”There is a lunatic in every town” set to hit bookstores

Basiru Sunday Amuneni,  who goes with the stage name ‘Bash ‘ is set to release his new book titled ‘There is a lunatic in every town.’ Bash the co-editor of ‘Through the eyes of innocence,’ a collection of poetry written by children under 15 years, is the only Nigerian-based poet who performed at the Presidential […]

Basiru Sunday Amuneni,  who goes with the stage name ‘Bash ‘ is set to release his new book titled ‘There is a lunatic in every town.’

Bash the co-editor of ‘Through the eyes of innocence,’ a collection of poetry written by children under 15 years, is the only Nigerian-based poet who performed at the Presidential Inauguration  of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.

Bash who gained considerable recognition as a performance poet said he started as a page poet as such writing his book was not as tedious.

"I started off as a page poet, before moving to performance poetry.  I started writing since 1996" he explained.

He said the book ‘There is a lunatic in every town’ is has 45 poems and its divided into three parts Resonance, Intimacy and the human condition. It talks about the issues of life, love , death, human conditions,  generally the totality of our existence as humans."

The title of the book which will be unveiled in the last week of February in Abuja came about by an experience he had.

He said, while travelling he saw a bold "Do not urinate here" sign and despite this, people still went there to do their business this made him write a poem ‘Lunatic on the loose’ which later metamorphosed to the title of his new book.

In 2015 bash released his performance poetry album titled ‘Freedom’.