The Yawning Earth

Poems

Wellington Nwogu

• Publisher: Purple Letters Publishers
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9789786097930
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: African Poetry
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Praise for Wellington Nwogu’s Poetry
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• From the Poet
• Table of contents
• Section One: Sad Songs
• Section Two: Tyrants of Earth
• Section Three: Rhythms of Hunger
• Section Four: Dawns of Hope
• The Poet
• Back cover