Oluwaseun Olayiwola

Strange Beach forthcoming from @FitzcarraldoEds & @SoftSkull | poet + critic + choreographer | rep: @thestormboy |

[Oluwaseun Olayiwola @itsamule]

Fitzcarraldo Editons stuns in new photos, seemingly hard-launching new era

Pre-order: https://t.co/N8O7thxS9Q

[Fitzcarraldo Editions @FitzcarraldoEds]

📘POETRY COVER REVEAL📘 We are thrilled to reveal the covers for our poetry list, with the first three titles now available to pre-order on our website: https://t.co/pvShdZO6Hc

[PoetryBookSoc @PoetryBookSoc]

“The sand is not sand but law”

- Oluwaseun Olayiwola reads from Strange Beach @FitzcarraldoEds at our @NCLA_tweets Spring showcase

[✨Mab Jones✨ @mabjones]

My latest @BuzzMagWales #poetry reviews column!

Featuring:
@itsamule @FitzcarraldoEds
@ness_owen #ArachnePress
#ShaneMcCrae @CorsairBooks
#AngeMlinko @FaberBooks

https://t.co/m8BbqOIawG

[London Review Bookshop @LRBbookshop]

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: https://t.co/aQQzI3yPNX

[PoetryBookSoc @PoetryBookSoc]

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 > https://t.co/3TmXVo9zff

#Newcastle #poetry

[PoetryBookSoc @PoetryBookSoc]

Our Spring 2025 Listings are NOW LIVE at https://t.co/FjRBjzufeJ! 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: https://t.co/jEtfgTsJch

And don't forget, members get 25% off Books!

[Soft Skull Press @softskull]

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: https://t.co/hDgtbIzKHv

[Open Books: A Poem Emporium @openpoetrybooks]

“There wasn’t love but there was what love becomes—“

—Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Strange Beach (@softskull) https://t.co/V8lJuUpRfi

[Soft Skull Press @softskull]

"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.

https://t.co/l4LAduNSNb

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

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

[Fitzcarraldo Editions @FitzcarraldoEds]

Announcing the Poetry subscription | 25% off all subscriptions with the code SUBSCRIPTIONS25: https://t.co/E8khC7SFZ9

[Fitzcarraldo Editions @FitzcarraldoEds]

January releases: PRECARIOUS LEASE and STRANGE BEACH | Upcoming events https://t.co/cT9kM2jBDX

[Camille Ralphs @CamilleRalphs_]

Come to @LRBbookshop on 30th Jan, please, to hear @itsamule reading from his debut collection @FitzcarraldoEds and chatting about it with me:
https://t.co/NSwrRJNl2A

[Poetry Daily @Poetry_Daily]

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.

[Poetry Daily @Poetry_Daily]

Today's Featured Poem:

"Crustacean" by Oluwaseun Olayiwola (@itsamule), from the Summer 2024 issue of Poetry London (@Poetry_London).

Read here:
https://t.co/M1xUDg0Aqt

[Joe Santamaria @Santamaria97Joe]

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

https://t.co/MrhhrYxqle

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'What transpires is a hyper-contrapuntal dance of discord, birth, death.'

Oluwaseun Olayiwola (@itsamule): High-energy styles and titans of contemporary dance
https://t.co/6zFk4xYPna

[Oluwaseun Olayiwola @itsamule]

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 🥸

[Oluwaseun Olayiwola @itsamule]

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[Caroline Bird @CarolineBirdUK]

‘smudged like a ghost
losing its yell’

- from ‘Strange Beach’ by Oluwaseun Olayiwola @itsamule

[Caroline Bird @CarolineBirdUK]

‘smudged like a ghost
losing its yell’

- from ‘Strange Beach’ by Oluwaseun Olayiwola @itsamule

[Oluwaseun Olayiwola @itsamule]

@SilSuf @jitterbugwrites @CarolineBirdUK same