A look back at Sara Ghazal Ali’s powerful Theophanies performance at the Forward Prizes Ceremony, where she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection. Photos by the talented photographer Neo Gilder. #ForwardPrizes #PoetryAwards #PoetryLive #poetrycommunity

📖Act Announcement📖 We have the talented Sunny Singh joining us for the next Mushaira! An evening of poetry, performance, music, food, and community. 6th of December Café OTO doors open at 7 tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W

Congratulations to the upcoming collection by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha Something about Living has been short-listed for the PEN Heaney Prize and is a Poetry Book Society Winter Recommendation ✨ Coming to the UK & Ireland soon! Pre-order at tr.ee/jlt2F1ePEd

A luminous glimpse of Sophia Terazawa - dancing with the wind, language, and impulse. Tetra Nova, is her debut novel. Originally published by Deep Vellum in the US and coming soon with us in November 2025. Clips taken from🎥 Virginia Tech English Comms | Isaac Massey #TetraNova #SophiaTerazawa

Victoria Adukwei Bulley brings another workshop on the 30th of November 📖 Join us for Troubled Divinities, a poetry workshop with Victoria Adukwei Bulley Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees tr.ee/E9pu4g3use

Join us for a winter edition of Mushaira, an evening of poetry, performance, music, food, and community. Mushaira is a live literature reading series featuring authors published by independent presses. 6th of December at Café OTO doors open at 7 tinyurl.com/bss22mmy

A great start to winter we have Victoria Adukwei Bulley bringing another workshop to you on the 30th of November 📖 Join us for Troubled Divinities, a poetry workshop with Victoria Adukwei Bulley Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees 📚 tinyurl.com/y4c4unhy

A look inside Saints of Little Faith by Megan Pinto. Coming out in only a few days! Pre-order online 📚 www.the87press.co.uk/shop

Happy Publication Day to The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed! The Nightmare Sequence is a searing response to the atrocities in Gaza and beyond since October 2023. Heartbreaking and humane, it is a necessary portrait of the violence committed by Israel and its Western allies.

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ Coming out in February we are publishing the UK edition of 回 / Return by Emily Lee Luan. Originally published by Nightboat Books in the US in 2023. #smallpresspublishing #BookLover #SupportIndieBookstores #literaturelover #londonpoetry

A look inside The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed publishing in just a few days! Pre-order your copy tinyurl.com/yn9dz2w4

What a lovely night 🍂 Thank you to all our performers, to Chef Yogi for the wonderful food, DJ Jimmy Two Shoes for the tunes, to cafe OTO and to everyone who came, you made it another great Mushaira 💜 Our next Mushaira is on the 6th of December so mark your calendars 🗓

Happy publication day to Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates! Out now on our website and anywhere you buy books 📖 tinyurl.com/3nhdbkee Gabrielle Bates’ electrifying debut questions what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears.

Join us TONIGHT for MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food. Hannah Copley is one of the excellent guest poets reading with us! October 24th 2025, doors at 7 at Cafe OTO tinyurl.com/5xret5p9

Gabrielle Bates' next stop on her UK book tour of Judas Goat is at East Bristol Books next week with Emma Gomis✨ tinyurl.com/gabrielle-ebb Other UK tour dates: London, Cafe OTO 24 Oct Edinburgh, Topping & Company 27 Oct with Jessica Widner Cardiff, Book Space 30 Oct with Hanan Issa

We are delighted to have the T.S. Eliot prize short-listed poet Isabelle Baafi joining us THIS FRIDAY for MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food. October 24th 2025, doors at 7 @cafeotodalston www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...

Just a couple days until you too can flip through the pages of this unique and highly anticipated book ✨️ Order your copy of AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PERFORMANCE by Blue Pieta, and Bhanu Kapil uk.bookshop.org/a/15251/9781... #smallpresspublishing #the87press #booklaunch #indiepress

✨ LISTENING TO RAP IN ARABIC MUSIC🎶 Come join us for another literary salon where we discuss Rayya El Zein's Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic - where she listens to the experiences of rappers and their audiences in three Arab cities. Free with Registration ✨ tr.ee/PGGH068cCG

📖ACT ANNOUNCEMENT📖 We've got a special virtual reading from The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr, illustrated by Safdar Ahmed screened our next MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food. October 24th 2025, Cafe OTO - doors 7 www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...

Cover reveal of Kazim Ali's (@kazimali.bsky.social) Indian Winter! Coming out in November this year. Pre-order now! 📖https://tr.ee/RIo1fFe-qh #londonpoetry #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch #bookstagram #preorder

📖ACT ANNOUNCEMENT📖 We will be celebrating the launch of Autobiography of a Performance by Blue Pieta/Bhanu Kapil, with a performance featuring vocalist/musician Kath Gifford Join the87press for our next MUSHAIRA October 24th 2025, Cafe OTO www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...

Happy Publication day to @susanpoet.bsky.social Dear Diaspora ✨ Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/dear-diaspora

We're happy to welcome to the press Emily Lee Luan who will be publishing with us the UK edition of 回 / Return in February this year ✨ Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience.

More about the authors included in the87press poetry book subscription 2025-6 📖📚 Check out on our website: www.the87press.co.uk/poetrybooksu... #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature

We're delighted to announce one of our acts for the next MUSHAIRA is our very own Gabrielle Bates (@gabriellebates.bsky.social)! October 24th 2025, doors at 7 at Cafe OTO www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... Mushaira is a live literature reading series featuring authors published by indie presses.

