01Watch
A poem, in the poet’s voice
An intimate filmed reading. The first selection will be added once Gabriel has chosen and approved the work.
Coming with Gabriel’s approvalStudyMaxing presentsPoetry with Gabriel Gbadamosi
A home for words that make you look twice.
Readings, reflections and ways into the work of poet, playwright and novelist Gabriel Gbadamosi.
Portrait to come
read slowlylisten closelyGabriel Gbadamosi
Poet · playwright · novelistFirst season in development—New readings and conversations are being prepared.
Watch & read
The reading room
A first-season framework for Gabriel to shape: poems in his own voice, short introductions and conversations that open the work without over-explaining it.
02Read
A way into the work
A short editorial introduction giving readers context without getting between them and the poem.
Coming with Gabriel’s approval03Listen
The conversation after
Gabriel on language, memory, place and the choices that shape a piece of writing.
Coming with Gabriel’s approvalThe point is not to rush through more words. It is to spend enough time with the right ones.
The StudyMaxing approachApproved portraitcoming soon
Final image, credit and usage permission to be agreed with Gabriel.
Meet the writer
Gabriel Gbadamosi
Draft biography for reviewGabriel Gbadamosi is a British poet, playwright and novelist whose work moves between page, stage and radio. His writing returns to the pressures and possibilities of language, place, identity and belonging.
His published work includes the prize-winning novel Vauxhall, the play Stop and Search and Abolition. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2024.
This short introduction uses public biographical information and is intentionally provisional. Gabriel’s approved biography will replace it before launch.
Selected work
On the page. On the stage.
Vauxhall
A childhood in 1970s inner-city London, told with poetic clarity, humour and warmth.
ExploreStop and Search
Three charged conversations about movement, surveillance and the ways we police one another.
ExploreAbolition
A work for the stage published by flipped eye, carrying history into the present tense.
ExplorePurchase links will be added only after editions, sellers and rights have been confirmed with Gabriel.
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Over time, StudyMaxing can grow into a broader, multi-subject learning network for students, families and schools. For now, the job is simpler — make a thoughtful home for Gabriel’s poetry and build an audience around the work.
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