Tolu Oloruntoba’s The Junta of Happenstance has been picked as one of the seven finalists for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize
, which won the 2021 Governor General Literary Award, is about: “conflict — inter-personal, societal, historical, and mental — but not for its own sake. It battles with the gloom in order to vanquish it.Article content
Oloruntoba’s poetry has appeared in, or is forthcoming, in publications including Harvard Divinity Bulletin, PRISM International, Columbia Journal and Canadian Literature. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His short fiction has appeared in translation in Dansk PEN Magazine. The judges in their citation for Oloruntoba described The Junta of Happenstance as a “dazzling” debut collection.
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