debut full-length poetry collection
2019
Ouida Poetry (Lagos, Nigeria)
Shortlisted for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
Praise for In The Nude
"This stunning collection resides at the intersection between the sacred and the sexual, which is always about departure and longing, sometimes pain. The verse is plump with pop culture and precision, toggling self-harm with self-care, as it gorgeously weaves through Yorùbá culture. Here are brown boys and the repetition of bodies wrapped in violence, but also rapt in delight."
— Tiana Clark, author of I Can’t Talk About The Trees Without The Blood
"Logan February's In The Nude offers courage, adventurous craftsmanship, fresh resonances with regard to urbanity and love. February's work is as much about personality as it is about psychic peregrinations. This poet's inner barometer gives nod to gender fluidity, a prescient invocation of heritage, emotion and physicality. We must believe the voice here that says "My scars are wide enough for a whole / generation to share."
— Uche Nduka, author of Living in Public
"Bold and fiercely defiant worship of the black queer body. Edgy and vibrant. This is layered and deeply conceptual poetry with confessional intones and fatalistic intents."
— Dami Ajayi, author of A Woman's Body is a Country
