Browsing: Uboho Bassey

Poets talk and write with inspirations from certain tangibles and intangibles — from within and without.

But before we could go far, an instinct prompted me to make sense of her responses – a revealing friendly chat.

But even that book is written with the touch of poetry. What does poetry mean to you? It was a question she probably knew I would ask

 But a poet? She looks too simple, harmless, and so ordinary to belong to that tiny kingdom of mystery writers. How did she get here? Who initiated her? These questions rocked my mind as I looked into her babyish face that afternoon.