Emergent Poetry of Northern Nigeria within Digital Space

The author of this article presents an analytical study a poetry forum at kanoonline.com, which targets Northern Nigerian readership. reflects emerging literature as it sets out to shape its own standards literary creativity, transmission, circulation, well communication reality and perception in cyberspace. Poetic texts are created digital medium, means that itself inexhaustible source for the rapid circulation unlimited distribution texts. emergence text unit ensures immediacy audience, simultaneously generates intensive reader feedback. Based on analysis selected topics, discusses metatextuality being essential nature text. posting text, is obviously completed product individual creation, serves starting point further creative process. agent textual reworking audience different interpretations given piece. What we witness switch from process impersonal collective deconstruction, engendering metatexts. Most abovementioned forum’s experimental poetic formations can hardly be captured, identified, comprehended or interpreted terms both content form several reasons. virtual may viewed awkward, chaotic, confusing. And contents texts, while definitely reflecting African modernity, other hand, determined by subjectively portrayed day-to-dayness, freely displaying open mundane experiences fragmentary momentary way. Forum — performance, publication, reading, altogether within space has explosive effect, unpredictable, uncontrolled, chaotic momentary. Moreover, often makes strong reference certain immediate environments everyday life most urgent alive very time performance perception. Thus, capturing broad context author/reader interaction, creation enables one read formal properties inherent genre web-forum poetry.