Location: Nigeria
Member Since:
July 25, 2019
Samuel A. Adeyemi
Biography
Samuel A. Adeyemi is a writer and editor from Nigeria. A Best of the Net Nominee and Pushcart Nominee, he is the winner of the Nigerian Students Poetry Prize 2021. His chapbook, Rose Ash, was selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the New-Generation African Poets chapbook box set, 2023. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, Strange Horizons, Chestnut Review, Agbowo, Isele Magazine, Brittle Paper, Lolwe, and elsewhere.
Where to find Samuel A. Adeyemi online
Twitter: @samuelpoetry
Books
Heaven Is a Metaphor
by Samuel A. Adeyemi
Price:
Free!
Words: 7,560.
Language:
English.
Published: March 4, 2023
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Categories:
Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
“Adeyemi isn’t speaking out of the guilt of abandoning faith, nor out of regret, but out of love, care and painful understanding that his trial at attaining religious and, ultimately, spiritual independence will be as painful to his people as their unacceptance of his personality is to him.” —Ancci
Anxiety and Things that Shatter
by Samuel A. Adeyemi
Price:
Free!
Words: 9,200.
Language:
English.
Published: July 25, 2019
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Categories:
Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
(5.00 from 1 review)
Anxiety and Things that Shatter is a collection of poetry about an endless journey through anxiety, pain and the process of healing.
The poems featured in this collection are a mix of traditional and spoken word poetry, all selected carefully from 2017 - 2019.