Tares Oburumu’s collection of poems is a brief history of Syma, the neglected oil-producing region of Nigeria he came from, mixing music, religion, and political critique to evoke pasts and futures.
Tares Oburumu lives in Yenagoa, the south side of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. He is the winner of the Green Author Prize for poetry. His works have appeared in Connotation Press, Bluepepper, Woven Tales Press, Afrocritik, and Eunoia Review, among many other journals.