Writing

Poetry (selected)

The Redemption of Vanity’ in Oxford Poetry
‘Path of Least Resilience’ in a cough of pollen: Winchester Poetry Prize 2023 anthology (First Prize in the Winchester Poetry Prize 2023)
‘Watermelon’ and ‘Reader, I Married Him’ in Wet Grain
‘burst me into song’ in Propel Magazine and The Propel Anthology: 2022–2024
‘Notes on Modality’ and ‘God Complex’ in The London Magazine
‘The Scarecrow’ ‘Run Against the Wind’, and ‘The Doppler Effect’ in Lolwe
‘Chiaroscuro’ in bath magg / Faber’s Poem of the Week
‘Turkish Delight’ in The London Magazine (Second Prize in the London Magazine Poetry Prize 2022)
‘Ahead Only’ in Creative Writing Anthology 2022 (Aesthetica Magazine) (Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2022)
‘PG Tips’ in Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre’s Poem of the Week series (Shortlisted for the 2020 Bridport Prize)
‘Finding my dad in a can of baked beans’ and ‘Can I throw this one away and start again?’ in harana poetry
‘The Palm Wine Tapper’ and ‘The Pastor’s Wife’ in Tentacular
‘Imaginative Play’ in Magma
‘hotboxing’ in The Poetry Review
‘Endomorphosis’ in petrichor (Nominated for Best of the Net 2020)
‘Sister Wives’ in Lammergeier
‘Plantain’ in We’ve Done Nothing Wrong. We’ve Nothing To Hide (Verve Poetry Press) (Commended in the 2020 Verve Festival Poetry Competition)
‘Blouse an Skirt’ in The Caribbean Writer (Winner of the 2019 Vincent Cooper Literary Prize)

Reviews

On June Jordan, Wanda Coleman, and Rita Dove for the Times Literary Supplement
On Anthony Vahni Capildeo and Will Alexander for The Poetry Review
On Togara Muzanenhamo for The Poetry School
On Gregory Leadbetter, Sasha Dugdale, and Phoebe Stuckes for Magma
On Shivanee Ramlochan and Safiya Sinclair for harana poetry

Short Fiction

‘The Motorcycle’ in AFREADA
‘The Cave’ in Moko Magazine

Essays & Features

‘The Essay: Double Vision’ for BBC Radio 3
‘Behind the poem: Isabelle Baafi on ‘hotboxing” for The Poetry Review

Interviews

Jul 2023, Don Paterson for Poetry London
Mar 2023, Will Harris for Poetry London
Oct 2022, Victoria Adukwei Bulley for Poetry London
Jun 2022, Mohammed El-Kurd for Poetry London
Jan 2021, Nick Makoha for Magma