Odubanjo’s writing rubs together the many different parts of his world: London, Nigerian culture, religion, music, parties, histories of migration. Two stops short of Barking contains a series of six poems alongside three interviews with artists from his local area, and together they define a relationship to his home town of Dagenham in East London. Contrasting his own experiences - from being chased home after school, to buying grilled suya from a van around the corner from the local Wetherspoons - with other local histories and stories, Odubanjo places them in a wider context of migration and regeneration. The pamphlet is both playful and incisive.

Barking and Dagenham nomination.