Servio Gbadamosi

Poet

Servio Gbadamosi is a poet and publisher. He was a recipient of the 2016 Ebedi International Writers Residency Fellowship, where he co wrote the chapbook A Half Formed Thing with fellow residents Ehi’zogie Iyeoman and Ikechukwu Nwaogu.

His poetry collection A Tributary in Servitude won the 2015 Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize and later emerged as the shortlisted runner up for the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.

Gbadamosi’s works have appeared both online and in print journals, newspapers and anthologies. These include Nigerian NewsDirect, ANA Review (2017, 2018 and 2019), SOROSOKE: A Collection of #EndSARS Poems, Crossroads: Anthology of Poems in Honour of Christopher Okigbo, Fela’s Re arrangement: A Collage of the Poetic Biography of Nigeria’s Folk Hero of Afrobeat Music, and The Sky is Our Earth: Anthology of Fifty Young Nigerian Poets.

He also co edited the poetry collections The Promise This Time Was Not a Flood: A Sevhage Anthology of Flood Poems and Salt of the Heart: Anthology of Poems for Nigeria at 50.

Servio Gbadamosi currently heads Noirledge Publishing, an independent publishing house dedicated to mainstreaming new voices in contemporary Nigerian writing.