Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2025 #Sappho born and raised in Coventry

born and raised in Coventry

2008) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was followed by Imagined Rooms (Salt

giving room to states of flux and flow in the body

Kelly Michels has heeded Robert Lowell’s injunction to ‘say what happened’ and her report is fashioned in a series of remarkable poems

her new book focuses more acutely on the themes of death and grief

Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola<br><b>Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2025</b> #Sappho born and raised in CoventryStrange 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