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The Yawning Earth: Poems
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ISBN13: 9789785494525
Publisher: Purple Letters Publishers
Published: Jan 9 2024
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Verses in Wellington Nwogu's The Yawning Earth envelope the reader with frissons of delight with its lyrical abundance and nutmeg, like Niyi Osundare's sublimating redolent tonalities, opening a chapter of personal cogitations and societal woes that elicit self scrutiny. Here is a solid voice out of the fringe of Nigerian poetry that is bound to compel attention.
-Henry Alcubuiro, The Sun Newspaper.
The Yawning Earth often echoes the beauty of Niyi Osundare's poetry in its springlike flow...which says much about Nwogu's progress as a young poet who should, at the very least, be taken notice of.
-Anaele Ihuoma, Author, Imminent River.
In vibrant metaphors woven into a tapestry of rhythmically lean language, Wellington's The Yawning Earth brings out a fresh poetics voicing out the dystopia that has engulfed the land. The poems bristle with anger and hunger for a world that must be rescued from its downhill journey to the abyss. Nwogu's offering in this collection announces that he is indeed a young poet to look out for in the maze of Nigerian contemporary poetry.
-Denja Abdullahi, Former President Association of Nigerian Authors.
The Yawning Earth is an impressive lyric that portrays that clamour that hurts and screams with the soul...
-Robinson Alexis Vera, Knight of Verses. Chilean, Poet.
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