Just a little over 2 weeks to go. Nine poets performing after THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL.

⁦George The Poet 🇺🇬⁩
⁦Harry Baker⁩
⁦Rhael 'LionHeart' Cape Hon FRIBA⁩
⁦speak on it⁩
⁦kae tempest⁩
& more 🎙️

Tickets: royalalberthall.com/tickets/events…

“I know a poem is complete when I am both unsettled and at peace.”

I was interviewed by The Republic about all things writing, muses, process and books!

Editors: Peace Onafuye (@PYOnafuye ); Wale Lawal
Illustrator: Kevwe Ogini

republic.com.ng/april-may-2024…

Even Tekno casually used parambulate in his lyrics.

Nigerian English >>>>

Where else do you use words 'peradventure' in casual conversation?

Wait till he hears trafficate.

Hanif being here makes my heart rejoice!! Still remember watching his poetry readings on YouTube.

Ball and Bounce - a poem instagram.com/reel/C4yATEDIO…

BOOK COVER REVEAL

Here is my grandfather and I, circa 1994, in Lagos, Nigeria at my naming ceremony! ❤️

I’m so honoured that this is the book cover for CEREMONY FOR THE NAMELESS, forthcoming from Penguin Books UK 7th November 2024

PRE ORDER here 🤍: penguin.co.uk/authors/294370…

Thankyou Theresa Lola for a fabulous Poetry Society workshop in the Poetry Cafe today! Come back soon!

This is genuinely the most moving piece I’ve read about my work. Thank you so much for your kind words.

Have you ever written a poem with a question? Do you love poems with questions? This Saturday 23rd of March, i'll be leading a poetry workshop for The Poetry Society on the use of questions. See you there, let's write! poetrysociety.org.uk/event/in-perso…

Head to our website to book tickets for our next workshop coming up at The Poetry Café in March with Theresa Lola on Poetry and Questions poetrysociety.org.uk/events/

.Penguin Books UK has scooped Theresa Lola's 'lyrical' Ceremony for the Nameless, an 'exquisite' collection of poems about the diasporic experience.

Read more 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/penguin…

Thank you!! 🤍🤍🫶🏾☺️

Soon I’ll return to this tweet to add a poem! My upcoming collection explores names 🤍 #excited penguin.co.uk/authors/294370…

Okay this made me chuckle.

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Thank you!!

What a difference 5 years makes, today
my skin is no longer a carousel of masks.
Praises be to a thick syrup of therapy,
a puree of prayer, peelings of coping mechanisms,

- Theresa Lola, Two Photographs
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