Professor Tanure Ojaide will be a guest at this month's reading hosted by the Lagos State Chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors, holding today. His latest collection, Adult Love: In the Childhood Garden, published by Konya Shamsrumi, has been longlisted for the 2026 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature.
Honestly, this first question got me thinking because during my childhood, I disliked poetry a lot. For me, it felt really boring and unrelatable. And then one day at school, we were asked to write a poem on theme of "The Sun". I was in Primary six as at that time and fortunately for me, I was perceived as a "serious" student. My only intention behind writing that poem that day was to obtain my full marks for my assessment.
Ever since I was in Nursery school, I fell in love with those nursery rhymes and songs that even at home, I was always with my book simply because I wanted to recite it.
Bash Amuneni, renowned Nigerian spoken words poet has been appointed as the new poet in residence (Poet Laureate) for the Portsmouth Football Club, an England club with 126 years of history.