Adedayo Agarau

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Adedayo Agarau is Nigerian poet, essayist and art administrator. Agarau is a member of the UnSerious Collective. He is the editor-in-chief of Agbowo , an African literary magazine. He was a founding editor at IceFloe Press, Canada as the New International Voices editor and African Chapbook Acquisition manager. Agarau curated and edited Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Adedayo is a Cave Canem Fellow and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University '25.

Work

Agarau is the author of three poetry chapbooks: For Boys Who Went, 2016, The Origin of Name which was selected for a chapbook box edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani in 2020, and The Arrival of Rain, published in 2020 by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. [5] [6] [7] [8] His writing is leading conversations on the possibilities of a wave of the new generation Nigerian writers and have attracted wide review from magazines like Open Country, YesPoetry, and AfroCritik. [9] [10] [8]

Agarau's poems have been featured in online and print literary journals including Poetry Magazine , World Literature Today, Iowa Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Society of America, Frontier Poetry, Lolwe, Olongo Africa, Anmly, TheShore Poetry, Giallo Lit. [11] [12] [13] [14] His essay has been published in Isele Magazine, Trampset, Icefloe Press and YesPoetry. [15] [16] [17] He has been profiled or interviewed on international platforms including Africritik, Africa in Dialogue, Literature Voices, Nanty Greens, Libretto, Poets in Nigeria, Isele Magazine , Splash FM, Shamsrumi. [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] Agarau was shortlisted for the Brunel African Poetry Prize in 2022, recipient of the Stanley Award for International Research and the Robert Hayden Fellowship. [23] [24] Agarau curated Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry and the Nigerian National Poetry Prize. [25] [4]

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  2. ↑ "Inside a Nigerian Literary and Arts Hub". Open Country. 13 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "IceFloe Press". IceFloe Press. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  4. 1 2 3 Memento : an anthology of contemporary Nigerian poetry. Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau. Thetford Center, Vermont. 2020. ISBN   978-1-6781-6155-2. OCLC   1281795687.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ↑ "FOR BOYS WHO WENT BY ADEDAYO ADEYEMI AGARAU – AUTHORPEDIA" . Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  6. ↑ "The State of the African Poetry Book Fund: A Conversation with Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes, by Erik Gleibermann". World Literature Today. 2022-02-17. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
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  26. ↑ Agarau, Adedayo (2020). The arrival of rain : poems. Stephanie Gibart. [Place of publication not identified]. ISBN   978-1-952055-00-3. OCLC   1202418965.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  27. ↑ New-generation African poets : a chapbook box set. Kwame Senu Neville Dawes, Chris Abani, Sadia Hassan, Jamila Osman, Michelle K. Angwenyi, Nadra Mabrouk. Brooklyn, New York. 2020. ISBN   978-1-61775-816-4. OCLC   1133127726.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
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