Poetry Workshop with Oluwaseun Olayiwola
A poetry workshop with poet, critic, and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola. Seun will draw on the themes of the exhibition, Appendix | Index, and invite participants to create and write based on the work in the show. Participants will be invited into Seun's poetic practice, and will explore the intersections of word, image, and body.
Oluwaseun (Seun) Olayiwola is a poet, critic, choreographer and performer based in London. He published his debut collection of poetry, Strange Beach, with Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2025. His creative and critical work has been published in the Guardian, The Poetry Review, PN Review, Oxford Poetry, the Telegraph, the TLS and elsewhere. His choreographic work has been presented at the V&A, The Place, The Central School of Ballet, and Studio Voltaire. He’s been commissioned by Royal Society of Literature, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Southwark Council, and Studio 3 Arts. Seun has an MFA in Choreography from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where he was a Fulbright Scholar in 2018-2019. He recently began lecturing in dance in the Kingston School of Art. Seun is a member of the inaugural Rose Choreographic School at Sadler’s Wells.
