Nothing But The Poem - Gboyega Odubanjo

The poetry community was shocked and saddened when the much-loved young poet Gboyega Odubanjo died last year. Since then a full length collection of his poetry titled Adam has been published posthumously by Faber; and the Gboyega Odubanjo Foundation for low-income Black writers has been established to honour his legacy.

His poetry hit many raw nerves among readers. Fellow poet Luke Kennard praised his work as 'Deep, funny, thought provoking - a powerful evocation of culture and family with the most assured phrasing and imagery and confident formal innovation.'

Our usual podcast host Samuel Tongue - via an online meet up of the Friends of the SPL group - discussed in depth two of Gboyega's poems: Brother and The Garden