[1] Although her poetry hits hard in addressing contemporary themes, it often makes use of formal constraints, including traditional poetic forms.

She is celebrated "for paying equal homage to literature and performance" and for work that "moves fluidly and nimbly between cultures, dialects, voices; between page and stage.

"Transformatix" also contains Agbabi's first published adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, reimagining the Wife of Bath as the Nigerian "Mrs. Alice Ebi Bafa".

"[12] Carol Rumens has said: "Agbabi characteristically makes poetry an opportunity for conversation with the past, not swamping it but setting new lexical terms.

"[16] Agbabi continues to tour Telling Tales as a performance-poetry production shown at literature festivals, arts spaces and libraries across the UK.

As well as performing in Britain, Agbabi undertook British Council reading tours of Namibia, the Czech Republic, Zimbabwe, Germany and Switzerland.

She has also been a contributor to several anthologies, among them Jubilee Lines (2012), edited by Carol Ann Duffy, which marked Queen Elizabeth II's 60th anniversary on the throne,[17] and Refugee Tales (2016), a collection of stories based on accounts by Gatwick airport detainees.

[18][19] She has taught and run workshops and also been poet-in-residence at various places, ranging from Oxford Brookes University and Eton College to a London tattoo and piercing studio.