Tade Ipadeola

Tade Ipadeola (born September 1970 in Fiditi, Oyo State) is a Nigerian poet who writes in English and Yoruba. He is a practising lawyer. In 2013 his poetry collection The Sahara Testaments won the Nigeria Prize for Literature.In 2009, he won the Delphic Laurel in Poetry for his Yoruba poem "Songbird" at the Delphic Games in Jeju, South Korea. Quotes It is an odd phenomenon in human nature that those who were recipients of human kindness when it mattered most sometimes become the most virulent misanthropes. From now on, the miles are marked with milestones of sapphire and a bush of flowers each a different fragrance, each a note from your music that wore a hat and spurred my wistfulness Maputo Olive by Tade Ipadeola Let young people in Nigeria understand how paper is made, how calligraphy has evolved into the digital age, how archives are maintained, how dance is scored, how music is noted, how kaolin becomes prized ceramic and how tiling can be part of monumental architecture. The emphasis has to shift to how things are done and merit has to have primacy. My first written poems were in English but I have written a couple of poems in Yoruba and I have translated some of my own poems into Yoruba from English. Feeling one’s way towards substance, emotionally and intellectually, I guess, is the touchstone for poetry. He talks about what inspired him to start writing poems Read poetry, and essays, and good fiction. Read collections of poetry, novels, the occasional biography and autobiography, short story collections and books of essays all interest me. He advises all poets have had many memorable days, with poetry. But the one I cannot ever forget was the day when I wrote, in chalk, a poem on the wall of my father’s house. As he was returning from the orchard at the backyard, he saw the poem. And then he asked me if I had written it. I told him it was my original composition. I thought I saw the shadow of a smile on his face then. This is perhaps one of those private moments I really enjoyed, my father was very good at telling good work from bad work. I want to keep saying the kinds of things that provoke thought and reflection in my readers. I want to create beauty and grace on the page and off the page. he spoke about his main drive as a poet. "I want to promote a legislation that a poem a day be read at every school assembly, whether the school is public or private. I want to actively campaign for a 1 percent dedicated public library fund at Local, State and Federal levels of government. The punishment for pilfering from that fund or for diverting it would be ten years imprisonment without an option of fine. I believe there wouldn’t be Boko Haram today if our founding fathers and mothers had done this at Independence. Affection springs from nothing. Mere carriage of the head may seduce the heart and win it. External links Category:Poets from Nigeria Category:1970 births Category:Living people