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Publié par

Purple Letters Publishers

Date de parution

31 août 2024

EAN13

9789786097930

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

23 Mo

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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Publié par

Purple Letters Publishers

Date de parution

31 août 2024

EAN13

9789786097930

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

23 Mo

The Yawning Earth

✆ ✄☎ �✭✂ ✁

Wellington Nwogu

Published in Nigeria by Purple Letters Publishers

Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Tel: +234 (0) 8084941157, +234 (0) 9039958891

E-Mail:purpleletterspublishers@gmail.com

First published, 2022 Copyright Wellington Nwogu, 2022. ✿

ISBN:978-978-60979-3-0

This book is protected by copyright and

should not be copied, reproduced or

performed without the prior written

permission of the copyright owner. Any form of illegal

reproduction is thus punishable under

the copyright laws of Nigeria.

First print, March, 2022.

Praise for Wellington Nwogu’s Poetry

“Verses in Wellington Nwogu’sThe Yawning Earthenvelope 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.”

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✍ ✟✎✏☛ ☞✌☞✡

The Sun Newspaper.

“InThe Yawning Earth,Wellington Nwogu experiments with different styles, weaving words into

a tapestry that interrogate contemporary realities. This collection once more shows Nwogu as

a voice of the society whose pen bothers more on the soul of his society over everything else.”

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✍✝✔✔✓✝☞✑

✕✝ ✘ ✙ ✗✍ ✟✖

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Multiple award winning poet and author ofHome Equals Holes: Tale of an Exile

“Wellington’s TheEarth Yawning is a consternation of star voices that sing our dark songs. Its

elegiac essence uses the beautiful art of language to archive our present realities. You enjoy the

aesthetics of poetry without losing the genesis reason Nwogu's pen kisses the paper. The wow

effect hits the specs, and affects the defects of: both the sects and the elects. What an amazing

library it is!”

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✜ ✙✍✎✞

✞✟✝✝✘ ✢ ✣

Winner, 'War of Words 3' and author ofSpoken Word Poetry -101.

“Nwogu again and again commits his talent to an uncanny revelation of socio-political

apperception way beyond his years. This is compelling commitment of the art of poetry to the

needs and answers of the questions of the times.”

✲ ✥ ✤

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✟✙✘ ✙✙

Author,Pieces of Broken Thingsand Former Chairman, Association of Nigerian Authors,

Rivers State Branch.

“Enter, stage right, Wellington Nwogu, in his handsThe Yawning Earth, a collection that could

well be subtitled poetry of lamentations. Déjà vu? Not quite. However, if lamentation is a virtue, Nwogu perhaps takes the virtuoso prize. But in contemporary Nigeria, who in their right senses could be immune to this? Who could even hint at art-for-art’s-sake, or an early Okigboesqe poetry-for-poets disposition when the land itself is seized by sleaze? Or is, as Nwogu himself puts it, a “Regime of Hunger” where “food’s feet are forbidden”? Or where the

persona is among the “men maimed” and who are forced to fire back: “How would you wash/ our watery faces with iron soap-/ you of iron heart?” These are not just people possessed by poesy. These are people pummeled by pain, people who wield the pen to make plain their plaints. They are people who thought they had escaped the pangs of misrule only to find themselves ensnared by their own vote, (or election “mine-thods”), and plunged seemingly irretrievably into the abyss of anomy. A country littered with spires and minarets, of general overseers and imams, but where vice is the unchallenged viceroy…The Yawning Earthoften echoes the beauty of Niyi Osundare’s poetry in its spring-like flow…which says much about Nwogu’s progress as a young poet who should, at the very least, be taken notice of.”

✪✫ ✬✫ ✧★ ✩

✳✪ ✴ ✮✯✰✱

Author,Imminent River. “In vibrant metaphors woven into a tapestry of rhythmically lean language, Wellington’sThe Yawning Earthbrings 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.”

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✹ ✯✪ ✬✬ ✰ ✸ ✷★

Former President, Association of Nigerian Authors.

“The Yawning Earthis an impressive lyric that portrays that clamour that hurts and screams with

the soul….”

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❃✼ ✾ ❀ ❁ ❂

❂❅❆ ❄

Knight of Verses. Chilean, Poet.

“All the poems follow a similar trend in structure, tempo and topicality. They are all straight

out of our national dislocations and the unending bruises foisted on the psyche of a nation and people lost on all forms of traps and despoliations. From "Pure Poverty," "Scavengers" to "A

Regime of hunger," huge envelopes of deprivations present shafts of wants in the midst of

plenty especially in the Niger Delta area. So when "Strange government of/strange governance"

(A Regime...) and "Poverty wheels its wings/on the path of weeping winds" (Pure Poverty)...

They present nothing but latent pictures of the angst in the land in the face of failed leadership

or the utter absence of common sense. The trendy spicing of dated lines with omnibus coinages

such as "hawks gawk" and "…spit and gawp" serve to not only heighten the extent of

desperation in the land but also accentuates the rhyming scheme of these poems to the sultry

caravan of poetry that trashes the reality of our socio-political experience. These…poems

make you angry and extensively compassionate.”

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Lecturer, Department of English, University of Uyo.

“The Yawning Eartha well thought metaphoric presentation by the great poet. postulates

Wellington here, literally depicts a society where the inhabitants live in abject poverty—in the

midst of abundance…he is a poet of outstanding artistic style.”

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Lecturer, Akwa-Ibom State.

For those whose bread is eaten; clay-pots broken,

and those who make our earth to starve and sob.

V^_[\]ZWXYZ❙❚UV

It is only the river that wants to dry up that forgets its source, but has a tree ever made a

forest? No one has ever made it alone. Therefore, my unalloyed thank-you goes first to the

Supreme God of Heaven and earth—my Muse, giver of inspiration, and then to the editors and

critics of this collection as well as to my lovely wife and parents for all their encouragement in

the course of this work. Without them, this brain-child (book) wouldn’t have come into being

today.

My profound thanks also go to my young children and to my friends and also to those who

might have discouraged or frustrated me.

Wellington Nwogu.

God’s grace—

The grease Of my pen.

A poet is a storyteller, though in verse.

- Wellington Nwogu.

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