Poetry (Selected)
‘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
‘What Sisyphus Knew’ in Anthropocene
‘Peeling’ in Finished Creatures
‘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
‘Daybreak’ in 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Vol. 2 (20.35 Africa)
‘Blouse an Skirt’ in Musings and Metaphors: Revolution, Evolution and Devolution (The Caribbean Writer)
- Winner of the 2019 Vincent Cooper Literary Prize
Fiction
‘The Cave’ in Moko Magazine
‘The Motorcycle’ in AFREADA
‘The Market’ in Litro
‘Driftwood’ in Riggwelter Press
Features
‘Behind the poem: Isabelle Baafi on ‘hotboxing” in The Poetry Review
Reviews
‘The Hurricane’s Roar’ in harana poetry