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Abstract
This essay examines the predicament of the poor in New Nigerian poetry in order to investigate the challenges they face as well as articulate how they can be overcome. The essay focuses on the poems of seven (7) Nigerian poets drawn from an anthropology of poetry entitled 25 New Nigerian Poets. The qualitative research method is used, relying on textual analysis to expose the message. Postcolonial otherness theory is also used to open the poems to critical interpretation. The findings are that the poor are victims of society and the economy. It concludes that the poor are socially emasculated and economically strangulated as portrayed in 25 New Nigerian poets.
