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Tolu Oloruntoba won the 2021 Governor General’s Award for Poetry for his first full-length collection of poems, The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest, 2021) that focuses on the juxtaposition of disease and dis-ease, the immigrant experience and social injustices.
Oloruntoba’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and his debut chapbook, Manubrium (Anstruther, 2019) was a bpNichol Chapbook Award finalist. His poetry has appeared in Harvard Divinity Bulletin, PRISM International, Pleiades, Columbia Journal Online, Obsidian, The Maynard and the Humber Literary Review.
Oloruntoba was born in Nigeria and spent his early career as a primary care physician. He now lives in Surrey and works as a project manager for a health authority.
BOOKS:
Manubrium (Anstruther, 2019) 9781988699462
The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest, 2021) $19.95 9781989287729
Each One a Furnace (McClelland & Stewart, 2022) $19.95 9780771051586
[BCBW 2023]
Oloruntoba’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and his debut chapbook, Manubrium (Anstruther, 2019) was a bpNichol Chapbook Award finalist. His poetry has appeared in Harvard Divinity Bulletin, PRISM International, Pleiades, Columbia Journal Online, Obsidian, The Maynard and the Humber Literary Review.
Oloruntoba was born in Nigeria and spent his early career as a primary care physician. He now lives in Surrey and works as a project manager for a health authority.
BOOKS:
Manubrium (Anstruther, 2019) 9781988699462
The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest, 2021) $19.95 9781989287729
Each One a Furnace (McClelland & Stewart, 2022) $19.95 9780771051586
[BCBW 2023]
