Coming up NEXT WEEK and ONLINE on June 17, this superb event at @brightbookfest with our 2025 winners and chaired by our director @ProfSunnySingh. Book ASAP: brightonbookfestival.co.uk/products/jhala…

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Your #JhalakPrize25 winners are here 🙌🏾 🎉

Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman, King of Nothing and Collected Poems are each luminous, immersive, vital books 👏🏿📚

Congratulations, N.S. Nuseibeh, Nathanael Lessore & Mimi Khalvati!

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BUY the brave, monumental, Biblical in scale and scope, #Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize.

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WATCH: A reading by the late Gboyega Odubanjo. His debut collection #Adam is shortlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize

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Donate to Gboyega Odubanjo – beloved son, brother, friend, organized by Rose Odubanjo Loved by many and widely recognised as a voice of his generation, 27-yea… Rose Odubanjo needs your support for Gboyega Odubanjo – beloved son, brother, friend

DONATE: Gboyega Odubanjo's family have a fundraiser to continue his incredible legacy by supporting low-income Black writers. As we honour his powerful #Adam, shortlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize, we request you consider contributing to this:

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Faber Books on X: "We are proud today to be publishing Gboyega Odubanjo's remarkable debut collection, Adam. Film visuals by Kareem Parkins-Brown, sound by Rei Sky. https://t.co/gshJgHvXcb https://t.co/wJ3hszhK9e" / X We are proud today to be publishing Gboyega Odubanjo's remarkable debut collection, Adam. Film visuals by Kareem Parkins-Brown, sound by Rei Sky. https://t.co/gshJgHvXcb https://t.co/wJ3hszhK9e

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Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo review – in memory of the missing Inspired by an unidentified boy found dead in the Thames, the first – and only – collection by the late poet is an imaginative meditation on death and those who disappear

REVIEW at @theguardian.com of Gboyega Odubanjo's #Adam, shortlisted for Jhalak Poetry Prize: ‘...a collection filled with unexpected leaps of imagination.’

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Judge Malika Booker sees 'A tender yet ambitious poetic that is both proverbial and praise song ... and elegiac lyricism.'

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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 'Adam' with poet's name, Gboyega Odubanjo. Text: 'A tender yet ambitious poetic that is both proverbial and praise song ... and elegiac lyricism.' Malika Booker, judge 2025 Shortlisted Jhalak Poetry Prize in partnership with National Book Tokens (includes logo)

The #JhalakPrize25 Awards are this evening and we have just enough time to feature the late shortlisted poet Gboyega Odubanjo's #Adam @faberbooks.bsky.social. This is especially poignant for us. Gboyega worked with IS&T on 'Runaways London' as a poet and as an editor on 'Uprising & Resistance'.

Gower St Presents: Jhalak Prize 2025 | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Gower St Presents: Jhalak Prize 2025 today.

SEE: Tonight (3rd June), @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social‬ with fellow Poetry Prize shortlistee Amaan Hyder and others from the Prose and C&YA Awards. Some tickets still available

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TOP DOLL: Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot 2024 a book by Karen McCarthy Woolf and Priscilla Layne. 'Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.' Bernardine Evaristo'If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.' M...

BUY @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social's riotous, hilarious, subversive verse novel #TopDoll.

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WATCH: A reading by @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social from her wild, weird and wonderful verse novel #TopDoll.

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Loved Barbie? Try this mad novel about a millionaire’s drug-addicted dolls Karen McCarthy Woolf imagines what went on in the plastic heads of a 104-year-old heiress’s toys in Top Doll, a weird and wild verse novel

REVIEW at @telegraphnews.bsky.social of @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social's riotous, subversive #TopDoll, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize: ‘a strange picaresque...I’ve not read anything quite like it.’

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Karen McCarthy Woolf – T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes • Poetry School Karen McCarthy Woolf talks about how she wrote her recent T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted prose novel 'Top Doll'.

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Top Doll Karen McCarthy Woolf(Dialogue Books, 2024); hbk, £20      Infinity is an episode long     and troubling to decipher [,]                                          Dolly How might a writer work…

REVIEW at DURA of @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social's verse novel, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize: #TopDoll is ‘...a blast, being outrageously, subversively, laugh-aloud funny.’

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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...

BUY #BoiledOwls by Azad Ashim Sharma, shortlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize.

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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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Rushika Wick - Horse | Broken Sleep Books Horse is a science fiction hybrid book exploring ecological trajectories and the role of participation and witness. Fragments from culture and communications in the 21st century are being examined by ...

BUY @rushikawick.bsky.social's #Horse from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social!

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WATCH: A reading by @rushikawick.bsky.social from her powerful, essential #Horse.

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In Conversation with Rushika Wick This month, we caught up with Rushika Wick. After a stellar poetry year and the release of her collection Afterlife As Trash, she reflects on the how and why of her work as well as its brilliant recep...

READ: A fascinating interview at @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social with @rushikawick.bsky.social whose brilliant #Horse is shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize:

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Reading Horse: Thoughts on the Digital Humanities in Rushika Wick's Newest Book Horse is only one letter different from house. A horse is ours and hours where a house is only yours or belonging to you all. It is not only the size, but the material requirements that make horses so...

REVIEW at Serendip Studio of @rushikawick.bsky.social's superb poetry collection, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize: "#Horse will serve as a mirror for humanity and more..."

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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 'Horse' with poet's name, Rushika Wick. Text: 'A work whose formal ambition and daring imprints itself on memory.' Jason Allen-Paisant, judge 2025 Shortlisted Jhalak Poetry Prize in partnership with National Book Tokens (includes logo)

The third poet shortlisted for the #JhalakPrize25 Poetry Prize that we are featuring is @rushikawick.bsky.social and her fine collection #Horse @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. Judge @jallenpaisant.bsky.social finds 'A work whose formal ambition and daring imprints itself on memory.'

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Gower St Presents: Jhalak Prize 2025 | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Gower St Presents: Jhalak Prize 2025 today.

JOIN the Jhalak Prize team for an evening of superb contemporary literature featuring Amaan Hyder, fellow Poetry Prize shortlistee
@karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social & more. Tues 3 June, 6.30pm (6pm welcome drinks). Waterstones Gower St #London.

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Self-Portrait With Family a book by Amaan Hyder. In Self-Portrait With Family, Amaan Hyder traces a personal history of family and queerness. With poems that focus on coming out, the collection depicts the relationship between a son and his parents,...

BUY Amaan Hyder's #SelfPortraitwithFamily.

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WATCH: A reading by Amaan Hyder from #SelfPortraitWithFamily, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize.
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READ at ‪@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social‬, this exquisite #shortstory (winner of The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2024) by Amaan Hyder, whose poetry collection #SelfPortraitwithFamily is shortlisted for Jhalak Poetry Prize

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Fiction | Reasons for Not Speaking by Amaan Hyder - The London Magazine From our December / January 2025, 'Reasons for not Speaking' by Amaan Hyder, winner of our 2024 Short Story Prize.

READ this exquisite #shortstory (winner of The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2024) by Amaan Hyder, whose poetry collection #SelfPortraitwithFamily is shortlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize

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