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I had planned to write
the editorial this quarter on the life and
passing of Michael Jackson - the greatest
entertainer the world has ever known or will
ever know, a fine songwriter whose every
physical movement was mesmerising and
dumbfounding poetry. But I thought better of
it. I am a Michael Jackson fan, but I don't
know if you are.
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"...other people have written and become
successful writers due to my encouragement.
In terms of my poems I'd hope people might
recognise a sense of authenticity which
transcends time."
-
Bob
Beagrie in conversation with Nnorom
Azuonye
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If you don't like your
life, why not change it? In fact abandon it
altogether - husband and all and head to
another country. Laura Solomon writes about
making a great leap of faith in
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Nigeria's E.C. Osondu
won the Caine Prize for African Writing 2009
with Waiting.
Nnorom Azuonye reviews
the story.
E.C.
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Poetry Competition
(July 2009) Results:
First Prize:
Coffee
Second Prize:
Enemy Funeral
Third Prize:
The God of
Allotments.
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Clare Saponia
The Optimists
A long while before,
when they were silent
for the first time;
when disorder was precise
and regime obedient
to the point of pedantry,
dawn still crept in
at the end of a night,
like a spy.
Like a hero.
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Reuben
Death gave him wings / To soar
above the cynical smiles of ingratitude / Let your
eternal presence once again reinitiate / These
arthritic craftsmen / who run calloused palms
/ Atop the dusty furnaces of abandoned foundries
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POETRY COMPETITION |
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The Sentinel Literary Quarterly
Poetry Competition (October 2009)
RESULTS:
First Prize:
Akinlabi Peter "Moving"
Second Prize:
Katie Metcalfe
"Pumpkin Seeds"
Third Prize:
Mandy Pannett "Through
Dust"
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