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Lola Shoneyin

Lola Shoneyin's poetry has often been called "daring", "different". Author of "So All The Time I Was Sitting On An Egg" and "Song Of The Riverbird", Shoneyin is a graduate of Ogun State University and alumnus of the International Writers Programme at the University of Iowa. VISIT HER ONLINE.

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Jolademi - Poems by Lola Shoneyin

Unafraid, he feels for the walls
that will bring him to my door.
It has been four years since I spat him
from a lip in my womb.
Yet every night, he crawls back in...

Song of a Riverbird - Poems by Lola Shoneyin

I feel the sweep of eagle wings
I feel the sweep of unwoken winds
The eagle has found the wailing forests
The eagle has trailed the cry of nests...

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