ISBN 9789785874631
Pages 112
Dimensions 216x140mm
Published 2021
Publisher Noirledge Publishing, Nigeria
Format Paperback

Where the Light Enters You

by Servio Gbadamosi

Where the Light Enters You is a collection of 51 intriguing poems that interrogate various aspects of the African everyday experience-love, culture, music, and governance. Traversing time and space, the personal and public, the poet weaves verses of commitment that bristle with passion and hope for a troubled continent. Like his debut collection, Gbadamosi evokes the voices of older poets while remaining true to his own aesthetic program and vision.

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About the Author

Servio Gbadamosi

Poet and publisher, Servio Gbadamosi is a recipient of the 2016 Ebedi International Writers Residency fellowship where he co-wrote the chapbook, A Half-Formed Thing, with fellow residents, Ehi'zogie Iyeoman and Ikechukwu Nwaogu. His poetry collection, A Tributary in Servitude, won the 2015 Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted runner-up for the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Gbadamosi's works have appeared online as well as in print journals, newspapers and anthologies such as Nigerian NewsDirect, ANA Review 2017, ANA Review 2018, ANA Review 2019, SOROSOKE: A Collection of #EndSars Poems, Crossroads: Anthology of Poems in Honour of Christopher Okigbo, Fela's Re-arrangement: A Collage of the Poetic Biography of Nigeria's Folkhero of Afrobeat Music and The Sky is Our Earth: Anthology of Fifty Young Nigerian Poets. He coedited the poetry collections, The Promise this Time was Not a Flood: A Sevhage Anthology of Flood Poems and Salt of the Heart: Anthology of Poems for Nigeria at 50. He currently heads Noirledge Publishing, an independent publishing house with a focus on mainstreaming new voices in contemporary Nigerian writing.