While I Yet Live / Gboyega Odubanjo

A Poetry School Book of 2019

‘Like O’Hara, Odubanjo goes on his nerve: erasing Enoch Powell to ‘all but come’, compiling playlists for uncommitted crimes, going to bed ‘with all the strangers who got my name right’. Reader, there has never been a better time to become a Gboyega Odubanjo fan.’ Jeremy Noel-Tod

‘I read Gboyega’s work and I am taken aback by his storytelling and rawness of language.’ Yomi Sode

Gboyega Odubanjo’s voice draws you in, intrinsically contemporary, grounded in something timeless. The poems in While I Yet Live beat to a luxurious musicality; prayers and confessions, these are poems to read to yourself aloud.

With an enviable lightness of touch, he explores themes such as race, mortality and the fallibility of faith—

          i believing foolish in the heat of it
          assumed sweat was communion
                    fever god given.

PAPERBACK      ISBN: 978-1-9997147-6-5     PUBLISHED 20TH FEBRUARY 2019