A woman’s body is a country book by Dami Ajayi

Dami Ajayi journeys into emotional borders that reveal the burdens of transitions, offering us lyrical poetry that reinvents perspectives. Here is the poetry of the quotidian, a philosophic and profound interrogation, and relationships, of words, of bodies and their burdens, of times and time. There is poetry here, and it breathes.

Dami Ajayi is a poet, essayist, music critic, digital publisher and medical doctor. His debut book of poems, Clinical Blues (2014) was nominated for Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize (2015), and shortlisted for the Melita Hume Prize. Ajayi’s poems have appeared in Prosopisia, World Poetry Book, Badilisha Poetry X-Change, Enkare Magazine and elsewhere.

His other writings have been published in the Guardian UK, Chimurenga Chronic, Wawa Book Review, OlisaTV, Fortunate Traveller and Bakwa Magazine.

He is a Senior Registrar at Yaba NeuroPsychiatric Hospital in Lagos State, Nigeria.