Tuesday, June 23, 2009

News at Eleven: Words are haphazardly used to express ideas

for public consumption. This unwholesome development which takes its origin from a conglomeration of unedited poems written by people without clearly visible literary training or calling poses a mortal threat to poetry.

The relevance of poetry lies in its assertion and projection of an aspect of life of a people.

from Vanguard: Contemporary Nigerian poetry and garbage poetics

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