Poetry

A character having multiple personality disorder decides to express herself. With six different personalities in her head vying for the spotlight, a constant battle occurs as the book progresses. The sagacious one starts with her wise stories, in her usual mature style. As the bitter one, the melancholic one and others take over, more heart wrenching issues are exposed, and the reality of the world we live in comes to play. Each character invites you to her world, to experience what they are experiencing in their own unique way. The book starts with a story about corruption in Corruption Noni, where the writer had the opportunity to interview corruption and then progresses to really deep stories that touch prostitution, religious hypocrisy, marital pressures, and other societal ills. Each story portrays a reality that you can relate with. At the end, the comic one ends up defeats all and is victorious with her funny stories, proving that no matter how twisted our reality is, there is always a reason to laugh in the end. Author Atilola Moronfolu ISBN 978-1477453780 Publisher CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Pages Paperback(136)

For Broken Men Who Cross Often   For Broken Men Who Cross often is a refreshing and brilliant bond of the written and the oral, as it invents aesthetic devices to connect the two mediums which have constantly generated wide debate: spoken word and poetry-on-the-page. The author reiterates, through his themes of advocacy, love, loss, identity and history, the need to revisit the inner self. In Efe Paul Azino, we will always listen to tradition in present-day voice. Author Efe Paul Azino ISBN 978-978-53163-8-4 Publisher Farafina Pages 70 (Paperback)

Garri For Breakfast Seun Lari-Williams believes law and poetry are brothers from the same mother; language. Both brothers serve as tools used to communicate an idea or a point. ISBN 9789789577484

There is a Lunatic in Every Town Amuneni takes us through tortuous spaces in beautiful language nuanced in gestural intensity wherein the beat of succinct words, destinies and destinations find purpose on the page. …for his lucidity of perception, tapestried locutions, deftness at painting word hybrid of riddles and insights, we should be most grateful. – Shittu Fowora, award winning writer, editor and critic. This collection has the earthy feel of real experience and yet the thrust and heft of creative imagination. – Tade Ipadeola, multiple award winning author of The Sahara Testaments and Winner of The NLNG Prize for Literature 2013 From metaphorical sketches of Nigerian cities and socio-political conditions, to the inevitable engagement with love, There is a Lunatic in Every Town tells an all too human story in Amuneni’s unmistakable voice. – Dike Chukwumerije, multiple award winning author, poet and ace performance poet. Bash Amuneni explores compelling themes in a voice that draws you in. It’s art to the ear and the eye. – Efe Paul Azino, ace performance poet and author of For broken men that cross often. Bash Amuneni picks words from within and paints pictures to touch those who would listen. The grand performance poet escapes the stage to find the page. This is one crazy poet talking to the lunatic in all of us and there are a million lessons laced in the lyrics of the verse; would we listen? – Su’eddie Vershima Agema, multiple award winning poet and winner of the ANA Prize for Poetry, 2014 Bash Amuneni, noted as one of Nigeria’s top performance poets, is an essayist and banker with a degree in Architecture. His first spoken word poetry album ‘Freedom’ was released in 2015. Bash’s artistic work is laced in intimacy, folklore, memory and the human condition. Bash has performed at various poetry platforms including The Lagos International Poetry Festival, the Nigerian Youth Summit 2016, and also at Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) Campaigns. His poems have been published in some National Dailies and International Magazines. He is a member of the Abuja Literary Society and one of the figures behind the Open Mic Movement- Freedom Hall Nigeria, which supports alternative music and poetry. He loves to draw and paint in his free time. Weight 0.5 kg Pages Paperback (83)

This Traffic in My Head “This Traffic In My Head” is a collection of poems in Pidgin and English. Witty, humorous, even crazy at sometimes with a whole bunch of serious themes mashed into one to create a great piece that is the first of its kind. The book deals with the lives of ordinary people who walk the streets of Nigeria and aims to help the reader see the world through their eyes. An exotic tale of high brow-meet-slum poetry. Weight 1 kg