
Tolu Oloruntoba
@toluini
Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and IT product person (in that order).
New Collection: UNRAVEL (McClelland & Stewart, 2025).
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"The amulet of meritocracy has failed, obviously. / This is the junta of happenstance." Tolu Oloruntobaโs (Tolu Oloruntoba) ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐๐ (Palimpsest Press) is a collection that dismantles the illusion of fairness and reckons with randomness,


A poet, a lawyer (also a poet) and a philosopher-theologian had very nice things to say about my deconstruction book. Iโm very grateful to Eduardo C. Corral (he/him/his), Dwayne Betts, and James K.A. Smith for their kindness.



Here's Jenny Berkel of Little Wren Books reading "A Good Reason," from UNRAVEL, better than I ever will. (IG link) instagram.com/reel/DIEZZNqxGโฆ

Today on GET LIT! Two poets in the studios. Chris Bailey and I discuss his latest, Forecast: Pretty Bleak, then Tolu Oloruntoba and I discuss his newest, Unravel. 1230pm 93.3/cfmu.ca or on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/5e8rdwk2 Tolu Oloruntoba Chris Bailey


Check out the New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) to listen to me talk with Griffin & Giller Prize winning poet Tolu Oloruntoba about bonsai trimming, the afterlife of landfill diapers, & his stunning new collection, Unravel (McClelland & Stewart, 2025) newbooksnetwork.com/unravel #poetry


LISTEN/DOWNLOAD our latest show on CIUT 89.5 FM Hollay Ghadery (she/her) talks to Tolu Oloruntoba โUnravelโ Griffin Poetry Prize & poet Chris Bailey โForecast: Pretty Bleakโ PenguinRandomHouseCA LISTEN/DOWNLOAD HERE: ciut.fm/howl/
