Miasma

Miasma is a collection of 60 odd poems spanning eight chapters, amassed across forty years while trying to understand and organise life and its contrasting realities, frustrations and tragedies. From 'Of Pains & Plains' with focus on personal pains, disappointments, anxieties and anger, to 'Pubescent Agitations' - the oldest poems with its attendant blunt self-assuredness and the adorable naivety of a young African adult in a tumultuous developing nation.
Other chapters include 'Thoughts On Melancholy' and its dark contemplations of death and losses; 'Libations' with its racy adulation of a few of Africa's icons; the themes of anguish and sorrows in 'Elegies & Eulogies'; the raking matter of generational failings in 'Cudgels on Stony Moulds'; to 'Habitués' with its window open towards the highlights of four famous Nigerian cities; and finally, the poet's enduring love notes to his 'Person of Interest'.
Surely, Miasma is a collection primed to connect with readers who are interested in understanding the nuances, impulses, happenstances and sentiments of the Nigerian society in the past forty years...through the binoculars of an effusive and deliberate participant who lived actively in those climes.