Niyi Osundare Poetry Audio Online
Here is Africa master-poet, Niyi Osundare reading "Invocations of the Word" and other poems...
http://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/invocations-word-12573#.WM_XN7GZOYV
Here is Africa master-poet, Niyi Osundare reading "Invocations of the Word" and other poems...
http://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/invocations-word-12573#.WM_XN7GZOYV
A special interactive event on World Poetry Day (Tuesday, March 21, 2017) is dedicated to Niyi Osundare’s ideas and poetry under the title “Poetry, Politics and Society.”
As part of World Poetry Day activities, Lyrikline-Berlin, the House of Poetry will publish a set of Niyi Osundare’s poetry online, with audio version and also in German translations.
The exemplary poet is 70 years old today, and I must return to the market square to plant a song.
The gardener of redolent words, the warrior of light, is three scores and ten years today on Mother Earth. I cannot survive the luxury or mystery of silence. Fire in the bushels of barbarians, scourge of tyrants and traitors, the predictable voice against the conclaves of corruption, he of million metaphors, neither tired nor tiring of speaking truth to crookedness in high and low places.
1. Programme Address: http://grenoble-lanef.fr/spip.php?article171=
Funder: The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program
Research field(s): Science and Engineering