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Jide Salawu
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Ọkọ Kóbìtán. PhDing @UAlberta. Gateman @Brown Bamboo. Editor @OlongoAfrica. Newsletter @flaminghydra.com
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Jide Salawu @jidesalawu.bsky.social · 5d
Grateful for the first review of my book. Honored by this beautiful writing by Nicholas Bradley for The Walrus.
thewalrus.ca The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 5d
In reading @jidesalawu.bsky.social's poetry collection, Contraband Bodies, writer Nicholas Bradley found a welcome disruption of Canada’s inward-looking literary habits—and proof of poetry's ability to fire the ear and imagination in an age of political noise. thewalrus.ca/canadian-literat...
On the left: an illustration of two people riding on the backs of Canadian geese in flight. On the right: text that reads “Canadian literature needs to stop talking only to itself. Jide Salawu’s bracing poetry debut challenges the idea that national writing can exist in isolation.”
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A turbo-charged review of Contraband Bodies 💫✨🥹
thewalrus.ca The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 20h
In @jidesalawu.bsky.social's poetry collection, Contraband Bodies, migration is mediated by technology. Implicit in the references to electronic communication is the possibility of return, a prospect—not necessarily happy or uncomplicated—that haunts the book. thewalrus.ca/canadian-literat...
On the left: an illustration of two people riding on the backs of Canadian geese in flight. On the right: text that reads “Canadian literature needs to stop talking only to itself. Jide Salawu’s bracing poetry debut challenges the idea that national writing can exist in isolation.”
December 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Now Jake needs a dentist appointment 😭
December 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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TODAY: @annamerlan.bsky.social embarks on an extraordinary voyage (of shopping). "I envisioned a Halloween costume in which I would wear just that and a bedsheet, but ultimately and with great difficulty got ahold of myself." flaminghydra.com/discomfort-s...
Discomfort shopping
Anna Merlan aboard the Titanic (Museum Shop)
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December 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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✨ We're so proud to see this fabulous collection by @jidesalawu.bsky.social featured in @thewalrus.ca!

Get your copy now on our online store or at any bookstore near you!

#NeWestPress #CrowSaidPoetry #JideSalawu #ContrabandBodies

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Book Cover: Contraband Bodies. Poems. Jide Salawu. A closeup photograph of a dark skinned man's neck and shoulders and he twists in movement. The photograph is cut into sections and geometrically juxtaposed against itself.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Grateful for the first review of my book. Honored by this beautiful writing by Nicholas Bradley for The Walrus.
thewalrus.ca The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 5d
In reading @jidesalawu.bsky.social's poetry collection, Contraband Bodies, writer Nicholas Bradley found a welcome disruption of Canada’s inward-looking literary habits—and proof of poetry's ability to fire the ear and imagination in an age of political noise. thewalrus.ca/canadian-literat...
On the left: an illustration of two people riding on the backs of Canadian geese in flight. On the right: text that reads “Canadian literature needs to stop talking only to itself. Jide Salawu’s bracing poetry debut challenges the idea that national writing can exist in isolation.”
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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TODAY: We are experiencing a period of unavoidable delay! It’s fine! Stay tuned!
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Mad haze, winter bruise, Edmonton Edmonton's bath of smog in December.
December 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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This student of mine wrote so brilliantly. And yes, I can tell you. I can smell chatgpt 4 miles away. And it is not!
December 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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"Since the British left it over sixty years ago, Nigeria has lived through many iterations of democratic disillusionment and the broken promises of many military messiahs."

My thoughts on home and Nigeria's insecurity challenges @flaminghydra.com

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Crimes forgiven
Jídé Salawu worries about his hometown
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December 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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"Since the British left it over sixty years ago, Nigeria has lived through many iterations of democratic disillusionment and the broken promises of many military messiahs."

My thoughts on home and Nigeria's insecurity challenges @flaminghydra.com

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Crimes forgiven
Jídé Salawu worries about his hometown
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December 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Why it is imperative to prosecute the crimes of the powerful.

A hypnotic read from @jidesalawu.bsky.social, today at @flaminghydra.com

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Crimes forgiven
Jídé Salawu worries about his hometown
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December 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on unthinkable crime too close to home. “My uncle and I discussed how the villages are now at the mercy of terrorists, both inside the government and out.” flaminghydra.com/r/24246a34?m...
Crimes forgiven
Jídé Salawu worries about his hometown
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December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Thank you Maria! ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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It's going to be beautiful and weird

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November 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Edmonton tonight wears its white mascara. Timely one published by @flaminghydra.com

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Winter and the Unbearable Weight of Migration
In November 2023, a man was found cold dead in a tent in the Greater Toronto Area encampment. I was scrolling through Twitter when his story roused my attention. He was an asylum seeker from Nigeria, ...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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With friends In Kingston Ontario. I don't know why anyone would be anti-coffee! Need to get these guys on the side of the pure arabica!
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Thanks so much for your kind words and support always.✨✨✨🌸
joannastreetly.bsky.social Joanna Streetly @joannastreetly.bsky.social · Nov 13
This strong collection by @jidesalawu.bsky.social arrived in my life today. If you haven’t read Jide’s work yet, I encourage you to dive in! He writes of migration, the leaving and the waiting and the loss. He writes of a broken and exploited homeland, one that sings through him onto the page.
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Yes man!
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Zohran!
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Thanks to Catherine Owen for this generous review of my book. It’s such an honour when someone takes the time to read and respond to your work, and you know that your work has reached beyond the void.
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All of Us Hidden by Joanna Streetly (Caitlin Press 2025)
It might come as little surprise that I adore lyric poetry, real lyrics grounded in actual experience that produce their own wild and accura...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus.

Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins

Whew. What they did!!!

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The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM