[8] Bernardine Evaristo praised Ajayi as one that "bravely exposes intimacies and his vulnerable self through poems that are honest and confessional.”[9] Brittle Paper called it "an affection brewed by loss", and it was a finalist for the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry in 2018.

It was described by Peter Akinlabi as "an audacious testing of the very limits of self-revelation", where "where the poet’s act of “practicing vulnerability” finds a most heightened articulation of love's complexities and contradictions,[11] and OlongoAfrica describes as "a personal narrative of pain" with "the signature of his poetics by his deployment of accessible language and lapidary details of poems that cross into the poet’s personal life and everyday realities.

"[12] Between 2013 and 2019, he wrote critical reviews on Nigerian music and has interviewed musicians like King Sunny Adé and Adekunle Gold, Queen Salawu Abeni, Etuk Ubong, Adebantu, and Somi.

The Sun stated that “What sets Dami Ajayi apart in the realm of music criticism is his dual role as a poet.

Ajayi’s reviews often read like nuanced compositions, where each word is carefully chosen to evoke the essence of the music he dissects.”[19] He was also one of the editors of the anthology From Limbe to Lagos: NonFiction from Cameroon and Nigeria, which was the result of a writing workshop held in Limbe[2] for young African writers.