Poetry Reading Group with Tolu A. Akinyemi as part of Black History Month
Monday, 20th October 2025
Time: 2pm—3pm
Gateshead Central Library
Come along and see speaker, author, writer, and poet Tolu A. Akinyemi celebrate Black History Month 2025.
Adults only
Free entry.
Tolu’ A. Akinyemi’s Bio:
Tolu’ A. Akinyemi (also known as Tolutoludo) is a multiple award-winning Nigerian British writer of twenty-three books in the genres of poetry, short stories, children’s literature, and essays.
In 2020, he won the Best Indie Book Award for his poetry collection, A Booktiful Love. His collection of short stories, Inferno of Silence, won the 2021 IRDA Discovery Award for short stories and Next Generation Indie Book Awards (2021) for Best Cover Design (Fiction).
A former headline act at the Allen Valleys Folk Festival, Great Northern Slam, Crossing The Tyne Festival, Feltonbury Arts and Music Festival, Havering Literary Festival, and the Woolwich Centre Library National Poetry Day event. He was also a guest poet at the Havering Libraries Black History Month event. Some of his forthcoming engagements include a poetry reading at Gateshead Central Library as part of a Black History Month event scheduled for October 2025, among others.
His works and poems have been featured on BBC Sounds, Spark Sunderland, 57th issue (Volume 15, No. 1) of the Wilderness House Literary Review; The Writers Café Magazine Issue 18; Lion and Lilac; Agape Review; Black Moon Magazine; Calla Press; African Writer Magazine; Football in Poetry 2 Anthology; and elsewhere.
His poems have been translated into Greek.
He is the founder of The Roaring Lion Newcastle, a UK-based book publisher, and sits on the board of many organisations.