Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Autumn 2024 TS Eliot Prize and the sense of alienation

and the sense of alienation and depersonalisation of human beings in our time

translator Frank Wynne has collected eighty of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors

On the one hand

as Auden had it

and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter

Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo<br><b>Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Autumn 2024</b> TS Eliot Prize and the sense of alienationOn 21 September 2001, the torso of a black boy was discovered in the River Thames, near Tower Bridge in central London, clothed only in an orange pair of girls shorts. Given the name Adam by police officers, the unidentified boy was between four and eight years old. What comes next cannot without a story of water and offering. The sun shines and we gather because the river allows it. Na from clap dem dey enter dance. We enter with, and as, Adam.