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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We are thrilled to be publishing the UK edition of Fady Joudah’s new book Exhibit G. “In this searing assemblage of poems, essays and photographs, Joudah uses his position as both poet and doctor to examine and respond to the catastrophic impact of Israel’s assault on the people of Gaza.”
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Join us on Friday 9 October 2026! We're teaming up for an evening of live poetry with Bad Betty and Out-Spoken Press poets and the launch of Perla Kantarjian’s debut collection, You Must Become Field @lalabooks.london 9 Oct, 7pm Come through. Free | register > OSxBB.eventbrite.co.uk
Out-Spoken Press X Bad Betty 

POETRY NIGHT
9 OCTOBER 2026, 7PM
Celebrating the power and work of independent presses and the launch of Perla Kantarjian's debut collection, You Must Become Field.

PERLA KANTARJIAN
ASMAA TAYSER DWAIMA
WILLIAM WYLD
AZAD ASHIM SHARMA
MANDISA APENA

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LALA BOOKS, 4a Grove Lane
Camberwell SE5 8SY
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We’re pleased to share our new home at outspokenpress.com - find our latest titles and backlist, workshops, courses & our playback library - plus gift cards & our new tote bags. We hope it'll be a much cleaner, easier experience to navigate for you and are excited for you to take a look around!
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We’ve Moved!
Introducing chat wall new Out-Spoken Press website
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We’re pleased to share our new home at outspokenpress.com - find our latest titles and backlist, workshops, courses & our playback library - plus gift cards & our new tote bags. We hope it'll be a much cleaner, easier experience to navigate for you and are excited for you to take a look around!
Out-Spoken Press logo
We’ve Moved!
Introducing chat wall new Out-Spoken Press website
Www.outspokenpress.com
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A few spots left on our online workshop 'Lyric Narrative: Beyond Plot' this Saturday 22 Aug with Rachel Long Register www.outspokenldn.com/shop/beyondp... Find out more about all our Autumn workshops & save on registering for 2 or more: www.outspokenldn.com/online-works...
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🌀HYPERFOCUS in Autumn 2026: Register for our next 4-week, thematically-focused online poetry courses. 3 new themes, 6 brilliant tutors: SEPT - Climate - Pascale Petit & Tishani Doshi OCT - Ekphrasis - Rachael Allen & Lucy Mercer NOV - Home - Anthony Joseph & Helen Mort outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
👁️ WINTER SALE 👁️ 20% off Books till till midnight UK Sunday >> Outspokenldn.com/shop
Winter Sale 20% off books - Out-Spoken Press

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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Welcome meeting for Gaza NextGen language project yesterday All respect & gratitude to Programme Director Amani, co-admin Aliya and 🙏 to all the participating students & tutors ❤️‍🔥
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We’re excited to let you know about the new HYPERFOCUS thematically focused four-week online poetry courses launching January 2026. Over four months, eight talented tutors will draw on four concentrated themes - Grief, Parents, Eros & Resistance. outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus
Thematically-focused online poetry courses
HYPER FOCUS
Four months, four themes:
grief - parents - eros - resistance
NEW FOR 2026
Spanning four months, Jan-April 2026, with eight of the UK's best tutors, the courses will draw on four concentrated themes:
GRIEF, PARENTS, EROS and RESISTANCE.
outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus
Each month, two leading poets will focus on a specific theme across four generative Tuesday evening workshops. Classes are designed for all levels, offering key insights and prompts into how we can write in and around each theme.
You can either select a course that relates to you and your existing work, or register for the whole set.
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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Delighted to be a tutor for this exciting new course from @outspokenpress.bsky.social
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We’re excited to let you know about the new HYPERFOCUS thematically focused four-week online poetry courses launching January 2026. Over four months, eight talented tutors will draw on four concentrated themes - Grief, Parents, Eros & Resistance. outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus
Thematically-focused online poetry courses
HYPER FOCUS
Four months, four themes:
grief - parents - eros - resistance
NEW FOR 2026
Spanning four months, Jan-April 2026, with eight of the UK's best tutors, the courses will draw on four concentrated themes:
GRIEF, PARENTS, EROS and RESISTANCE.
outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus
Each month, two leading poets will focus on a specific theme across four generative Tuesday evening workshops. Classes are designed for all levels, offering key insights and prompts into how we can write in and around each theme.
You can either select a course that relates to you and your existing work, or register for the whole set.
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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🇯🇲🙌🏾 Thank you to all who joined us online last night to raise funds for Jamaica, beautiful gathering of poetry and music and community and connection, loved it, love you, @outspokenpress.bsky.social here’s to more of this good stuff soon! BIGlove Xx
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
You can still DONATE to help those in Jamaica affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastation & WATCH the recording of last night With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Delighted to share the cover and publisher blurb for my debut poetry collection – out Feb 12th but available for pre-order from @outspokenpress.bsky.social www.outspokenldn.com/shop/rabbits
In Simon Maddrell’s wide and bracing world, childhood orbits the voice of a distant and sometimes dangerous parent. Memories of sex parties, dead friends and estranged lovers straddle the spaces between feeling and thought, loss and fatalism. lamping wild rabbits is a brave and expansive multiverse, exploring sexuality, queer desire, memory recall and testimony. With poems that pay homage to the late Derek Jarman, to verses which situate themselves in and around the Isle of Man, exploring Britain’s colonial presence through the subverted interplay of English and the Manx language.
A poly-vocal and multifaceted debut which is unafraid to confront the shame and stigma of HIV, while never allowing the poems to lose shape or pace, altering the lens to bring the reader’s attention to birdsong and the queer body in nature.
Maddrell has achieved a distinct and totally convincing sound through the literary geography of lamping wild rabbits, one that gives the impression it’s been everywhere and returned because it survived.
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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
excuse the typo, here's that link again, thanks for your solidarity and help xx www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
eventbrite.co.uk
Poets Read For Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser
An online evening of poetry, raising funds for Food for the Poor and Support Jamaica to support those affected by Hurricane Melissa.
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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
ocean and yellow poster, text reads:

