October 2020: Recipient 002, David Ishaya Osu
We are very excited to announce the second recipient David Ishaya Osu. David sent over a selection of his poems, and we both loved the care, shape and feeling of the words he put together, the way they feel like they rub up against each other.
Bio: David Ishaya Osu is a poet, memoirist, street photographer and wanderer. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies across Nigeria, Uganda, the UK, the US, Australia, Canada, India, France, Bangladesh, South Africa, Austria, and elsewhere. He is the poetry editor of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel, and a board member of Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation based in Uganda. David has an MA in Creative Writing (with distinction) from the University of Kent, and is the author of the poetry chapbook, When I’m Eighteen (2020). His life revolves around poetry, photography, architecture, wanderlust, jazz and other ordinary things.
Links below if you want to read his work, listen to it, or follow him online:
- Read Parts of my body
- Read Ripening
- Read Three poems from David Ishaya Osu
- Read Nine muses
- Read Kent, December, and Eleven, Eleven
- You can find David on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook
- You can listen to the poems read by David below, or on our Soundcloud