The Latest Breaking News from Gboyega Odubanjo

‘Transcendental beauty’ of Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy wins him TS Eliot poetry prize

Judges for the £25,00 award say the collection, informed by grief for his two brothers, ‘braves large questions’ with its lyric sequence

The Guardian - UK · Jan 13, 2025

TS Eliot prize for poetry shortlist contains ‘a strong strain of elegy’

The authors include Gboyega Odubanjo, whose debut collection was published posthumously, Carl Phillips and Karen McCarthy Woolf

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2024

On my radar: Raymond Antrobus’s cultural highlights

The poet on the power of abstract art, Shakespeare in British Sign Language and the ‘articulated rage’ of James Baldwin

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2024

Gboyega Odubanjo: Police investigating multiple lines of inquiry in missing poet case

Relatives of the poet have raised over £30,000 in tribute to support in his final arrangements and to help launch a foundation in his name

Evening Standard · Sep 2, 2023

Gboyega Odubanjo: We want answers about search for poet, say friends

Gboyega Odubanjo’s body was found by police on Thursday five days after he went missing at a music festival

Evening Standard · Sep 1, 2023

Body found in search for Gboyega Odubanjo who went missing at music festival

Gboyega Odubanjo, 27, was reported missing during the Shambala music festival in Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire

Evening Standard · Aug 31, 2023

Police find body in search for missing poet Gboyega Odubanjo

Formal identification yet to take place but family of award-winning poet have been informed

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2023

Body found in search for poet who went missing at music festival

Gboyega Odubanjo, 27, was reported missing during the Shambala music festival in Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire.

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2023

Body found in search for missing poet Gboyega Odubanjo

Gboyega Odubanjo vanished over the weekend at Shambala festival

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2023

Police appeal to find ‘acclaimed’ poet Gboyega Odubanjo

The 27-year-old from Bromley, London, was last seen around Kelmarsh in Northamptonshire at 4am on August 26.

The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2023