Boiled Owls a book by Azad Ashim Sharma. In Boiled Owls, Azad Ashim Sharma delves into the kaleidoscopic terrain of cocaine addiction to explore the strain it puts on his speaker's interior, as well as family and those in close proximity. Wi...

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WATCH: a reading by Azad Ashim Sharma from his compelling, audacious #BoiledOwls.

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Planetary Death Is a Hopeless Drug Addict I'm sick of fighting currents, toxic with our need of currency and our hope for revolution.

READ an extract at @poetrydaily.bsky.social from Azad Ashim Sharma's dazzling poetry collection #BoiledOwls, shortlisted for Jhalak Poetry Prize

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Narco-poetics and the Voice of Recovery: A Conversation with Azad Ashim Sharma - The Rumpus Hope stems in the imagination, in our capacity to re-imagine how life on this finite planet could coexist with non-human life and the cycles of shift that give us a cool summer breeze and the hurrican...

Fascinating INTERVIEW at @therumpus.net with Azad Ashim Sharma about #BoiledOwls, shortlisted for Jhalak Poetry Prize, narco-poetics and poetics as transformative practice.

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Poetry Review: Rina Shamilov Reads Azad Ashim Sharma’s Collection Boiled Owls The tenderness of Boiled Owls allows for an exchange of lamentation and suffering (albeit of a different kind) between the poem’s speaker and those he loves. The poems revive memory and depic…

REVIEW at Heavy Feather Review / @hfr.bsky.social: Azad Ashim Sharma's #BoiledOwls ‘offers a corporeal freshness that is enchanting and evocative...’

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Blue background with Jhalak Prize logo (of folded books), which image is also repeated across the background. Image of cover for 'Boiled Owls' with poet's name, Azad Ashim Sharma. Text: 2025 Shortlisted Jhalak Poetry Prize in partnership with National Book Tokens (includes logo)

Blue background with Jhalak Prize logo (of folded books), which image is also repeated across the background. Image of cover for 'Boiled Owls' with poet's name, Azad Ashim Sharma. Text: 'Poetry that deftly mines the conjoined space between thought and feeling, discourse and lyric'. Jason Allen-Paisant, judge 2025 Shortlisted Jhalak Poetry Prize in partnership with National Book Tokens (includes logo)

Today we feature Azah Ashim Sharma, whose intriguingly titled #BoiledOwls @outspokenpress.bsky.social is on the shortlist for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize. Judge @jallenpaisant.bsky.social calls it: 'Poetry that deftly mines the conjoined space between thought and feeling, discourse and lyric.'