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Tolu Oloruntoba

Tolu Oloruntoba lived in Nigeria and the United States before settling in Vancouver. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, while his debut chapbook, Manubrium, was a bpNichol Chapbook Award finalist. The Junta of Happenstance, his first full-length collection, was the winner of the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for English Language Poetry and the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Each One a Furnace

Each One a Furnace

By Tolu Oloruntoba

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