*Isidore Emeka Uzoatu “disambiguates” Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Since man started putting pen to paper to produce...
Author - Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
Isidore Emeka Uzoatu majored in the history of African Christianity at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Converted to creative writing by his elder brother, he abandoned his doctorate for stints on the staff of Crown Prince, Nigeria's pioneer male magazine, and Mister, its follow-up, in Lagos. He edited the latter before retiring to full time writing and a daytime job managing a trading company in Onitsha. Vision Impossible, his first novel, took twenty years to complete. He is married with children.
(i) FIRST INK Manual labourer writ large Forever tilling page, Sculpting for meaning From space unending, Until this dot of noon Minute hand and hour leg...
The award of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan of the United States of America has served to reopen the never foreclosed discourse about the...
COLOUR ME GREEN (To fellow LGBT activists) I’m for a world all green No other colour(s) will do, I ween The rainbow’s done its bit post-ark; Less fossil fuel...
VOICE SEARCH Heads light like evening breeze We traverse the corrugated roads of creation – Me and you – With only the moon for company Our propinquity hinge...
WINDOW SWIMMING IN ACCRA Abandoned to cleaners At the break of dawn Your oval serenity rests tranquil Resplendent in the deep blue hue Of your crystalline...
BONDING… II (To Ibadan) Dugbe the market Articulate your quantitatives Clark’s five-line poem Chart your perspectives The Wild West syndrome Colour your...
NIGERIA RONU! Aba: It takes less the time in light years From my evolving words to you To find an Hausa bukateria in Ama Awusa Serving tuwo shinkafi twice as...