POETS READ FOR
HURRICANE MELISSA
RELIEF FUNDRAISER
WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2025
INTRODUCTION BY AKALA

ROGER ROBINSON / MALIKA BOOKER / KEITH JARRETT
RICHARD GEORGES / SAFIYA SINCLAIR / ISABELLE BAAFI
RAYMOND ANTROBUS / ANTHONY VAHNI CAPILDEO
KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF / COURTTIA NEWLAND
COURTNEY CONRAD / MUNI PILGRIM / DZIFA BENSON
SHANNON SMITH-MEEKINGS / ANTHONY JOSEPH
CASEY BAILEY / SALENA GODDEN
KARIM KAMAR ON PIANO / HOSTED BY LEONE ROSS 

Raising funds to support the Jamaican Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund and Food for the Poor Jamaica's Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund. All donations will be split equally between these funds, and any additional organisations added.

OUT SPOKEN PRESS
ONLINE / DONATION TICKETS
7-9PM UK / 2-4PM EST
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
With the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, we’re hosting an online event to raise funds to help those affected Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
POETS READ FOR
HURRICANE MELISSA
RELIEF FUNDRAISER
WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2025
INTRODUCTION BY AKALA
ROGER ROBINSON / MALIKA BOOKER / KEITH JARRETT
RICHARD GEORGES / SAFIYA SINCLAIR / ISABELLE BAAFI
RAYMOND ANTROBUS
ANTHONY VAHNI CAPILDEO
KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF / COURTTIA NEWLAND
COURTNEY CONRAD / MUNI PILGRIM / DZIFA BENSON
SHANNON SMITH-MEEKINGS / ANTHONY JOSEPH
CASEY BAILEY / SALENA GODDEN
KARIM KAMAR ON PIANO / HOSTED BY LEONE ROSS
Raising funds to support the Jamaican Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund and Food for the Poor Jamaica's Hurricane Melissa Relief Fund. All donations will be split equally between these funds, and any additional organisations added.
OUT
SPOKEN PRESS
ONLINE / DONATION TICKETS
7-9PM UK / 2-4PM EST
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
We’re delighted to share with you the cover for LAMPING WILD RABBITS, the debut collection by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social forthcoming 12 February 2026. PRE-ORDERS are up now / outspokenldn.com/rabbits
Cover of lamping wild rabbits by Simon Maddrell: title in off white block condensed sans serif caps, over a sketched black rabbit, on blueIn Simon Maddrell's wide and bracing world, childhood orbits the voice of a distant and sometimes dangerous parent. Memories of sex parties, dead friends and estranged lovers straddle the spaces between feeling and thought, loss and fatalism. lamping wild rabbits is a brave and expansive multiverse, exploring sexuality, queer desire, memory recall and testimony. With poems that pay homage to the late Derek Jarman, to verses which situate themselves in and around the Isle of Man, exploring Britain's colonial presence through the subverted interplay of English and the Manx language.
A poly-vocal and multifaceted debut which is unafraid to confront the shame and stigma of HIV, while never allowing the poems to lose shape or pace, altering the lens to bring the reader's attention to birdsong and the queer body in nature.
Maddrell has achieved a distinct and totally convincing sound through the literary geography of lamping wild rabbits, one that gives the impression it's been everywhere and returned because it survived.
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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The Scotsman's Poem of the Week 'Scene 4. Lisa Simpson Interrogates the Untranslatability of the Joke' by Juana Adcock.
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 21/10/2025
On Sunday, the Forward Prize winners will be revealed! In the run-up to the announcement, we’re exploring some of the books nominated in the Best Collection category: first up, Juana Adcock on how she wrote I SUGAR THE BONES: lrb.me/098c4c @forwardprizes.bsky.social @outspokenpress.bsky.social
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire
