Each One a Furnace

Poems

Author  Tolu Oloruntoba
Each One a Furnace

Second Place Winner of the 2023 RCLAS Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry

From the author of The Junta of Happenstance, here is a brilliant new collection of poems—a burning chronicle of passage and stillness and restlessness.

DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE, FINALIST
FRED COGSWELL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN POETRY, LONGLIST


Each One a Furnace explores (im)migration, diasporas, transience, and instability by following the behaviour, and abundant variety, of finches. The often-migratory birds in these poems typify the unrest, and inability to rest, that animate the lives of billions in the modern world. Out of the register of ornithology, themes of difficulty, adversity, and migrancy, urban ennui, and the psychic struggles of diasporic peoples take shape as those unable to be at rest in the…

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March 22, 2022
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