June 14th is the Date, Cafe Oto is the venue: www.cafeoto.co.uk/.../the87pre... Please share widely and buy your ticket early to avoid disappointment.

💫 We’re delighted that Boiled Owls by @azad-ashim.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize for Poetry 💫 ❤️‍🔥 to see Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam there, & alongside titles by @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social @rushikawick.bsky.social 🙏 to the judging panel & congrats to all the shortlisted poets

Last Hummingbirds we had a very interesting discussion with Waithera Sebatindira, azad-ashim.bsky.social and Dr. Abeera Khan. Don't miss out on Hummingbirds 5 at buff.ly/s7lz9vE%F0%9... With kazimali.bsky.social and alycia.bsky.social Tickets are free with registration🎟️ buff.ly/edkbp7B

Congratulations to Saba Kermati for winning the 2025 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize ⭐ Check out the winning collection Self-Mythology at our online shop 📚 buff.ly/GDdRwnA

A look into the new collection of poetry gestalt by the talented Karenjit Sandhu @k_ren_sandhu Now available for pre-order, publishing on 10th April ✨ #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch #preorder #smallpresspublishing #BookLover

We have Kazim Ali (kazimali.bsky.social), author of The Voice of Sheila Chandra, at Hummingbirds 5.0 at Housmans Bookshop (housmansbookshop.bsky.social) 📚 Join us for a enlightening eve with Kazim and Alycia Pirmohamed reading from their recent works, following a discussion with Azad Ashim Sharma

Excerpt from gestalt, IV, "vat," page 37. gestalt by Karenjit Sandhu is out on April 10th 2025! Pre-order your copy: www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/gestalt

We’re thrilled to share the second episode of sub(VERSE)ive with guest poet Sarah Ghazal Ali! @sarahali.bsky.social Watch the full conversation on Sarah’s debut collection THEOPHANIES (@the87press.bsky.social), including a reading:

✨ Restock day✨ This time it's @omarsakr.bsky.social Son of Sin 📚 Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet’s eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.

An excerpt from Recupera by Emma Gomis. "Memory is a Ghost," page 1. www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/recup...

We're thrilled to announce that we’ve signed Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social and will bring her debut poetry collection, Dear Diaspora, to the UK and Ireland in September! This powerful collection, previously published by University of Nebraska Press, 2021, is a multi-award winner.

I had the great pleasure of having Rhoni read with me several times on my Boiled Owls US tour and these poems, now available at AWP in book form, moved me nearly to tears. Come and see this wonderful poet in action!

COME TO THIS LONDON www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the87press...

Delighted that Rushika Wick's Horse is on the Jhalak Prize longlist, alongside other brilliant poets including @azad-ashim.bsky.social, @mailbykite.bsky.social, and Nisha Ramayya. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

www.jhalakprize.com/poetry-prize extremely grateful to have Boiled Owls longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2025 and mentioned amongst such illustrious company, in particular, alongside Nisha Ramayya whose work and example has always been a north-star for my own attempts at this life in letters.

Two upcoming events, LA and Vancouver - hope to see you there!

anyone I know on here going to be at AWP? I'm reading at N Figueroa Bookshop with a Nightboat crew on the 03/28

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... There was a payment issue for people buying tickets that has now been resolved! Please buy them, please come! 3 new books from @the87press.bsky.social

hey friends - come to Oto this Saturday and witness the release of 3 new books from the87press - Harmony is coming through from LA, Emma from Paris, Karenjit from outside London. Show these brilliant writers a good time!!!

‘I write into your poetry like a seeker watching for the changing nodes of tradition, I’ll be / buried on that horizon, its open sky.’ Following Peter Gizzi's T.S. Eliot Prize win for Fierce Elegy, @azad-ashim.bsky.social has penned a tribute poem. Read here:

www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope... new one

Morning #booksky family - the second 2025 live event from @the87press.bsky.social is on 22nd Feb at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social featuring Emma Gomis, Karenjit Sandhu, and Harmony Holiday!! Please buy tickets here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... It's a triple book launch!

