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'Lyrical lushness' wins Nigeria 2021 African Poetry Prize – New Business Ethiopia


Suicide, sexuality and HIV/AIDS are some of the searing subjects Nigerian, Othuke Umokoro, writes about in his 2021 Brunel International African Poetry Prize-winning work.
The Port Harcourt based poet and playwright wins the £3,000 prize for his fearless words on family, hope, depression and loss, the judges said. A keen football fan, Othuke studied screenwriting at the University of Ibadan and works for Teach Nigeria, which aims to end educational inequality.
“I am humbled and excited to have won,” he said. This morning I told my students the news and they screamed with joy. It feels so surreal.”
“I believe this award is a door, a door wide and inviting like the ocean. I hope my win draws attention to the extraordinarily bold works of African poets, especially contemporary African poets, crafting their poetry in the continent and beyond.” ....

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'lyrical Lushness' Wins Nigeria 2021 African Poetry Prize


‘lyrical Lushness’ Wins Nigeria 2021 African Poetry Prize
By The Nigerian Voice
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Suicide, sexuality and HIV are some of the searing subjects Nigerian, Othuke Umokoro, writes about in his 2021 Brunel International African Poetry Prize-winning work.
The Port Harcourt based poet and playwright wins the £3,000 prize for his fearless words on family, hope, depression and loss, the judges said.
A keen football fan, Othuke studied screenwriting at the University of Ibadan and works for Teach Nigeria, which aims to end educational inequality.
I am humbled and excited to have won,” he said. This morning I told my students the news and they screamed with joy. It feels so surreal.” ....

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Behind the Poem: mines, fires underground and mythic homes – The Poetry Society


Paula Bohince and
Tarn MacArthur, the latest in the online Behind the Poem series in which poets reflect on the inspiration and development of one or more of their poems in
The Poetry Review.
Review, was sparked by a story in her local newspaper in Pennsylvania, about a fire that had been burning for fifty years in the closed coal mines beneath people’s homes.  Its final extinction, she says, “felt a little outrageous, and dipping into that emotion let me similarly roam in the writing process”.
Review, similarly wanders into its making, as he describes his time spent uncovering his family’s associations with St Kilda. His ancestral home inspires both myth and elegy. ....

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