07/03/2026
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I am thrilled to announce that my debut book of poems, ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐, will be released in May 2026 by Fairchild Media Publishing.
The book comprises 55 poems thematically structured into four sections. Section One: Political Ponderings; Section Two: Razors of Race, Balm of Belonging; Section Three: Medicine for the Mind; and Section Four: A Playful Seriousness.
One of the bookโs paratextual elements is a superbly reasoned foreword by Professor Olusegun Adekoya. Readers will also discover the motivations for the poems, as well as a requisite reflection on my writerly process, in the bookโs afterword.
The book will be available for purchase in Nigeria, Canada, the US, and just about anywhere. More information about this point soon.
I remain truly grateful to everyone who has aided me in making the vision for this work a reality.
๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐:
โThe sheer range and depth of Ademola Adesola in this volume of preternatural poems demand awe of the reader. The lines throb with passion and they plunge deep into the heart of the matter. A splendid debut from a splendid poet.โ
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฅ๐, author of ๐โ๐ ๐๐โ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ก๐
โ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ is a consciously crafted book by Ademola Adesola, a young man who bears witness to neocolonial dysfunction in Nigeria, his land of birth, and racial discrimination in Canada, where he attains his educational goal and realizes his teaching career ambition. He hews down a forest of falsehoods, holds aloft few stubborn trunks of truth, embraces all that support life, and fights all that diminish it. He sings, โThe rhythmic orbits of my tongue / are ashes and tonics / they sting and soothe.โ
๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ง ๐๐๐๐ค๐จ๐ฒ๐, author of several books of poems, including ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ก๐
โIn this formidable poetry collection, Ademola channels the incandescent fury of a voice that refuses to be stifled. Through these galvanizing and raging poems, he delivers a searing indictment of a nation he characterizes as a โharmattan haze and a world that mirrors its many fractures. Armed with the cerebral precision of a seasoned scholar and the unyielding grit of a political observer, he dissects the systemic erosion of his homelandโs economic, social and educational foundations. Simultaneously, he offers a poignant meditation on the immigrant experience, capturing the weight of living perpetually under the relentless, scrutinizing gaze of a foreign lens. This is poetry as a manifesto for a world unaware it is broken and a thunderous wake-up call for those in it.โ
๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐จ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐จ, author of ๐ถ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐๐ข๐๐
โIn ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐, the summons of lingual sensations is heeded by the meticulous craft of a poet keenly attuned to the world's unyielding realities. The reader is drawn to the very threshold where unflinching language sculpts the cadences of war and politics, love and the everyday.โ
๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฬ๐ค๐ฎฬ, author of ๐ด ๐โ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
โWhen poetry comes as a dance, it no longer takes the poet into the silent grove where the wall has no ears. As a public dance of lyrics, it gathers spectacles, reveling at the turns and twists the body makes in tune with the rhythm of drums or discoes. Here, Ademola Adesolaโs debut collection is audible in poems after poems enacting frantic tongue-dance lyricism. This dance is not the entombed scribbles of Soyinka, not the oracleโs kernel of Okigbo; it is the sharp and piercing pasquinade of all bards of the sharp tongue who danced or are dancing with lyrical eloquence: Niyi Osundare, Olu Obafemi, Femi Fatoba, Voltaire, Simon Armitage, Tanure Ojaide, Langston Hughes, and many others, intent on making the world think, with polythievians and racist overloads writhing in the multiple satiric dance of an important poet on the horizon.โ
๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ, literary critic, poetry theorist, poet, and author of ๐ด๐๐ ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐ข๐โ ๐กโ๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐
โIn ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐, Ademola Adesola crafts a fearless and thought-provoking poetic tapestry that journeys across continents of conscience and identity. From the sharp edges of political and religious critique to the tender intimacies of love, doubt, race, memory, and belonging, this collection is a bold conversation between the personal and the global.
โWith a voice that is at once lyrical and unflinching, Adesola confronts corruption, colonial legacies, racism, faith, and the contradictions of homeland while also offering meditations on resilience, everyday wisdom, and the fragile beauty of human connection. Whether dissecting power with razor-sharp satire or soothing the reader with reflective affirmations, these poems pulse with urgency and humanity.
โRooted in lived experience yet expansive in vision, ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ is a poetic dance of fire and balmโprovocative, compassionate, and deeply memorable. It is a collection for readers who seek poetry that questions, comforts, and awakens the mind all at once.โ
๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐๐, author of ๐โ๐ ๐โ๐๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐
โ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ is stubborn, witty, writing against the grain. Half psalm, half street song, Ademolaโs words cling and will not leave. Anรญkรบlรกpรณ at heart, he cuts through the noise, language slapping stillness. Take after take, he commands the silence and makes it speak.โ
๐๐ฉ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฉ๐จ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐จ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ, author of ๐โ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐ก
โ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ is a scathing, unflinching indictment of Nigeriaโs social, political, and educational institutions, rendered in a style that is at once lyrical and relentless. The poems traverse a landscape of systemic decayโfrom โMind Murderers,โ which lambasts universities for stifling intellectual growth, to โHurray to Impunityโ and โLawbreakers,โ which expose corruption, moral rot, and the betrayal of public trust. Each piece is charged with moral outrage, employing vivid imagery, repetition, and rhetorical intensity to hold a mirror to societyโs failings.
โYet beneath the fury lies a deep concern for the human condition: the thwarted potential of students, the impoverishment of justice, and the erosion of civic responsibility. Collectively, the works read less as mere social commentary and more as a prophetic witnessโa call to awareness, reflection, and, ultimately, accountability.โ
๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ก๐ข, author of ๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ก๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐
