Next year… next birthday…. next Christmas…. and time sneaked in unannounced, uninvited sweeping it all away: the years the birthdays the seasons— leaving behind, only the fragments of the memory of a life and of a face too blurred for memory… in the twinkling of a lifetime. From the collection, One Day I’ll Dare … Continue reading as life goes by (a poem) by Hyginus Ekwuazi
Sometimes finding titles to these posts can be a challenge… However, getting titles to publish hasn’t been so much of an issue. We have had a healthy number come in. So, where have we been? It has been a very busy season for me and all of us at SEVHAGE. We made a call for … Continue reading SPARKING THE LITEROSPHERE WITH SEVHAGE (WHERE WE HAVE BEEN)
It was the night of the full moon and we were at supper: that was when they came for my grandmother. The birth, they said, was not going too well—and was it everything the eye saw that the head carried into the homestead? In silence, they looked at my grandmother and my grandmother looked at … Continue reading They took the moonlit night with them I (A Poem) by Hyginus Ekwuazi
Hey guys! Really sorry I have been a bit off… There has been lots of stuff to catch up with. There was an interview I had with the network service of our Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) which I travelled to the capital for… Ah! That was something else. The way it is done, the interviewee … Continue reading RANTING ON WHERE I HAVE BEEN: ON THE ROAD
(for a wonderful man; my friend and teacher, Hyginus Ekwuazi) The owl has nested his head the raven croaked to bed the heavens spray new rays from source… Herald, listen: the beauty of the dawn chorus. Not till the final i finds its dot the cross to T its spot not till Aôndo’s face … Continue reading Dawning to light (A Birthday Poem) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
(For my friend, Su’eddie) This, only this, would I have you note this birthday: on creation’s day of gifts he gave you feet to walk this rough-hewn earth— had he wanted you to fly he’d have given you wings! This, also, note: the well-beaten track is like water: no one leaves … Continue reading This Dawn Arise (A Poem) by Hyginus Ekwuazi
Always, this memory that I take to the shredder – this memory that, always ends up in the recycling bin and recycles itself at whim the look you normally gave me – that look that said aloud that you weren’t too sure I hadn’t been dropped on the head as a child that look of … Continue reading I’d learnt to wrap my pain in a smile (A Poem) – Hyginus Ekwuazi
Poetry, Stories and the very best of every art on offer in Ibadan on 17th August 2013. Guests in focus: Reward Nsirim, Hyginus Ekwuazi, Wemimo AyoDavid and Su’eddie Vershima Agema The quintessential literature and performance monthly parley, Artmosphere, is out with its August edition. The event curated by WriteHouse Collective, a leading social and creative … Continue reading IBADAN LIGHTS WITH ARTMOSPHERE ON 17th AUGUST 2013
In the unbroken moonlight on the Plateau: all the pains I’ve secreted away in the deep hiding places of my heart they crawl out, these hidden pains like insects from underneath these stones that dot the Plateau slowly, from deep within the tears come but the abressive winds dry them up… ..in the unbroken moonlight … Continue reading IN THE UNBROKEN MOONLIGHT (A Poem) by Hyginus Ekwuazi
Osofisan recounts this incident about how Okigbo took him to Mbari club one night to work. He was barely out of the secondary school and Okigbo was mentoring him. How for a few hours he managed to bang away at the typewriter before falling asleep. How in his sleep the smell of the midnight oil … Continue reading OKIGBO – MYTHMAKER & TOWNCRIER AT HEAVENSGATE by Hyginus Ekwuazi
Su'eddie in Life n' Literature 