09/01/2024
We are set to publish Tares Oburumu's second full length collection of poems, "A Brief Ship Story and other Poems" in March.
A Brief Ship Story and Other Poems is a collection of poems which deals with the cycle of the history of black people. A meditation which tries to point how black people in many parts of Africa, particularly Nigeria are still stuck in the same chain force which drove some of them to embrace the self-defeating ethos which led to slavery and colonialism. It is a defiant act in an attempt through language to awaken the kind of consciousness that can result in true self-reflection.
Tares Oburumu is a poet and essayist. His works have appeared on Connotation Press, IceFloes International Journal, Dawn Review, Loch Raven Review, Euinoia Review, Woven Tales Press, Afapinen, Afrocritik, Ngiga Review, Agbowo, Praxis, Kalahari, AfricanWriter, Agonist, YabaLeft Review, Bluepepper and elsewhere. He is the author of seven chapbooks of poems: Exit Doors, A Brief History of July 1 and 2, A Breath of Me, Frameshifts, 18 Fragments of My Love for the Eastern Shores, Someday I will Be the Shape of my Story and Chatham House. He is a two time nominee for Pushcart Poetry Prize, and the inaugural winner of the GAP Poetry Prize. He won the prestigious Sillerman prize for African Poetry, 2022.
