Description

TITLE: I SAID THESE WORDS
AUTHOR: KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON
GENRE: POETRY
NO. OF PAGES: 88
YEAR: 2015

In I SAID THESE WORDS, Kukogho in his undeniably unique versification style, succeeds in wrapping his opinions around the mind of the reader. It is easy to be drawn into this book – with its beautiful form and rainbow of themes, presented with fresh, original metaphors. He writes:

I say these words…

                                         for those who feign deafness

                                         in a noisy world…

listen!

for you cannot mute the world

                                         by feigning deafness

Kukogho Iruesiri Samson is a Nigerian writer, communications professional, and publishing entrepreneur. Kukgoho has authored four poetry books: What Can Words Do (2013); I Said These Words (2015); Words of Eros (2017); We Who Sowed Hurt & Beaded Pains (2017); and a novel, Devil’s Pawn (2020). His awards include the 2018 GT Bank Dusty Manuscript Prize, the 2017 ANA Prize for Fiction (first runner-up), the 2016 Nigerian Writers Award (NWA) for Best Poet in Nigeria, and the 2012 Orange Crush Prize for Poetry. He also featured on NWA’s list of 100 Most Influential Nigerian Writers Under 40 in 2016, 2017 and 2018. He is the CEO of Authorpedia Publishers, an assisted-authorship publishing firm, and the editor-in-chief of CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE, a quarterly literary publication. The Abuja-based writer is known for his work with young Nigerian writers and the promotion of Nigerian writing.