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Dawn is An Open Wound

Dawn is An Open Wound

Badmus, Jide

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 9786136233
ISBN13: 9789786136233
Publisher: Noirledge Publishing
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In Dawn is an Open Wound, Jide Badmus transforms communal lament about Nigeria into lyric poems pulsating with intimacy and despair. Dami Ajayi, author of Clinical Blues and Affection and Other Accidents.

It is not often we hear that a poet has changed his style, especially for a poet like Jide Badmus, who is erroneously pigeonholed as an apolitical poet, known for his acute exploration of the body, sexuality and desire without paying attention to how politics is involved, or is imbricated within the three themes mostly associated with him. Dawn is an Open Wound is a book entirely new in his bourgeoning poetic oeuvre in which Jide Badmus writes about different, differing themes not just with fresh metaphor couched in a new poetic idiom, but in the way in which, within so short a time, he has radically reinvented not just style and poetics but more profoundly his political consciousness. Even in those poems which appear not overly political, the poet broaches political concern most memorably in The World is a Bat whose refrain any Nigerian would easily discern and relate with.

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