three poems Substance Of My Dream, Whom Shall I Tell? and Remembering Old Times by Nnamdi Ndu.
Happy Reading>>>
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