Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2025 #Sappho his 'tormented intelligence and romantic

his 'tormented intelligence and romantic versatility'

Kelly Michels has heeded Robert Lowell’s injunction to ‘say what happened’ and her report is fashioned in a series of remarkable poems

giving room to states of flux and flow in the body

The space around objects

Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola<br><b>Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Spring 2025</b> #Sappho his 'tormented intelligence and romanticStrange Beach is the debut collection from poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola. Intimate and erotic, ecological and philosophical, the poems in Strange Beach illuminate the body as a porous landscape across which existential dramas, filial fractures, and sexual reckonings occur. The collection ventures across the same 'Atlantic Ocean' as Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen', which is the same 'Atlantic Ocean' in Lowell's 'Life Studies', to reveal a