Unravel: Poems

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Griffin Poetry Prize winner Tolu Oloruntoba returns with an eagerly awaited new collection. Griffin Poetry Prize winner Tolu Oloruntoba returns with an eagerly awaited new collection. Moving, surreal, inventive, Unravel deals with the multiple ways in which a person and world can be deconstructed, and what could happen in the aftermath. We're like a third of the way through my film. It's not like we want it to end, but what twists could lurk beyond this So much has happened already. The stranger has come into town. Ten towns, ten times, angulated as if against a blizzard. The plot has been sold, bought, and lost, the house unbuilt. The actor has shone from ring settings as directed, a precious bed, metallic prongs wrapping for the cold. Characters, languages in public and private already divergent, conflicting; a widescreen ennui overtaking the resolution of the picture, seizing the government of the wallpaper, asking what now, what now, what now

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TOLU OLORUNTOBA was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, where he studied and practiced medicine. He is the author of two collections of poetry, The Junta of Happenstance, winner of the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General's Literary Award and Each One a Furnace, a Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalist. He gave the 2022 League of Canadian Poets Anne Szumigalski Lecture, and is a Civitella Ranieri fellow.