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​Tukur writes from a coastal axis in Lagos Island, South Western Nigeria. He studied Political Science in the University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

Some of his poems have been published in several anthologies and journals including Lunaris Review, Libretto Magazine, The Quills, Echelon Review, Art Of Peace Anthology, Z Publishing Arizona (Best Emerging Poets 2019), Best New African Poets 2019, Ngiga Review and elsewhere. 

He won the Brigitte Piorson Monthly Poetry Contest (March 2018) and shortlisted in many others, including the Collins Elesiro Poetry Prize (June 2019).

In 2019, his debut poetry chapbook, A Boy's Tears On Earth's Tongue was published.

His poems are inspired by existence, ruins, memories, identity and the inherent crisis, creation and desires.
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