Adedayo Agarau
@adedayoagarau.bsky.social
The Years of Blood, Fordham Press ‘25 Wallace Stegner Fellow ‘25. Cave Canem Fellow. Editor-in-Chief, Agbowo Magazine. Rep: Salma Begum (Greyhouse Literary Agency)
@hanvanderhart.bsky.social's Larks; @adedayoagarau.bsky.social's Years of Blood; & Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Last Saturday, I was named the winner of The Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature.
@adedayoagarau.bsky.social 's latest work, The Years of Blood, documents disturbing realities of living in Ibadan in the nineties. Watch: youtu.be/MeGmN7tz0Dc Or listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0DmU... #literarypodcast #theyearsofblood #bookpodcast #journeyoftheart #authorinterviews
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Chicago Review of Books@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 12mo ago"The physical demands of survival barely give room for the self to reflect, process, remember, or write." KÁNYIN Olorunnisola's interview with @adedayoagarau.bsky.social on his new book “The Years of Blood” (@fordhampress.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/02/t...
"The physical demands of survival barely give room for the self to reflect, process, remember, or write." KÁNYIN Olorunnisola's interview with @adedayoagarau.bsky.social on his new book “The Years of Blood” (@fordhampress.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/02/t...
The Unsettling Hand of Grief: An Interview with Adedayo Agarau About "The Years of Blood" - Chicago Review of Books
I first met Adedayo Agarau in 2015 at a spoken word event in Ibadan, the southwestern Nigerian city we both grew up in. I remember watching his poetry, technically excellent on the page, come alive th...
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V.C. Myers@vcmyers.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe Years of Blood by @adedayoagarau.bsky.social has arrived & it's magnificent! My cell pic doesn't do the cover justice. I'm so happy for & proud of my dear old friend & former co-editor. I'm thankful our paths crossed when it did, so I could watch him reach for the stars.
@adedayoagarau.bsky.social documents years of ritual killings in Nigeria and the trauma of returning to the street he grew up on.
The Necessity of Return: On Years of Ritual Killings in Nigeria
In a dream on one of my first nights in Iowa, I was weeping into a river. The river was flowing swiftly, washing away many people. In the logic of the dream, I knew their faces—they were the same c…
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"Now the trumpet of your body. Now my mouth full of air." — @adedayoagarau.bsky.social in @narrativemag.bsky.social www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems...
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Writers, if you will be at AWP & want a free headshot (from an amateurish photographer: me), please send me a dm. Totally free. ❤️🥹
📚 The #LagosReview hails #AdedayoAgarau 's debut poetry collection, #TheYearsofBlood, as a "haunting horrorscape," praised by celebrated poet #NiyiOsundare. Full review: linktr.ee/fordham_press; visit www.fordhampress.com to order your copy today! #NewPoetry #ReadUP @adedayoagarau.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce that "THE YEARS OF BLOOD," my debut poetry collection, is now available for pre-order. Cover art by the brilliant @olawaleololade_. Coming September 2, 2025 from @FordhamPress. Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-ye… Website: adedayoagarau.com
Thrilled to announce I've been selected for the 2025 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Poetry Cohort! debutiful.net/2025/03/12/a...
Announcing the 2025 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Poetry Cohort
Poets & Writers has announced the 2025 poetry cohort for Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early career writers. The program gives selected writers an opportunity to work with an expe…
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Thanks to @OpenCountryMag for including "The Years of Blood" in their Anticipated Books of 2025 list. I am excited about all the books on this list and continually stunned by the support "The Years of Blood" continues to receive. Almost cover readyyy. opencountrymag.com/anticipated-...
Anticipated Books of 2025 : Open Country Mag
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Laila Lalami, Goretti Kyomuhendo, Chisom Okafor, Itiola Jones, Adedayo Agarau: the anticipated books of 2025.
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If you can read this, I wrote a book—”The Years of Blood”, and it chronicles the true coming-of-age narrative of human trafficking in Nigeria. Well, human part trafficking is at an all-time high in Nigeria right now, and I guess it makes my book timely. You'll pre-order, yeah? #WritingCommunity
Book marketing is so hard. I don't even know where to begin. Authors that have gone through this process, what advise do you have for debut poets like me? #WritingCommmunity
Has anyone written a list of books coming out this year focusing exclusively on African literature? Most of the lists flying around don't include enough African books.
Where do I even begin to integrate myself into this wonderful community?
I'm so happy “The Years of Blood” is on @iselemagazine.bsky.social’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025. iselemagazine.com/2025/01/03/e...
Editor’s Choice: 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Last year, we published a list of books we were excited to read and eventually enjoyed. The list featured Chigozie Obioma; Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond; ‘Pemi Aguda, whose debut collection, Ghostroots, w…
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Thank you for sharing, Michael.
Matthew Nisinson@mnisinson.bsky.social · 2y agoThese two poems by @adedayoagarau.bsky.social in Lolwe are fantastic! A taste: “a bird outside our house is singing of the way a flower opens everything is Babylon until a wall, like my mother, is crumbling” lolwe.org/two-poems-ad...
These two poems by @adedayoagarau.bsky.social in Lolwe are fantastic! A taste: “a bird outside our house is singing of the way a flower opens everything is Babylon until a wall, like my mother, is crumbling” lolwe.org/two-poems-ad...
Two Poems - Adedayo Agarau | Lolwe
Two poems by Adedayo Agarau.
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I need to try yam again this year. I’m sure God created that log of wood for something.
