Recently I have been thinking about what a poet leaves behind. Since late last year I have been in contact with the family of a young woman regarding how best to remember their late daughter’s work. She died aged eighteen, [...]

Dzifa Benson’s debut collection Monster is inspired by the life of Sarah ‘Saartjie’ Baartman – a South African Khoekhoe woman who was brought to England in 1810 and displayed in freakshows across Europe for her large buttocks. Our knowledge of [...]

Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic, choreographer, and performer based in London. His poems have been published and anthologised in the Guardian, The Poetry Review, PN Review, Oxford Poetry, Tate, bath magg, fourteen poems, Re·creation: A Queer Poetry Anthology (2021), and Queerlings. As a Ledbury Poetry Critic, he has written reviews for the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry London, the Poetry School, Magma, Poetry Birmingham, and the Poetry Book Society. Shortly before the release of his debut collection, Strange Beach – published in January 2025 by Fitzcarraldo (UK) and Soft Skull (US) – reviews editor Isabelle Baafi interviewed him about his depictions of landscape and the body, which interrogate notions of time, identity, and connection.