Author: Idowu Odeyemi

Idowu Odeyemi is a Nigerian poet, essayist and writer of fiction. He was shortlisted for 2018 Nigerian Students Poetry Prize and the 2018 Christopher Okigbo Interuniversity Poetry Festival. He is the winner of the 2018 Ekiti Future Awards Prize for Literature. His works have appeared or are forthcoming on Tuck magazine, Kahalari review, Constellate journal, Praxis magazine, Opinion Nigeria among others.

My Living Dead Father

imageByIdowu OdeyemiJuly 17, 2019
“Every time I see my father I see Hell as a human.”   My body is a room. I hanged my father’s portrait On the wall of emotional traumas around my heart. My heart is the place, I learnt how to make use of pain as a recipe for excellence. His portrait hurts me every […]

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The Origin Of Morality

imageByIdowu OdeyemiJanuary 5, 2019
I will be happy if you kill meBecause you didn’t leave meto experience much of the tragedy of this world,At least I will not be blamed; it is you they will blame.The sin would be upon your soulBut before you kill me Let me know the truth:whether heaven is real or not.If it

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A Mother’s agony.

imageByIdowu OdeyemiDecember 28, 2018
Mother was born in the rift of time…The Elizabethans showed her the way;Took her shoes away,And left the Catholic Hymns in her mouth.Mother don’t know “Hymns do good”But shoes do take you places where barefoot can’t walk through.Mother thought Hymns are Eagles,Eagles that

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