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M.O. Dada

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Lagos, Nigeria

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Fiction, Poetry, Contemporary

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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 fu ...more

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Average rating: 4.22 · 9 ratings · 3 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Night in Rome on a Full Moon: A Novel-in-Verse in Five Acts by M.O. Dada (Goodreads Author), Holly Welker (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Loss of You & Me: Haiku in Four Acts it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Una notte a Roma sotto la luna piena: Romanzo in versi in cinque atti by M.O. Dada (Goodreads Author), Andrea Sirotti (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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M.O. Dada liked Michael Sanderson-green's review of A Night in Rome on a Full Moon: A Novel-in-Verse in Five Acts: "A very beautiful book about the connection of two people on different plane to the rest of us . Otherwise it’s just an affair. Is it the poetry of the telling that stops it being sordid or is what every adulterer tells themselves , I’m just releasing" Read more of this review »
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