M.O. Dada

M.O. Dada writes about what survives love and loss — what pulls people together, what breaks them apart, and what's left standing after. His work moves between forms: the sprawling, sensory verse of a single unforgettable night, the tight discipline of haiku tracing a relationship's entire arc, and short, aphoristic poems that turn a single feeling over until it reveals its shape.

Born in Nigeria and now based in London, he draws on distance, memory, and the beauty found in fleeting moments. His debut, A Night in Rome on a Full Moon, is a novel-in-verse following one impulsive night in Rome between two people reconnecting after years apart — told in raw, lyrical fragments across five acts. His follow-up, The Loss of You and Me, charts the full arc of a relationship's rise and collapse in haiku, structured across four movements: attachment, betrayal, collapse, and survival.

Whatever the form, he keeps circling the same questions: what we owe the people who mattered, what remains of us after loss, and what it costs — or gives back — to finally stand alone.