Adedayo Agarau is Nigerian poet, essayist and art administrator. Agarau is a member of the UnSerious Collective. He is the editor-in-chief of Agbowo, an African literary magazine. He was a founding editor at IceFloe Press, Canada as the New International Voices editor and African Chapbook Acquisition manager. Agarau curated and edited Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry.[1][2][3][4]
Agarau is the author of three poetry chapbooks: For Boys Who Went, 2016, The Origin of Name which was selected for a chapbook box edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani in 2020, and The Arrival of Rain, published in 2020 by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press.[5][6][7][8] His writing is leading conversations on the possibilities of a wave of the new generation Nigerian writers and have attracted wide review from magazines like Open Country, YesPoetry, and AfroCritik.[9][10][8]
^ abcMemento : an anthology of contemporary Nigerian poetry. Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau. Thetford Center, Vermont. 2020. ISBN 978-1-6781-6155-2. OCLC 1281795687.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
^"FOR BOYS WHO WENT BY ADEDAYO ADEYEMI AGARAU – AUTHORPEDIA". Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^"The State of the African Poetry Book Fund: A Conversation with Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes, by Erik Gleibermann". World Literature Today. 2022-02-17. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^"NEW-GENERATION AFRICAN POETS (SABA)". Poetry Society of America. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^ ab"Book Review | Adedayo Agarau's The Arrival of Rain | Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera". brittlepaper.com. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^"Finding the Boy: A Review of Adedayo Agarau's 'The Arrival of Rain'". Yes, Poetry. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^"The Origin of Name by Adedayo Agarau Review—Narrating Grief". Open Country Mag. 2021-03-25. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^"Ibadan, by Adedayo Agarau". World Literature Today. 2022-02-14. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^Agarau, Adedayo (2020-11-18). "The 2020 Industry Prize, 3rd Place Winner: Bad Dream With My Grandmother's Stroke by Adedayo Agarau | Frontier Poetry - Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry". Frontier Poetry. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^"Short Essay on Music | Adedayo Agarau". Isele Magazine. 2022-09-15. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^trampset (2021-03-12). "Voidness and Other Things That Were in the Beginning and Beyond: A Review of Isaura Ren's..." Medium. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^"On Processing Grief: A Review of Nome Patrick's "The Body Walks Through Grief Towards God" – A Review Essay by Adedayo Agarau w/ A Digital Collage by Robert Frede Kenter". IceFloe Press. 2021-01-24. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^The Arrival of Rain - Adedayo Agarau with Michael Olatunbosun #BooksSplash, retrieved 2022-10-11
^"Darlington Chibueze Anuonye in Conversation With Adedayo Agarau". Isele Magazine. 2022-09-15. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^nantygreens (2019-02-04). "Conversation with Adedayo Agarau, author of For Boys Who Went - Interviews". Nantygreens. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^Litvo (2021-08-18). "New Contemporary Poets are Inventing Structures | ADEDAYO ADEYEMI AGARAU". Litvo. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^"Adedayo Agarau's Poetic Heart and Vision for African Poetry - Afrocritik". 2021-12-29. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^"Meet the recipients of the 2022 Stanley Award for International Research | International Programs - The University of Iowa". international.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
^Agarau, Adedayo (2020). The arrival of rain : poems. Stephanie Gibart. [Place of publication not identified]. ISBN 978-1-952055-00-3. OCLC 1202418965.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^New-generation African poets : a chapbook box set. Kwame Senu Neville Dawes, Chris Abani, Sadia Hassan, Jamila Osman, Michelle K. Angwenyi, Nadra Mabrouk. Brooklyn, New York. 2020. ISBN 978-1-61775-816-4. OCLC 1133127726.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
^"Shenoda wins Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets". news.unl.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
^"The 2020 Industry Prize, 3rd Place Winner: Bad Dream With My Grandmother's Stroke by Adedayo Agarau | Frontier Poetry - Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry". Frontier Poetry. 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
^"Winners of the 2020 Emerging Poet Prize!". Palette Poetry. 2020-07-10. Retrieved 2021-12-16.