Dr. Abeera Khan will be chairing the conversation at Hummingbirds 4.0 on February 7th at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social 7 - 9pm! @azad-ashim.bsky.social and Waithera Sebatindira will read, followed by a conversation. Tickets are free: https://buff.ly/40db4Or

@azad-ashim.bsky.social @brihughespoet.bsky.social @somecoolwords.bsky.social #innovativepoetry #experimentalpoetry #poetryfestival #onlinefestival #artfestival

Something awesome this way comes! A poetry festival full of ✨🌟💫 Amy Evans Bauer, Amy Cutler, Azad Ashim Sharma, James Davies, Serena Braida, Camilla Nelson, Briony Hughes, Stephen Mooney, Lisa Samuels, Antony John, Tim Atkins, E.P. Jenkins, Michał Kamil Piotrowski 💙💖💜LINK TO TICKETS IN BIO💛💚♥️

LINK TO TICKETS IN @artblab.bsky.social’s BIO Participating poets: Amy Evans Bauer, Amy Cutler, Azad Ashim Sharma, James Davies, Serena Braida, Camilla Nelson, Briony Hughes, Stephen Mooney, Lisa Samuels, Antony John, Tim Atkins, E.P. Jenkins @azad-ashim.bsky.social @brihughespoet.bsky.social

I’m so happy to be running the Innovative Poetry Festival Beyond Text for the third time, and god, what a lineup of stars we have! 🔥💥💫 Get your tickets on Indiegogo before they are gone! And only there you will get access to the recordings of the readings from 2022 and 2003! Plus many other perks❣️

www.indiegogo.com/.../beyond-t.... Taking part in an innovative poetry festival in early March - this festival didn't receive funding for this year's programming so has launched a campaign to encourage registrations for the now online-only programme. Please sign up and share widely! #poetry #booksky

Azad Ashim Sharma @azad-ashim.bsky.social is joining us, this time on the other side of the conversation, for Hummingbirds this Friday Feb 7th at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social 7 - 9pm! Azad will be joined by Waithera Sebatindira followed by a discussion with Dr. Abeera Khan https://buff.ly/40db4Or

Join us at Cafe OTO on Feb 22nd with Karenjit Sandhu, Harmony Holiday, and Emma Gomis! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...

Excited for this event! See you on friday?

All hail the 87! Doing incredible, invaluable work expanding horizons in the UK poetry world, live, online & on paper 🤗

Hey everyone - very hard to discern how to stand out from the enormous and brilliant literary #community being built on here. I run @the87press.bsky.social with a team of comrades. We have an event coming up on 22nd Feb please share www.the87press.co.uk/events/musha... #poetry #literature #booksky

Israel is carrying out large scale military aggression in the illegally occupied West Bank. TAKE ACTION NOW: loom.ly/6IzGIOw

censorship all over the socials

We are re-sharing out statement from October 2023. The work is far from over and we urge people and institutions to continue in the meaningful practice of solidarity with the people of Palestine. Read here:

With the success of our last SELL-OUT workshop, we're thrilled to bring back Victoria Adukwei Bulley for another workshop: 'The Endless Body' ✨ Register here: https://buff.ly/3CatveF #VictoriaAdukweiBulley #PoetryWorkshop #the87press #theendlessbody #letscreate

Next up: The Endless Body, a poetry workshop with Victoria Adukwei Bulley on February 16th. https://buff.ly/3CatveF

Grab your copy of Theophanies, out now on our website or from your favourite indie bookseller! https://buff.ly/3Bdc7Wk

In November, Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social led our Archiving Smoke workshop. Read her reflections and explore contributions from attendees Helen Victoria Murray, Rushika Wick, and Jack Giauor, inspired by the session—now live on theHythe: Open Access. https://buff.ly/42cbTtx

Sincerely hope whatever literary community emerges as the dust settles on ppl using this app is more rooted in actual literary study and critical theory and less in the faddish cult of celebrity that is so pervasive in literature qua Literature etc etc.

Solidarity with my US friends and the people of the US who are in communities of resistance to the absolute monstrosity we are seeing take shape. I can't help thinking about Cornel West, the president who could have been in a more hopeful and less cynical world.

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2025. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component. 📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/news/781/

Can’t be repeated often enough ‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’ on.ft.com/42hzVmL

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

Join us for Hummingbirds 4.0 Feb 7th at @HousmansBooks! With readings from Waithera Sebatindira and @azad-ashim.bsky.social followed by a discussion with Dr. Abeera Khan. The evening will explore themes of addiction, recovery, and writing. www.eventbrite.com/e/the87press...

A glimpse inside Theophanies by @caesarah Sarah Ghazal Ali✨ 📚 Pre-order now through the link in bio! This award-winning debut poetry collection was met with critical acclaim when it was released in the US earlier this year and we are so delighted to be releasing the UK.

We sit down with Al Anderson from Housmans Bookshop to talk about the history of radical bookselling, the role of poetry in the contemporary left and the contested meaning of community. Read on theHythe+, our members journal. Join for £20/year and support our work. https://buff.ly/40yVbTJ

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