Nigeria, March 20 -- Award-winning investigative journalist Adeola Akinremi has published his debut poetry collection, "Scattered Ground."

The former Features Editor of THISDAY and World Bank Group consultant announced the publication in a statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES on Friday.

Mr Akinremi revealed that his writing sensibility was influenced by two literary giants: T.S. Eliot, the eminent Anglo-American Modernist poet of the early twentieth century, and J.P. Clark-Bekederemo, a pioneer of modern Nigerian and African literature.

He said, "J.P. Clark showed us that a journalist could also be the voice of a people's grief and aspiration. And Eliot, that great Modernist, reminded me that poetry must not flinch from the ruins of the...