Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2025 David Inshaw the Fawn Press anthology Elements

the Fawn Press anthology Elements

I long for a full stop

In 1992 he was a UK Arts Council Visiting Writer-in-Residence at the South Bank Centre

and explores how we can use our creativity to break this cycle

We're still here in the silence

Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola<br><b>Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2025</b> David Inshaw the Fawn Press anthology ElementsStrange Beach is the debut collection from poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola. Intimate and erotic, ecological and philosophical, the poems in Strange Beach illuminate the body as a porous landscape across which existential dramas, filial fractures, and sexual reckonings occur. The collection ventures across the same 'Atlantic Ocean' as Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen', which is the same 'Atlantic Ocean' in Lowell's 'Life Studies', to reveal a