Seagulls and Seashells

By: Tobi Aluko

Seagulls and Seashells drifts between memory, love, history, and the noise of the twenty-first century. Set against the stillness of life in a coastal town, the collection explores what it means to feel deeply in a world that is constantly in motion. Through moments of quiet reflection, such as lovers walking by the sea, lavender tended with patience, and a boy watching the world from his window, the poems capture the delicate interplay between serenity and restlessness. Beneath their calm surfaces lies an ache for home, meaning, and human connection in the digital age. Throughout the collection, the poet returns to enduring questions: what does it mean to love, to lose, to dream? What becomes of beauty when attention fades? Seagulls and Seashells is both elegy and beginning, a conversation between the earthly and the eternal, as expressed in poems like God is in the Water. It is a meditation on finding beauty in the mundane, in an age that rarely pauses to feel.

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About the Author

Tobi Aluko is an artist and writer living and working in Poole, England. Tobi is inspired by the artistic expressions of the Romantic era. He creates paintings, fiction, poetry, and rhetoric in this expression, but reimagined for the modern audience. One of his short stories was featured in the Atherton Review. His paintings have been featured in Auger Collective’s Geo Gallery. His painting was also recently featured in the Society of Nigerian Artists exhibition. Tobi believes, ‘…art has the power to teach love, a profound need in today’s world.’