The anthology, Soil Unfurling from Stem, edited by British Sierra Leonean writer, Bridgette O James, opens with the winning entry from the 2025 poetry competition, ‘Prayer’ penned by the widely published poet: Osahon Oka (pictured). The book title comes from a line in his outstanding poem. Nigerian, Mr Oka is a Pushcart nominee whose poems have appeared in journals and magazines like Sontag Magazine, Kinpaurak, Poetry Sango-Ota, Feral Poetry, and elsewhere. He won the Visual Verse Autumn Writing Prize, 2022.