PUBLICATIONS
Poetry
2024
- “Litany in which my father returns home safely at night” | Wildness (December 2024)
- “the dark” | Ex Puritan (Issue 67, November 2024)
- “the abduction” | Poetry Foundation (November 2024)
- “Prelude, Christmas” | Poetry Foundation (November 2024)
- “Iowa, with Love” | Montreal International Poetry Prize (September 2024)
- “4 Poems” | Narrative Magazine (Finalist for the 16th Annual Narrative Prize, September 2024)
- “Doomsday” | Southern Indiana Review (Summer 2024)
- “Unfound” | Minnesota Review (Summer 2024)
- “TWO BOYS, THEIR MOTHER & THE FACE” | Statorec (April 2024)
- “3 Poems” | Poetry Wales (March 2024)
2023
- “Starvation” | Modron Magazine (Issue 3, December 2023)
- “2 Poems” | Action, Spectacle (June/August 2023)
- “We Daydreamed of Angels” and “Migration” | Transition (Summer 2023)
- “On Joy & other poems” | The Muse UNN, (February 2023)
- “The Book of Cain” | PoetLore (January 2023)
- “Wishbone” | Tab Journal—Chapman University (January 2023)
2022
- “A Little Boy in a Dark Room” | Iowa Review (Winter 2022)
- “before the dark” | Poetry Foundation (July/August 2022)
- “FINE BOY WRITES A POEM ABOUT ANXIETY” | ANMLY, Issue 34 (2022)
- “Ibadan” | World Literature Today (March 2022)
- “3 Poems” | Long House (May 2022)
- “Haruna Ishola Eulogizes Mary Awolowo” | Drunk Monkeys (January 2022)
2021
- “A Poetry Cover Of Billie Eilish’s No Time To Die in Which I am Ghost Haunting My Father’s New Home” | Lolwe (October, 2021).
- “may the lord build us an ark” | Lolwe (October, 2021).
- “Anvil” | HAVEHASHAD (Summer, 2021).
- “sọ́kà” | Words Rhymes and Rhythm (July 2021).
- “LEVITATE” | Frontier Poetry (May 2021).
- “boyying” (v.3) | Leavings
2020
- “Bad Dream with My Grandmother’s Stroke” | The 2020 Industry Prize | Frontier Poetry, (November 2020).
- “First Visit” | The Shore Poetry (Issue 6, Summer 2020)
- “2 Poems” | Nectar Poetry, (August 2020).
- “Three Poems” | IceFloe Press (May 2020)
- “The Final Plague” | Ghost City Press (April 2020)
- “God’s Easiest Wrath is Absence” | 20.35 (volume iii, 2020)
2019
- “2 Poems” | IceFloe Press (December 2019)
- “2 Poems” | Wombwell Rainbow (December 2019)
- “ajinde” | Burning House Press (July 2019)
- “two weeks before my birthday” | Dami Ajayi (May 2019)
2018
- “3 Poems” | Burning House Press (December 2018)
- “3 Poems” | Meagan Kimberly (December 2018)
2017
- “2 Poems” | Kalahari Review (December 2017)
2016
- “Oblivion” | African Writer Magazine (April 2016)
Reviews
- “A Review of Madeleine Cravens’s Pleasure Principle.” Adroit Journal, July 2024
- “The Human and the Holy: On Sarah Ghazal Ali’s ‘Theophanies.’” LA Review of Books, January 2024
- “What Is Home? On Sophie Klahr’s ‘Two Open Doors in a Field.'” LA Review of Books, August 2023
- “Voidness and Other Things That Were in the Beginning and Beyond: A Review of Isaura Ren’s Interlucent.” Trampset, March 2021
- “A Review of Savannah Slone’s Hearing the Underwater.” YesPoetry, December 2018
Prose/Essays
- “Short Essay on Music.” Isele Magazine
- “Your Grandmother’s Antique.” Best Small Fiction, December 2022.
- “Your Grandmother’s Antique.” Ruminate Magazine, January 2022.
Interviews and Conversations
- The Future of African Poetry Fills Me With So Much Urgency… | WRR Magazine(January 2025)
- “What in the World is Happening in Nigeria?”| The Ex Puritan (November 2024)
- Craft Is Eternal: Adedayo Agarau’s First Draft | The Republic (February 2024)
- Adedayo Agarau Investigates Life Through Interrogative Poetry | Talku Talku, (February 2023)
- Darlington Chibueze Anuonye in Conversation with Adedayo Agarau | Isele Magazine(September 2022)
- Interview with Leslie Tate, (April 2022)
- “New Contemporary Poets are Inventing Structures” A CONVERSATION WITH ADEDAYO ADEYEMI AGARAU | Literature Voices, (August 2021)
- In Conversation with Adedayo Agarau, A Poet Who Tenderly Couples with a Poignant Past on Page | More Branches (February 2021)
- Chapbook Chats 7: Jamaica Baldwin Talks with ‘The Origin of Name’ Author Adedayo Agarau | African Poetry Book Fund (October 2020)
- My Body Protests Through Its Poetry: An Afternoon Conversation with Adedayo Agarau | The Black Boy Review (June 2020)
- Musicality in the Poetry of Healing: A Dialogue with Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau | African In Dialogue (June 2020)
- Conversation with Adedayo Agarau, Author of For Boys Who Went | Nantygreens(February 2019)
- Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Adedayo Agarau | Shamsrumi (November 2018)