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To Bee a Honey is simply every woman's truth and with this collection, we encounter a poet and story teller who does not only revel in the new-found confidence of her scribbling but also in the lush glow of her womanhood. What immediately strikes one upon perusing this work is its aesthetic beauty. This is not limited to the arresting visual images drawn up on the pages but also the arrangement of the lines; with carefully-planned alignments birthing creatively-shaped poems, Oyin gives us a collection that is a true remarkable sight. Making use of the modern advantages which the new-age document-formatting applications have brought, she stylizes the poems in ways that add to the overall allure of this compendium, heightening its experiential quality simultaneously. - Kanyinsola Olorunnisola Founder of Sprinng Literary Movement Review of To Bee a Honey on Bella Naija
#LiterallyWhatsHot: Exploring God’s Femininity & Enthroning Black Women – A Review of Oyindamola Shoola’s “To Bee a Honey” “To Bee a Honey” is a heavy meal. Lots of poems on love, some on religion and race, and a sizable number of pieces on perception, self-discovery as a human and as a woman. - Onu-Okpara Chiamaka READ MORE |
MORE PRAISE FOR TO BEE A HONEY
Oyin becomes a singer of sweet tunes with the bees in her. Her voice is yet distinctive out of several other voices. As a new migrant to the United States of America, she is faced with the stark realities of transnationalism, migration and culture shock. For me, the cover page was the magic that walked into the deepest part of my hearts as a graphic artist.
- Kehinde Badiru
Author of I know Why Your Mother Cries
This book is ripe with Oyindamola's transcendence into a mother of self-realization. From the well thought out title, to the depth of the poems chosen to create this uncanny ensemble. It is the metamorphosis of her becoming. So woman!!!
Olanrewaju Oranyeli, Writer
When poetry pleases the eyes as much as it tasks the mind, then I can't have enough of it... that is what Oyindamola Shoola achieves in To Bee a Honey. She is daring, artistic, and delightfully inspiring.
Kukogho Iruesiri Samson, Poet
Author of I Said These Words
Author of What Can Words Do?
A witty collection that subtly dips in and out of reading like a sweet lullaby and pinching you behind the ears with its message.
Tolu Akinyemi
Author of Your Father Walks like a crab
Author of Funny Men Cannot Be Trusted
This is a flawless display of everything poetry should be, simple words that hit you, in just the right spot with maximum impact.
Pyrokardia
Author of A Beautiful Mess
Author of Broken Wishbones & Empty Spaces
Oyindamola has taken mere words and made them music, turned them into songs you can somehow only hear by reading. If any one hopes to ever understand love, they must first know how love speaks, how it laughs, and smiles when no one is watching. Love is shy but Oyindamola’s poetry takes you by the hand and brings you close enough to observe but not be seen, close enough to understand that love is not blind - it is only myopic.
Oluremi K. Oluseye
Performance Poet, Film maker
Founder of The GODfactor Movement
It was an amazing read. I enjoyed every line of it! This isn’t like more complex poetry that would keep you wondering if the poet wrote it for herself alone.
Seye Kuyinu
Author of Dates and all the things I tell you
Author of Things I Wanted To Tell You in Other Words
This anthology is a uniquely written one. It is not written for all the poets out there but for a class of poets who would read in between the lines and decipher the message therein.
Mr. Njoku, C. J
Author of Specific Approach to the Study of Literature & Literary Concepts
Coauthor of Simplified Approach to Literature-in-English for Senior Secondary Schools
This collection proves how poetry's scope isn't limited to heart or soul, but can interest aesthetics, mind, and critical conscience as well. Yes, you'll find feelings, and even doubts, frailties, and pains, inevitable in any honest soul-digging. But the Author's poetry is imbued with such a deep, lucid, untamable analysis of the mechanisms behind our way to be, whether as individuals or as elements of bonds and society, to provide a challenging and thought-provoking reading experience on many levels.
Daniele Bergamini,
Poet, Human, believer, helper, thinker, creative
Author of Chants for Love
This is a great piece that translates into our core and strips us bare, with every flip of each page. To Bee A Honey transcends a work of art into realism. Just like Rupi Kaur, Oyindamola Shoola did an exquisite work by being blunt, emotionally burning sensations, not holding back, words skillfully weaved and put together and powerful thoughts inked legibly; a metamorphosis of a woman who is unashamedly owning her truth. To Bee A Honey is every woman's truth and also, every woman's blessing.
