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    A Booktiful Love
    A Booktiful Love
    A Booktiful Love
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    A Booktiful Love

    By Tolu' A. Akinyemi

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    A Booktiful Love is a collection of poems that deal with the entirety of human experience in its various forms. Didactically rich, the poems explore ideas ranging from love, relationships, and patriotism to marriage, morality, and many other concepts pertinent to daily living.


    Given its variety of themes, what unifies the poems

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Roaring Lion Newcastle LTD
    Release dateMay 8, 2020
    ISBN9781913636012
    Author

    Tolu' A. Akinyemi

    Tolu' A. Akinyemi (also known as Tolutoludo & Lion of Newcastle) is a multi-award-winning author in the genre of poetry, short story, children's literature and essays.Tolu' has been endorsed by Arts Council England as a writer with "exceptional talent."He is a co-founder of Lion and Lilac, a UK-based arts organization and sits on the board of many organizations.

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      A Booktiful Love - Tolu' A. Akinyemi

      A

      BOOKTIFUL

      LOVE

      by:

      Tolu’ A. Akinyemi

      First published in Great Britain as a softback original in 2020

      Copyright © Tolu’ A. Akinyemi

      The moral right of the author has been asserted.

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the author, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      Edited by The Roaring Writer Ng.

      Typesetting by Word2Kindle

      Cover Design by Rewrite Agency

      Published by ‘The Roaring Lion Newcastle’

      ISBN: 978-1-913636-00-5

      Email:

      tolu@toluakinyemi.com

      author@tolutoludo.com

      Website:

      www.toluakinyemi.com

      www.tolutoludo.com

      Dedication

      To the booktiful ones who built a home in my heart–Olabisi, Isaac & Abigail Akinyemi. Our love isn’t perfect, or without limitations. But the foundation is booktiful–thanks for this booktiful love, our booktiful love.

      Contents

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      Poems

      One

      Isolation

      Bury Me in a Library

      Defective

      It’s Okay Not to feel Okay

      Frozen

      Writers

      Write for Rights

      Wave

      Sleep

      Your Dreams Are Valid

      Neophyte

      Warrior

      Trial and Error

      Cultural

      A Date With Hope

      Life Lessons

      Two

      Pertinent Questions

      Say No to Xenophobia

      I Belong to Nobody

      Aso the Death Post

      Erect a Statue for Me in Imo

      Twenty Twenty-Three

      Saints

      Cold Room

      Strange Dance of Chickens

      Ignoramus

      Defunct

      Body Language

      Revolution Now

      Three

      A Booktiful Love

      Let Him Go

      Beauty & Brains

      Beauty & Priceless

      Beauty & Queening

      Beauty & Fierce

      Beauty & Virtuous

      Charmazing

      Nostalgia

      Fairytale

      Portrait of a Fake Friend

      Lockdown

      Grief

      Divorce

      Loud Voices

      Grief in Solitude

      Starved

      Foundational Mess

      A Booktiful Love Story

      Bio

      Author’s Note

      ALSO, BY Tolu’ A. Akinyemi from ‘The Roaring Lion Newcastle’

      Dead Lions Don’t Roar

      (A collection of Poetic Wisdom for the Discerning

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