Adedayo Agarau Explained

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]

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] Agarau was shortlisted for the Brunel African Poetry Prize in 2022, recipient of the Stanley Award for International Research and the Robert Hayden Fellowship.[22] [23] Agarau curated Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry and the Nigerian National Poetry Prize.[24]

Bibliography

Awards and nominations

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Unserious Collective – the unserious collective . 2022-10-11 . en-US.
  2. Web site: Inside a Nigerian Literary and Arts Hub. Open Country. 13 September 2021.
  3. Web site: IceFloe Press . 2022-10-11 . IceFloe Press . en.
  4. Book: Memento : an anthology of contemporary Nigerian poetry. 2020. Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau. 978-1-6781-6155-2. Thetford Center, Vermont. 1281795687.
  5. Web site: FOR BOYS WHO WENT BY ADEDAYO ADEYEMI AGARAU – AUTHORPEDIA . 2022-10-11 . en-US.
  6. Web site: 2022-02-17 . The State of the African Poetry Book Fund: A Conversation with Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes, by Erik Gleibermann . 2022-10-11 . World Literature Today . en.
  7. Web site: NEW-GENERATION AFRICAN POETS (SABA) . 2022-10-11 . Poetry Society of America . en.
  8. Web site: Book Review Adedayo Agarau's The Arrival of Rain Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera . 2022-10-11 . brittlepaper.com.
  9. Web site: Finding the Boy: A Review of Adedayo Agarau's 'The Arrival of Rain' . 2022-10-11 . Yes, Poetry . en-US.
  10. Web site: 2021-03-25 . The Origin of Name by Adedayo Agarau Review—Narrating Grief . 2022-10-11 . Open Country Mag . en-US.
  11. Web site: Foundation . Poetry . 2022-10-10 . Adedayo Agarau . 2022-10-11 . Poetry Foundation . en.
  12. Web site: Adedayo Agarau – ANMLY . 2022-10-11 . en-US.
  13. Web site: 2022-02-14 . Ibadan, by Adedayo Agarau . 2022-10-11 . World Literature Today . en.
  14. Web site: Agarau . Adedayo . 2020-11-18 . The 2020 Industry Prize, 3rd Place Winner: Bad Dream With My Grandmother's Stroke by Adedayo Agarau Frontier Poetry - Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry . 2022-10-11 . Frontier Poetry . en-US.
  15. Web site: 2022-09-15 . Short Essay on Music Adedayo Agarau . 2022-10-11 . Isele Magazine . en.
  16. Web site: trampset . 2021-03-12 . Voidness and Other Things That Were in the Beginning and Beyond: A Review of Isaura Ren's... . 2022-10-11 . Medium . en.
  17. Web site: 2021-01-24 . On Processing Grief: A Review of Nome Patrick's "The Body Walks Through Grief Towards God" – A Review Essay by Adedayo Agarau w/ A Digital Collage by Robert Frede Kenter . 2022-10-11 . IceFloe Press . en.
  18. Web site: 2022-09-15 . Darlington Chibueze Anuonye in Conversation With Adedayo Agarau . 2022-10-11 . Isele Magazine . en.
  19. Web site: nantygreens . 2019-02-04 . Conversation with Adedayo Agarau, author of For Boys Who Went - Interviews . 2022-10-11 . Nantygreens . en-US.
  20. Web site: Litvo . 2021-08-18 . New Contemporary Poets are Inventing Structures ADEDAYO ADEYEMI AGARAU . 2022-10-11 . Litvo . en-US.
  21. Web site: 2021-12-29 . Adedayo Agarau's Poetic Heart and Vision for African Poetry - Afrocritik . 2022-10-11 . en.
  22. Web site: Meet the recipients of the 2022 Stanley Award for International Research International Programs - The University of Iowa . 2022-10-11 . international.uiowa.edu . en.
  23. Web site: Writers' Conference Scholarships . 2022-10-11 . Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway . en-US.
  24. Web site: Homepage . 2022-10-11 . Nigerian Poetry Prize . en-US.
  25. Book: Agarau, Adedayo. The arrival of rain : poems. 2020. Stephanie Gibart. 978-1-952055-00-3. [Place of publication not identified]. 1202418965.
  26. Book: New-generation African poets : a chapbook box set. 2020. Kwame Senu Neville Dawes, Chris Abani, Sadia Hassan, Jamila Osman, Michelle K. Angwenyi, Nadra Mabrouk. 978-1-61775-816-4. Brooklyn, New York. 1133127726.
  27. Web site: Shenoda wins Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. 2021-12-16. news.unl.edu. en.
  28. Web site: 2020-11-18. The 2020 Industry Prize, 3rd Place Winner: Bad Dream With My Grandmother's Stroke by Adedayo Agarau Frontier Poetry - Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry. 2021-12-16. Frontier Poetry. en-US.
  29. Web site: 2020-07-10. Winners of the 2020 Emerging Poet Prize!. 2021-12-16. Palette Poetry. en-US.
  30. Web site: 2019-06-23. Winners Of Sevhage Literary Prizes. 2021-12-16. Mammoth Spectrum Media. en.
  31. Web site: 2018-07-19. CONGRATULATIONS: THE #BABISHAI2018 SHORTLIST. 2021-12-16. BABISHAI NIWE POETRY FOUNDATION. en-US.
  32. Web site: admin. 2017-12-12. MESIOYE, AGARAU, OGWIJI WIN ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2017. 2021-12-16. Words Rhymes & Rhythm. en-US.

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