The Common Press is excited to be hosting Otamere Guobadia's debut—Unutterable Visions, Perishable Breath on Friday 19th January from 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm GMT.
Livestream link: Starts at 7pm GMT
The beautiful book is a collection of writings that embody poetic sequences and fragmented poetry as queer forms, a coruscating interplay between language and desire. A look at how love, lovelessness, agency, and destiny constellate and complicate each other while refracting these notions, and Guobadia's personal histories, through a distinct and unabashedly sentimental lens. This is Otamere Guobadia's Lusk letter, a record of 'love in bones and air and stars.'
PRAISE for Unutterable Visions, Perishable Breath: Otherworldly, experimental, and highly lyrical.
— Yomi Adegoke, author of Sunday Times Bestseller The List
A romantic, emotional, varied yet gloriously specific debut. Otamere’s voice is distinct, it draws you in with intimate yet astute observations, and the fragments of Otamere’s musings create lyrical sentences that stay with you long after the page ends.
— Travis Alabanza, author of None of The Above
Event info & Livestreaming
- The event is also going to be live-streamed, please sign up for the live-stream option if you can't join us in person.
- Please note the readings and Q&A will happen downstairs which is sadly not wheelchair accessible.
- BYOB- Please note we will only serve hot drinks and non-alcoholic drinks on the night but you are welcome to bring your own booze.
About Otamere
Otamere Guobadia is a multidisciplinary writer, poet, and columnist whose work focuses on desire, art, adornment, queerness, and agency, within culture high, low, and popular. His work has appeared in British Vogue, i-D, Dazed, GQ, The Guardian, Vogue Italia, Wonderland, The BBC, The Independent, and AnOther Magazine, among other publications.
Otamere writes of a rich life full of desire, with wisdom, in haute language, of a need to be loved. Reading Unutterable Visions, Perishable Breath feels like putting on a whole silk-lined box of jewels and drinking red wine from a goblet, the armoury of a lover’s pen.
— Mendez, Rainbow Milk