About me

Destiny Adeyemi is a London based interdisciplinary artist working with poetry, podcast, film and fashion. They have been commissioned by the Poetry Translation Centre, the Barbican centre and the Rise Collective. They are a Slambassadors 2018 Winner, member of The Octavia Poetry Collective and part of the 18/19 Barbican Young Poets programme. Destiny has recently joined Chapter management featuring in W Mag, Le Mile and Dazed.

Check out this Dazed interview in response to the work Sumayyah Wong and Destiny Adeyemi did.
Audio descriped version of Destiny’s film ‘Fat, Black & Sad’.
Destiny’s work was featured in A look into.
This poem deals frankly with sexual abuse and its aftermath.
Destiny Adeyemi wrote this poem in response to the poem ‘the elephant’ by Brazilian poet Adelaide Ivánova, from her PTC Chapbook ‘the hammer and other poems’. Adeyemi initially performed the poem at our ‘guerrilla bitchcraft’ event at the Free Word centre on April 30th 2019.
Performance of the poem “Culture” with Flow Fridays
Destiny Adeyemi featured in Southbank Centre’s Book Podcast: Roxane Gay and women on the page
This piece was written by Destiny Adeyemi and created in collaboration with UAL Film students
Performance of the poem “Finding Home” at Poetic Unity
Performance of the poem “Peace” at SOAS Student Union

Accolades and Features

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