Jolademi He creeps into my bedroom when the night is most alive. Unafraid, he feels for the walls that will bring him to my door. It has been four years since...
Author - 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.
Song of a Riverbird I have sat here by the riverfront My eyes on the grand footpath. I have sat here long By the bushes, upon the rocks Deaf to the...