📚Act Announcement📚

Sam Fisher is joining us this winter for our Mushaira on the 6th of December at the iconic Cafe OTO!

Book your ticket here: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W

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🎉Act Announcement🎉

We have Kazim Ali joining us virtually with a reading of the newly published Indian Winter at our coming Mushaira on the 6th of December.

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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...

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Red background with a cover reveal and shadow of the book of Indian Winter by Kazim Ali. The Cover is black with white text and yellow squiggles on the top left, red illustrated squiggly boxes on the top right and grey/white boxes and squiggles of a similar nature on the center and bottom.

Black background with yellow headline text reading: Indian Winter Publishing November 2025. With blue the87press logo on the bottom left. Center of the page is red text that reads: Indian Winter finds itself where the travel diary, the künstlerroman, poetry, and autofiction meet through a queer writer of colour grieving for a beloved.

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

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black and white image of megan pinto on the bottom right. Text reads: Megan Pinto - Her poems can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Lit Hub. - Won the Anne Halley Prize - Won an Amy Award from Poets & Writers

black and white image of susan nguyen on the bottom right. Text on the page reads: Susan Nguyen - Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Outstanding Achievement - Award from the Association of Asian American Studies - New Mexico-Arizona Book Award - finalist for the Julie Suk Award

black and white image of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on the bottom right. Text reads: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha - Multi award winning Palestinian poet, essayist, and translator. - Won the National Book Award for Poetry

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

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Graphic of TheHythe Review logo, Open Library of Humanities logo and the87press puzzle logo. With text in the middle reading: Introducing The Hythe Review a collaboration with Open Library of Humanities & the87press. Issue 1 forthcoming March 2026

Two quotes reading: "I’m excited to be part of The Hythe Review, an open-access journal that hopes to shape not just what we read but also how and why - with an ethic of care, critical rigour, and collectivity at its heart. I deeply look forward to supporting and being shaped by the many brilliant writers whose work will find a home here." -Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Poetry and Reviews Editor. "I'm delighted to work with the Hythe Review to publish critical and creative radical writing that speaks with and through the current conjuncture." -Dr. Abeera Khan (SOAS), Non-Fiction Editor

Two quotes reading: “Working together, the OLH and the87press can begin the difficult task of tackling entrenched inequalities in the under-representation of marginalised writers in publishing.” - Professor Caroline Edwards, OLH Executive Director. “The Hythe Review will build laterally, fostering a space for critical dialogue which will improve the reception and accessibility of poetry in the UK whilst also shining the light on non-fiction publications that mobilise critical insights gleaned from our global and local contexts.” - Azad Ashim Sharma, The87press Founding Director

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/

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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...

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Last week we packed up our first few orders for the87press poetry book subscription 2025-6 ✨🛍️

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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!

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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

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Saba Keramati @sabadilla15.bsky.social signing some copies of Self-Mythology. Look for them at Round Table Books and Housmans Bookshop!

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Learn more about some of the authors included in the87press poetry book subscription 2025-6 📖📚

Full list here: www.the87press.co.uk/poetrybooksu...
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✨ 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-...

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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

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Sarah Ghazal Ali (@sarahali.bsky.social) signing some copies of Theophanies which can be found at Housmans Bookshop and Round Table Books ✨

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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

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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!

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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

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Don't miss out on our poetry book subscription 2025-6 📖📚

Find our more on our website at the87press.co.uk/poetrybooksubscription

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The wonderfully talented Susan Nguyen launched Dear Diaspora at our last Mushaira in Cafe OTO. Find her signed copies Housmans Bookshop and Round Table Books 📚

Otherwise you can pre-order the UK edition of @susanpoet.bsky.social's Dear Diaspora: tinyurl.com/5a3u9r2x

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We're pleased to announce that we’re publishing The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr (@omarsakrpoet) and Safdar Ahmed in October this year!

The Nightmare Sequence is a searing response to the atrocities in Gaza and beyond since October 2023.

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We’re thrilled to see that Tom Branfoot's Parliament of Jets has been shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem - Written. Congratulations!

We'll be publishing Branfoot's debut poetry collection, Volatile, in October 2026!

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We’re thrilled to see that Sarah Ghazal Ali’s (@sarahali.bsky.social) Theophanies has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize For Best First Collection!

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Welcome to the talented Megan Pinto (@megg-bean.bsky.social) joining the87press! We will be bringing her poetry collection, Saints of Little Faith, to the UK and Ireland in November 2025.

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Graphic of Victoria Adukwei Bulley with flowery faded background and text that says: "Out of Ruin: a poetry workshop with Victoria Adukwei Bulley 14th Sept. 2025 6 - 8pm GMT A Virtual Workshop £32.99 + booking fees Registrations will close 12th Sept. 4pm". the87press puzzle logo and the arts council england logo

Graphic of faded background with flowers with text that reads: "What kind of poems can be written now? How and to what ends must language function? Drawing from texts by poet Harmony Holiday and scholar Bedour Alagraa, this workshop explores how poems might navigate and be shaped by ideas of ruin, catastrophe and disaster. Participants will experiment with myth, breakages in sense-making and form on the page in search of a poetics that both disrupts and reinvigorates our relation to language."

It's a delight to be working with Victoria Adukwei Bulley to bring another workshop to you on the 14th of September ☀️Out of Ruin: a poetry workshop☀️

For more visit here: tinyurl.com/5yyntehh

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Text that reads: "What's included? For a single non-recurring payment of £80.99 you will recieve: - 7 books prioritising women, BPoC, and queer writers based in the US. - 1 of our exclusive ‘Late Modernist’ tote bag featuring a side pocket made with recycled materials. Only available for UK and Ireland". There's a graphic of a tote bag with the text "Late Modernist" on the right center. Graphic of a red arrow on the right side. Graphic of the87press puzzle logo on the left side.

Text that reads: "Why Subscribe? - save 30% on the RRP of each book with complimentary delivery and totebag. -limited edition raw uncoated cover paperbacks with french flaps on bespoke FSC paper. -support BIPOC writers, women writers, and queer writers. -support the87press, an independent non-profit publishing house." Graphic of a red arrow on the right side. Graphic of the87press puzzle logo on the left side.

Graphic of a time line that stretches from 2025-2026 with the text: "timeline" under which is listed months with title of books with the author: "august, get our exclusive late modernist totebag in the mail, september, Dear Diaspora susan nguyen, october, Judas Goat gabrielle bates, november, saints of little faith megan pinto, december, something about living lena tuffaha, february, 回 / Return emily lee luan, march, the museum of unnatural histories annie wenstrup, and may selected poems pat parker." Graphic of the87press puzzle logo on the left side.

We're thrilled to be announcing our poetry book subscription 2025-6 📖📚
The subscription includes our 'Late Modernist' tote bag made from recycled cotton, as well as 7 books that prioritises women, BIPOC and queer writers.

Find our more at the87press.co.uk/poetrybooksubscription

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Some words from Taylor Le Melle for Art Monthly (‪@artmonthly.bsky.social‬) on 'WILDPLASSEN' by dove / Chris Kirubi.

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Our director Azad Ashim Sharma (@azad-ashim.bsky.social‬) talking about Sabeen Choudhry's debut collection: Rimming the Event Horizon.

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COVER REVEAL! Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen (@susanpoet.bsky.social), coming September 2025 with the87press

This powerful collection, previously published by University of Nebraska Press, 2021, is a multi-award winner.

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Don't miss out on Alycia Pirmohamed's (@alycia.bsky.social) next workshop: Writing in Relation: a poetry workshop.

19th May, 7 - 9pm
Register at the link in bio, limited places available!

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