"Solemn Mastery...Mark sets the tone with quiet vulnerability and observational sharpness." - Bookause Review
Ikeja to Oxford Circus is a personal experience of migration. It follows the persona’s interaction and predisposition to the issues raised in the poems. They are both individual cogitation and echoes of societal anxiety. The poems portray the seeming distress of everyday life in a city abroad. Juxtaposed with the poet’s city back home, the collection draws a mordant conclusion about the ubiquitous nature of city angst as a result of the growing need to meet the demands of urbanisation. On top of that, there are personal, nostalgic feelings that lay bare the pains of being sequestered from loved ones. It thus becomes an expressive dissection of how personal and collective dislocation from home is an inexhaustible discourse.
