Best Canadian Poetry 2027

Tolu Oloruntoba is a project management person and lapsed physician from Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the author of The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest Press, 2021), Each One a Furnace, and Unravel (McClelland & Stewart, 2022, 2025). His work has won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General’s Literary Award for English Language Poetry. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, and writes poems in the small crevice between parenting two young children, working as a poetry and copy editor, and managing provincial healthcare projects. He is very tired.

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