{"title":"Oluwaseun Olayiwola","description":"\u003cp\u003eOluwaseun Olayiwola crafts vivid explorations of identity, place, and memory through poetry and prose. His work weaves together personal narrative and collective experience, inviting readers into landscapes both familiar and strange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, his books often blend lyrical imagery with poignant reflections, offering fresh perspectives on culture, community, and the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"strange-beach-by-oluwaseun-olayiwola-9781804271551","title":"Strange Beach","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrange Beach\u003c\/em\u003e is the debut collection from poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola. Intimate and erotic, ecological and philosophical, the poems in \u003cem\u003eStrange Beach\u003c\/em\u003e illuminate the body as a porous landscape across which existential dramas, filial fractures, and sexual reckonings occur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection ventures across the same 'Atlantic Ocean' as Claudia Rankine's \u003cem\u003eCitizen\u003c\/em\u003e, which is the same 'Atlantic Ocean' in Lowell's \u003cem\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, to reveal a queer consciousness deeply steeped in poetic traditions of nuanced confession and moving abstraction. \u003cem\u003eStrange Beach\u003c\/em\u003e is geological in its accumulation of images, emotions, and landscapes that stack, revolve, and eschew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting work transmutes messages to the mind of the reader with a feeling of cosmic intuitiveness, as emotion and intellect grapple and become forged. \"No one can follow you here \/ not having to become something else,\" observes one speaker, in this collection that reimagines how we love, grow, travel, and most of all, change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47616452624620,"sku":"9781804271551","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781804271551-strange-beach.jpg?v=1778459377"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/oluwaseun-olayiwola.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}