Lion of Newcastle- Tolu' Akinyemi

Multiple Award-Winning Poet Tolu’ A. Akinyemi – The Lion of Newcastle announces North-East Spoken Word Tour for Autumn 2023

Multiple Award-winning poet and storyteller Tolu A. Akinyemi, aka The Lion of Newcastle, will be touring selected venues across the North East this Autumn. Come along and see him perform pieces from...

Four Poems | Tolu’ A. Akinyemi

Structures of Criminality We are breaking the structures of criminality one brick at a time. We are obidient to deconstructing the brigandage that is our eternal reality. We are dismantling the status...

Three Poems | Tolu’ A. Akinyemi

Fading Cloud The morning is a cloud Overshadowing the gloom of night’s dark. The morning is a growing tree Spreading fearless wings. The morning dew Washes gales of intense sorrow. Pour libations...

With his Twentieth Published Work “The Morning Cloud is Empty” Multiple Award-Winning Newcastle-Based Nigerian Author reaches Incredible Milestone.

Notable Nigerian poet, essayist, storyteller and children’s author, Tolu’ A. Akinyemi’s latest collection of poems, ‘The Morning Cloud is Empty’ adds the prodigious Nigerian talent to the illustrious rank of Authors with...

Multiple Award-Winning Author releases first collection of poems for Young People

Notable poet, essayist, storyteller and children’s author, Tolu’ A. Akinyemi’s latest collection of poems, ‘You Need More Than Dreams’ is a collection of didactic and instructive poems targeted at young people and...

Two Poems | Tolu’ A. Akinyemi

Ruinous Charred bodies lie in the minefields of their ruinous exit. We are nested in this web of flaming fire. These deaths echo abomination and sacrilege. Charred bodies are immersed in convoluted...

The Lion of Newcastle, Tolu’ A. Akinyemi is set to Release Four Books at The Lit and Phil Newcastle

Join author extraordinaire, the Lion of Newcastle, Tolu’ A. Akinyemi at his books signing and reading event at The Lit & Phil on the 8th of September 2022. At this event, Tolu’...

Multi-Award-Winning Author releases collection of poems ‘A god in a Human Body’ to kick-start the New Year

Written by the incredibly talented Children’s author, storyteller, essayist and poet Tolu’ A. Akinyemi, ‘A god in a Human Body’ explores themes of spirituality, divinity and the enormous power that we possess...

Stage set for Lagos Poetrython Spoken Word Academy

All is set for the Lagos Poetrython Spoken word academy which will be held in Lagos. A gathering of griots and bards and also a platform for the exhibition of surreal works...

Empty Rooms |Tolu’ A. Akinyemi|Poetry

My family house is a house of flying daggers, of rivalries and bitter wars that eat deep, scarring every memory. Some say blood is thicker than water. Turn it on its head...

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