A poetic exploration of the cyclical philosophy of dismantling - and remaking - the self from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Tolu Oloruntoba. Moving and inventive, Unravel deals with the multiple ways in which a person and world can be deconstructed, and what could happen in the aftermath.

Unravel: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Oloruntoba, Tolu

Genre Fiction

MCCLELLAND STEWART

From the author of The Junta of Happenstance, here is abrilliant new collection of poems—a burning chronicle of passage and stillness and restlessness.\nEach One a Furnace explores (im)migration, diasporas, transience, and instability by following the behaviour, and abundant variety, of finches. The often-migratory birds in these poems typify the unrest, and inability to rest, that animate the lives of billions in the modern world. Out of the register of ornithology, themes of difficulty, adversity, and migrancy, urban ennui, and the psychic struggles of diasporic peoples take shape as those unable to be at rest in the world take to improbable flight.\nTrailing the global mobility of birds, in urban and non-urban settings, in historical and contemporary contexts, and through the metaphysical and concrete, Each One a Furnace is a chronicle of struggle within, and between, cultures.

Each One a Furnace: Poems

Personal, primordial, and pulsing with syncopated language, Tolu Oloruntoba?s poetic debut, The Junta of Happenstance, is a compendium of dis-ease. This includes disease in the traditional sense, as informed by the poet?s time as a physician, and dis-ease as a primer for family dysfunction, the (im)migrant experience, and urban / corporate anxiety. In the face of struggles against social injustice, Oloruntoba navigates the contemporary moment with empathy and intelligence, finding beauty in chaos, and strength in suffering. The Junta of Happenstance is an important and assured debut.

The Junta of Happenstance

Poetry

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Unravel: Poems

Each One a Furnace: Poems

The Junta of Happenstance