The Yawning Earth

<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>-Henry Alcubuiro The Sun Newspaper.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>-Anaele Ihuoma Author Imminent River.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>-Denja Abdullahi Former President Association of Nigerian Authors.</p><p><br></p><p>The Yawning Earth is an impressive lyric that portrays that clamour that hurts and screams with the soul...</p><p><br></p><p>-Robinson Alexis Vera Knight of Verses. Chilean Poet.</p>