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Poems read in Gabriel's own voice
Poetry with Gabriel First season
Gabriel
Gbadamosi
Poet, playwright and novelist. A writer whose work moves between page, stage and radio - and asks what language can hold.
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About the writer
A life across forms
Draft biography for reviewGabriel Gbadamosi is a British poet, playwright and novelist whose work 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 introduction uses public biographical information and remains intentionally provisional. Gabriel's approved biography will replace it before launch.
The first season
Ways into the work
The programme is a framework for Gabriel to shape. Nothing is presented as final until the work, wording and permissions are approved.
Read
Short introductions that open a door into the work
Listen
Conversations about language, memory, place and craft
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.
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