ORERE: SONGS OF A THOUSAND TIDES – ABIODUN BELLO

This poetry collection is a testament to the blend of influences on the poet from African orality to folk music, classical jazz and performance poetry. With muse informing the nature and character of the prevailing leitmotif, the strong literary stimulus and sensibility, the poems explore existential and humanist themes and issues bordering survival, transience, human morality, nature and dreams, among other unifying ideas. Orere is a philosophic rendition of reflections on the past, hovering over the present, with a long view into the future.