Abubakar Sidi's Poet of Dust

The highly acclaimed book of Abubakar Sidi, The Poet of Dust was first published in its incubatory stages as a digital chapbook. It is now a full collection of maverick poems.

Syncity NG, a leading culture media recently reviewed the book, thus;

The first thing that strikes you once voyaging between the pages is the peculiar unorthodoxy, in both language and structure, employed to birth the book. Another striking feature is the fascination with old masters, particularly of the Persian and Arab sorts, which perhaps informs the grain of unorthodoxy that the book bears: A poet of this time—as the term “new poet” doesn’t exactly capture the meat in describing Sidi because he’s been on the block—echoing the spirit of old masters in his verse. And within that unorthodoxy is the tendency for the crass and the unhinged. How crass, and unhinged, and unorthodox, can the title of a poem be further than: Poetry in the Republic of Love or A Goddamn Poem about Goddamn things & Similes Vomited by a Motherfucking Goddamn Bard? —a title which quickly brought to my mind Omotara James’ poem title: “GenderMotherFucker”. The truth, or my truth, or the truth as I perceive it, is that: Sidi is a lunatic. And like all poets reaching for peace, order, and other elements of noble aspirations in our collective humanity, Sidi’s lunacy, though poetic, is in both the character of his wordings and his message. How else does one in one breath allude to Arabic (Koranic) piety, and in another, openly embrace the stark exhibition of pornographic imagery?

Recently, Fairchild hosted Abubakar to a conversation and book reading event at Patabah Bookstore, Surulere.

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