conjuring the dreamy form

Muiz Opeyemi Ajayi

How do we create surreal poetry out of seemingly ordinary and realist writing or events? In his workshop, Muiz Opeyemi Ajayi takes viewers through various exercises designed to conjure dreamy surrealist writing out of thin air. Reading excerpts from surreal poems such as “how most of the dreams go” and “self-portrait in a convex mirror”, Muiz examines the dreamy form and how it can be captured within writing– especially poems.

Muiz Opeyemi Ajayi (Frontier XVIII) studies Law at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He's an editor at The Nigeria Review, featuring/forthcoming on Poetry Wales, Nigerian News Direct, Trampset, Rough Cut Press, Shrapnel, The Aurora Journal, Brittle Paper and elsewhere. He was second runner-up in the 2021 PROFWIC Poetry Contest, BKPW Poetry Contest, and a 2021 ARTmosterrific Writer-in-Residence.