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ An operatic, polyphonic novel that follows Emi Terazawa/Lua Mater — a performance artist creating a text that maps Vietnamese intergenerational stories across genocide, psychosis, and the resistance that follows. Pre-order link in bio

We’re thrilled to announce that the OLH (@openlibhums.org) is partnering with award-winning poetry publisher the87press to relaunch its flagship poetry journal The Hythe Review. More on The Hythe Review: www.openlibhums.org/journals/ #WritingCommunity #the87press #literature #londonpoetry

Join the87press for our next MUSHAIRA ✨ Featuring the launches of Autobiography of a Performance by Blue Pieta/Bhanu Kapil, Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates, and The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr, illustrated by Safdar Ahmed (virtual reading). Guest readings from Hannah Copley and Isabelle Baafi.

In this special edition box-set, containing all of the novels – Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus’s Run, Atet A.D., Bass Cathedral, and Late Arcade – we're delighted to present UK and Irish readers with the Nathaniel Mackey's quintet of jazz-infused epistolary novels with accompanying discographies.

Join the87press for a very special Hummingbirds, a literary salon event featuring Alia Al Ghussain (@aliaalghussain) and Rayya El Zein to celebrate the launch of Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic (Indiana University Press, 2025). Free with Registration ✨ tr.ee/xDmuntJjVk

We're pleased to announce that we’re publishing Indian Winter by Kazim Ali (@kazimali.bsky.social) in November this year! It's an honour to be welcoming back Kazim for their second publication with us. Pre-order now: uk.bookshop.org/a/15251/9781... #londonpoetry #letscreate #the87press #indiepress

Last week we packed up our first few orders for the87press poetry book subscription 2025-6 ✨🛍️ Find our more on our website at the87press.co.uk/poetrybooksu... #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature

A closer look at the gorgeous cover of Saints of Little Faith by Megan Pinto! Publishing in November 2025, you can pre-order here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sain... You can also get this title as part of our Poetry Book Subscription: www.the87press.co.uk/poetrybooksu...

With great joy, we welcome the visionary voice Sophia Terazawa to the87press! Tetra Nova will be released in December 2025. First published by Deep Vellum Publishing (@deepvellum.bsky.social), we're excited to welcome this debut novel from the award winning performance artist and poet.

SAVE THE DATE — Dear Diaspora: book launch, trilingual reading & fundraiser for Palestine. Sunday September 28th from 7-9pm UK (brunch time in the US) | online & in person at The Common Press! @susanpoet.bsky.social @poetrytranslation.bsky.social @thecommonpress.bsky.social @phuonganh.bsky.social

Coming THIS MONTH we have Victoria Adukwei Bulley bringing another workshop to you on the 14th of September ☀️Out of Ruin: a poetry workshop with Victoria Adukwei Bulley☀️ Link in the bio for the workshop. It's almost sold out! #VictoriaAdukweiBulley #PoetryWorkshop #the87press

We are very honoured to announce that Azad Ashim Sharma, our founding Director, has been appointed as the poet laureate of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. You can read the full announcement here: caribbeanphilosophy.org/blog/poet-la...

A closer look at the upcoming collection by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social. Something about Living, coming to the UK & Ireland in December! Pre-order here: t.co/U9pbwhQXxR #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch

Saba Keramati @sabadilla15.bsky.social signing some copies of Self-Mythology. Look for them at Round Table Books and Housmans Bookshop! www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/self-... #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ Autobiography of a Performance: Scores, Essays and Reflections by Blue Pieta and Bhanu Kapil, coming October 2025! Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/autobio...

Learn more about some of the authors included in the87press poetry book subscription 2025-6 📖📚 Full list here: www.the87press.co.uk/poetrybooksu... #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ Saints of Little Faith by Megan Pinto @megg-bean.bsky.social coming November 2025! Pre-order your copy here: www.waterstones.com/book/saints-... #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch #bookstagram #preorder

Looking forward to publishing this beautiful collection of poems by Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social 📖 Judas Goat, coming to the UK and Ireland in October 2025. Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/JudasGoat87 #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #preorder

Sarah Ghazal Ali (@sarahali.bsky.social) signing some copies of Theophanies which can be found at Housmans Bookshop and Round Table Books ✨ the87press.co.uk/shop #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch #order #smallpresspublishing

We'd like to invite you to our 7th birthday at Lala Books in Camberwell! dove/Christine Kirubi (WILDPLASSEN), Karenjit Sandhu (young girls! and gestalt), and Luke Roberts (Home Radio) will be reading followed by discussion and Q&A. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-at-...

Victoria Adukwei Bulley is back with another workshop 14th of September! Grab your spot at Out of Ruin: a poetry workshop✨ Register here: tinyurl.com/5yyntehh #VictoriaAdukweiBulley #PoetryWorkshop #the87press #PoetryWriting #PoetryCommunity #CreativeWriting #WorkshopAlert #RegisterNow

Don't mind us, just admiring the cover of Dear Diaspora by @susanpoet.bsky.social. Coming September 2025! Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief against the backdrop of the Vietnamese diaspora. Pre-order: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dear...

Looking back at when we published Kat Sinclair's The Pharmacy, a fiery second collection about the life experience of care amidst austerity. Grab your copy in our online shop! www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/the-p... #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #smallpress

In honour of International Friendship Day, we'd like to shine a light on the great literary friendship of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker. Get a glimpse at it in The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989. www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/the-l...

Such a pleasure to have Meera Ghanshamdas chairing the discussion tomorrow at the Hummingbirds event! She will be joined by @rhonierika.bsky.social and @azad-ashim.bsky.social at Round Table Books. This event is free with registration tinyurl.com/34bx7k5n #the87press #PoetryCommunity #letscreate