Tackling present, future battles of life in Remilekun Jaiyeola’s In The Beginning There Was Poetry

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IN the beginning was poetry, the poems were with poets, and they were chanted by bards for entertainment at festivals. From the hawkers of goods at the market square to the town criers at the village square; from the commuters at the motor parks to the hunters of games in the bush, people savour the delight of poetry everywhere around them. Poetry is life since it offers aesthetic forms of expression that depict life in its variety and entirety.

‘In The Beginning There Was Poetry’ is a collection of 50 poems written by Remilekun Jaiyeola and published in 2022 by OAK Initiative, a publishing arm of OAK Foundation, a charity organisation aimed at supporting indigent students,…



Source: Nigerian Tribune