Abuja Art and Culture

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Jumoke Verissimo, a Lagos-based copywriter and journalist, read from her recently published poetry collection last Saturday, February 28, 2009, at the Pen and Pages in Abuja. The reading was organized by the Abuja Writers' Forum.

Other writers on Jumoke and her book:
"Whether confronted on the page or at your seat in a room where Jumoke is in one of her spellbinding performances, these poems are unrelentingly lively and lyrical. Hold them in your hands, in your heart, and let them be what she has created them to be: brilliant torchlight to guide you across previously unlit landscapes of memory, of murdered dreams, of desire, of guilt and of loss; territories from which you will not emerge untouched." - Tolu Ogunlesi

In this first collection of poems, Jumoke Verissimo remakes language beyond mere lyricism to uncover the roots of pain and the passion that will heal it. She addresses communal hurt as a personal fate that awaits an assured balm...This poet will travel." - Odia Ofeimun