NEW POETRY BOOK

  

This is my latest poetry collections titled A FLAT WORLD. It consists of poems that are political in nature and may be of interest to global politics. Ismael Bala, a poet and critic and lecturer in Literature as the Bayero University Kano, Nigeria has this to say about the new book.

More than any other recent collection of poems, Yusuf Adamu’s A Flat World shows that the nexus between poetry and politics is not limited to such situations where the poet becomes politically involved in an explicit way. The book underlines the fact that all cultural expression is

and can be related to the social and political context in which it is conceived and produced.    

Taking a cue from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s famous saying that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”, the poet has further cemented his place in the contemporary Nigerian poetic scene that poets are somewhat ahead of their society in anticipating new mode of political perception and consciousness. The new perception is here crystallized seamlessly and creatively into the overall metaphor of these poems.