![]() But few presses were publishing poetry and I wasn’t going to self-publish. I had been writing actively for about 17 years. Why did it take this long for you to bring out a collection? I think it was primarily an issue of timing between having a ready manuscript and a publisher willing to take the risk. Enjoy! Your first poetry collection, For Broken Men Who Cross Often, is coming some 15 years after you set out as a performance poet. ![]() In this interview with Daily Trust, Efe talks about, the poetry festival, the future of spoken word in relation to written poetry and what poetry means to him. He is also the director of the Lagos International Poetry Festival. His debut publication, “For Broken Men Who Cross Often” a book that comes with a CD of his recorded poems, is garnering rave reviews. In this Įfe Paul Azino is one of the outstanding spoken words poets making a name for himself in Nigeria. ![]() Decem04:06 ‘Protest poems are my responses to social injustice’Įfe Paul Azino is one of the outstanding spoken words poets making a name for himself in Nigeria.
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