Oluwaseun Olayiwola

Fitzcarraldo Editons stuns in new photos, seemingly hard-launching new era Pre-order: mailchi.mp/fitzcarraldoed…

“The sand is not sand but law” - Oluwaseun Olayiwola reads from Strange Beach @FitzcarraldoEds at our @NCLA_tweets Spring showcase

My latest @BuzzMagWales #poetry reviews column! Featuring: @itsamule @FitzcarraldoEds @ness_owen #ArachnePress #ShaneMcCrae @CorsairBooks #AngeMlinko @FaberBooks buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-feb…

Our events programme starts up again for 2025 this Thursday with Oluwaseun Olayiwola reading from his debut collection STRANGE BEACH alongside Camille Ralphs There's only a handful of tickets left - grab one now if you'd like to come: lrb.me/1p3

Join us on 27th Feb at Newcastle Uni's Culture Lab to celebrate the PBS Spring 2025 Selections with NCLA. We'll toast our new PBS Selector - award-winning writer Yomi Ṣode - and launch Strange Beach by Oluwaseun (Seun) Olayiwola - the very first title in Fitzcarraldo’s new poetry series Book your free ticket here > eventbrite.co.uk/e/1221235932549 #Newcastle #poetry

Our Spring 2025 Listings are NOW LIVE at poetrybooks.co.uk! Follow the link to find out more about our 8 exciting Spring Selections as well as many, many more poetry titles publishing Jan-March 2025: poetrybooks.co.uk/collections/sp… And don't forget, members get 25% off Books!

Happy publication day to @itsamule's STRANGE BEACH! ✨ This debut poetry collection wrangles the various selves we hold and perform—across oceans and within relationships—told through a queer, Nigerian-American lens. Grab your copy here now: softskull.com/books/strange-…

“There wasn’t love but there was what love becomes—“ —Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Strange Beach (@softskull) …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/olayi…

"I didn’t come to writing with any shame about looking exactly like the people whose work was important to me." @itsamule chatted with @The_Rumpus about the connection between poetry and choreography and his forthcoming book STRANGE BEACH. therumpus.net/2025/01/15/the…

better, i think, when i work on a poem, to believe i have something to learn rather than something to say

Announcing the Poetry subscription | 25% off all subscriptions with the code SUBSCRIPTIONS25: mailchi.mp/fitzcarraldoed…

January releases: PRECARIOUS LEASE and STRANGE BEACH | Upcoming events mailchi.mp/fitzcarraldoed…

Come to @LRBbookshop on 30th Jan, please, to hear @itsamule reading from his debut collection @FitzcarraldoEds and chatting about it with me: eventbrite.co.uk/e/oluwaseun-ol…

TOday's Featured Poet: Oluwaseun (Seun) Olayiwola is a poet, critic, choreographer and performer based in London. His choreographic work has been presented at the V&A, The Place, The Central School of Ballet, and Studio Voltaire.

Today's Featured Poem: "Crustacean" by Oluwaseun Olayiwola (@itsamule), from the Summer 2024 issue of Poetry London (@Poetry_London). Read here: poems.com/poem/crustacea…

In this brilliant chat with @KristieFre70035 Maiya and I discuss brand new poems from the likes of @ilya_poet @itsamule and my personal favourite, 'The Gift of Apollo' by @ae_stallings open.spotify.com/episode/0dlVkm…

'What transpires is a hyper-contrapuntal dance of discord, birth, death.' Oluwaseun Olayiwola (@itsamule): High-energy styles and titans of contemporary dance #Echobox=1732726100" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">the-tls.co.uk/arts/dance/rad…

Some y’all don’t conceptually understand that the first line of a poem is an apple that’s fallen from a tree thus the rest of the poem is an effort to reconstruct the tree from which it fell — AND IT SHOWS 🥸

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‘smudged like a ghost losing its yell’ - from ‘Strange Beach’ by Oluwaseun Olayiwola @itsamule

@SilSuf @jitterbugwrites @CarolineBirdUK same

@jitterbugwrites @CarolineBirdUK @itsamule I don’t really understand that line