Umar Sidi's Poetry Nerds

In Umar Abubakar Sidi's work, we have found the true soul of poetry and imagination

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Poet. Sketch. Paint. Make poetry
That will be read by the blind. Poetry
That will be heard by the deaf and dumb.
Poetry that will stir passion
In schizophrenics, lunatics, mental patients

— @UmarSidi11, The Poet of Dust

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MEETING OF BARDS: A Conversation Between Poets @UmarSidi11 and @JollyPaps1, published in The Poet of Dust

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Most poets possess secret bags where they hide their literary gimmicks, their mechanical devices of construction and composition and other tools of the trade. You know how these things work, they can be so intangible, sometimes a poet may be employing a device without even

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musical inflections and rhythm without a single unwritten line. Perhaps, I could call this potential poetry? Thereafter, I use words to place the images captured in the visual concretization stage on the mind scheme and voila, a poem is born.

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is dust the ultimate baggage in th acid ball of life?

Ancient Labour Room of Stars: A Review of Sidi's The Poet of Dust By CARL TERVER, appeared in The Poet of Dust

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Much of this is written with madness. Yet, even on such scale of madness, his reader has to be well-read- not just in the arts-to fully appreciate Sidi's soup-pot of surrealistic echolalia. In his oeuvre, Sidi revives the metaphysical persuasions of poetry not in currency today,

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trick, Sidi awakens your curiosity for wonder at the universe, applying the Socratic method of questioning as his poetics. When you take a breath of relief at the enc of the poem, the next poem "Book of Dust" starts the process all over: Al-Arshad,

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Poetry.

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THE POET OF DUST

Sidi’s work is a grand theorization of poetry, representative of the ideological motive of the emerging generation both in its experimentation with style, form, and language.

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Gathering of Spirits & Other Poems – Umar Abubakar Sidi https://t.co/4h1nEiPE7o

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Like Butterflies Scattered About by Art Rascals

By Umar Abubakar Sidi -- @UmarSidi11
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Hey you reading this, Nigerian poetry has evolved. We are presently witnessing the renaissance of imagination and creativity.

— Sidi's Nerds