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
- ‘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