Ebukun Gbemisola Ogunyemi
@Ibukunwrites
To speak of Oyindamola’s To Bee a Honey, I had to first strip myself of the approach I had started out with. This anthology is perfectly written, the thoughts and syntax woven delicately; like the silk threads of a spider’s web. One barely gets through the first poem with the warmth she brings, and that ghost of a smile that begins to linger around the edges of your lips.
An exceptional feature is the fluid way the pieces evolve from one theme to another without being disjointed, letting her parade a range of emotions and opinions without portraying them strongly, allowing us to feel her in her words.
Heych Essien, Writer
Hersey97.WordPress.com
These words don't need sound to call for attention. The poems in To Bee a Honey are like wind on a day nothing seems to be blowing.
I enjoyed every piece here and I feel like I should own some of Oyindamola’s thoughts.
Patience Lawal, Poet
Author of Sea Shells
- Kehinde Badiru
Author of I know Why Your Mother Cries
This book is ripe with Oyindamola's transcendence into a mother of self-realization. From the well thought out title, to the depth of the poems chosen to create this uncanny ensemble. It is the metamorphosis of her becoming. So woman!!!
Olanrewaju Oranyeli, Writer
When poetry pleases the eyes as much as it tasks the mind, then I can't have enough of it... that is what Oyindamola Shoola achieves in To Bee a Honey. She is daring, artistic, and delightfully inspiring.
Kukogho Iruesiri Samson, Poet
Author of I Said These Words
Author of What Can Words Do?
A witty collection that subtly dips in and out of reading like a sweet lullaby and pinching you behind the ears with its message.
Tolu Akinyemi
Author of Your Father Walks like a crab
Author of Funny Men Cannot Be Trusted
This is a flawless display of everything poetry should be, simple words that hit you, in just the right spot with maximum impact.
Pyrokardia
Author of A Beautiful Mess
Author of Broken Wishbones & Empty Spaces
Oyindamola has taken mere words and made them music, turned them into songs you can somehow only hear by reading. If any one hopes to ever understand love, they must first know how love speaks, how it laughs, and smiles when no one is watching. Love is shy but Oyindamola’s poetry takes you by the hand and brings you close enough to observe but not be seen, close enough to understand that love is not blind - it is only myopic.
Oluremi K. Oluseye
Performance Poet, Film maker
Founder of The GODfactor Movement
It was an amazing read. I enjoyed every line of it! This isn’t like more complex poetry that would keep you wondering if the poet wrote it for herself alone.
Seye Kuyinu
Author of Dates and all the things I tell you
Author of Things I Wanted To Tell You in Other Words
This anthology is a uniquely written one. It is not written for all the poets out there but for a class of poets who would read in between the lines and decipher the message therein.
Mr. Njoku, C. J
Author of Specific Approach to the Study of Literature & Literary Concepts
Coauthor of Simplified Approach to Literature-in-English for Senior Secondary Schools
This collection proves how poetry's scope isn't limited to heart or soul, but can interest aesthetics, mind, and critical conscience as well. Yes, you'll find feelings, and even doubts, frailties, and pains, inevitable in any honest soul-digging. But the Author's poetry is imbued with such a deep, lucid, untamable analysis of the mechanisms behind our way to be, whether as individuals or as elements of bonds and society, to provide a challenging and thought-provoking reading experience on many levels.
Daniele Bergamini,
Poet, Human, believer, helper, thinker, creative
Author of Chants for Love
This is a great piece that translates into our core and strips us bare, with every flip of each page. To Bee A Honey transcends a work of art into realism. Just like Rupi Kaur, Oyindamola Shoola did an exquisite work by being blunt, emotionally burning sensations, not holding back, words skillfully weaved and put together and powerful thoughts inked legibly; a metamorphosis of a woman who is unashamedly owning her truth. To Bee A Honey is every woman's truth and also, every woman's blessing.
Ebukun Gbemisola Ogunyemi
@Ibukunwrites
To speak of Oyindamola’s To Bee a Honey, I had to first strip myself of the approach I had started out with. This anthology is perfectly written, the thoughts and syntax woven delicately; like the silk threads of a spider’s web. One barely gets through the first poem with the warmth she brings, and that ghost of a smile that begins to linger around the edges of your lips.
An exceptional feature is the fluid way the pieces evolve from one theme to another without being disjointed, letting her parade a range of emotions and opinions without portraying them strongly, allowing us to feel her in her words.
Heych Essien, Writer
Hersey97.WordPress.com
These words don't need sound to call for attention. The poems in To Bee a Honey are like wind on a day nothing seems to be blowing.
I enjoyed every piece here and I feel like I should own some of Oyindamola’s thoughts.
Patience Lawal, Poet
Author of Sea Shells
