Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Autumn 2024 czech poetry This beautiful hardcover edition showcases

This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lana’s typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography

Who is sketching this life and who is watching it being sketched

’ – Wislawa Szymborska

and though the poems are imbued with James Caruth’s quiet acceptance of the way things are

Galleymore hones in on cuteness and its relationships to hyper-capitalism and environmental crisis to produce a deliberately queasy ecopoetics

Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo<br><b>Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Autumn 2024</b> czech poetry This beautiful hardcover edition showcasesOn 21 September 2001, the torso of a black boy was discovered in the River Thames, near Tower Bridge in central London, clothed only in an orange pair of girls shorts. Given the name Adam by police officers, the unidentified boy was between four and eight years old. What comes next cannot without a story of water and offering. The sun shines and we gather because the river allows it. Na from clap dem dey enter dance. We enter with, and as, Adam.