<article data-history-node-id="430306" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-four-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-raids-one" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-four-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-raids-one" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">Israeli forces carried out multiple raids across the occupied West Bank&nbsp;on Friday dawn, arresting four Palestinian youths in separate incidents in Nablus and Tulkarm.</p> <p>In Nablus, soldiers infiltrated al-Makhfiyya neighbourhood, followed by the entry of military vehicles. They raided a home and fired live bullets inside, injuring Ehab Abu Rayala in the leg before arresting him. A second young man was also detained during the operation, according to the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa).</p> <p>Meanwhile, in the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarm, Israeli forces arrested Ahmad Saif Fuqaha and Fares Ayman Najjar after storming their homes.</p> <p>These arrests come amid ongoing Israeli military operations and heightened tensions across the occupied West Bank.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The genocide is not over. Ceasefire is not liberation. Keep giving. chuffed.org/project/help... “Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”
Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support. Donate today: https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🌟 Huge congratulations to Fady Joudah, recipient of the 2025 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded by the Academy of American Poets, for the most outstanding poetry published in the United States in the previous year for [...]
Black and white head shot of poet Fady Joudah, a man with stubble and a bald head. Banner at bottom reads: Fady Joudah, 2025 Winner, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prizeannouncing
The 2025 Recipients
of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the James Laughlin Award
academy of american
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Noemi Press @noemipress.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Submissions are still open for the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! Get your manuscript in by Wednesday October 15th!
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
‘An alarmingly accomplished debut. A long way now from traditional elegy […] off-kilter and riveting: one dare not look away.’ —Fiona Benson ✨ It's publication week for Madeleine Kruhly's To my father, now dead in room 318 ✨ Out on Thurs > outspokenldn.com/shop/room318
‘An alarmingly accomplished debut. A long way now from traditional elegy, Kruhly’s poems speak of nourishment and squalor, palliative care and dirty linen, tenderness and harm. Their unnerving domestic noire is both off-kilter and riveting: one dare not look away.’ —Fiona BensonCover of To my father, now dead in room 318 by Madeleine Kruhly. An anatomical heart in black on a textured beige background
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀 $2000 US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social UK publication with Out-Spoken Press Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Big news. Big. Huge. 🌝 Delighted that Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero is shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025 🙏 to the judging panel & congratulations to all shortlisted poets. We hope this recognition can bring her work to more UK readers 🙏
TS Eliot Prize 2025 shortlisted collections:

Gillian Allnutt Lode Bloodaxe Books
Isabelle Baafi Chaotic Good Faber & Faber
Catherine-Esther Cowie Heirloom Carcanet Press
Paul Farley When it Rained for a Million Years Picador Poetry
Vona Groarke Infinity Pool The Gallery Press
Sarah Howe Foretokens Chatto Poetry
Nick Makoha The New Carthaginians Penguin Books
Tom Paulin Namanlagh Faber & Faber
Natalie Shapero Stay Dead Out-Spoken Press
Karen Solie Wellwater Picador PoetryShortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025 - Natalie Shapero, Stay Dead
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
HUGE congratulations to Natalie Shapero on the shortlisting of STAY DEAD for this year’s @tseliotprize.bsky.social !!! 🏜️📺💙
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T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist! Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone." Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Review of our September title, STAY DEAD by Natalie Shapero, in LARB “Shapero’s mordant humor and intellectual agility throw a challenge to the reader: In contemporary life, are we dead or alive? Could we be both, or in between?” >> lareviewofbooks.org/article/coug...
Los Angeles
LA ReviewofBoks RB
Cough Up the Pill
David Schurman Wallace reviews Natalie Shapero's new collection "Stay Dead."
By David Schurman Wallace • September 9, 2025
POETRY08:30
Los Angeles
In all of her books, Shapero's strength comes through her thinking on the page. Without being rote, she is careful to develop the thread of an idea from each sentence to the next. Reading her work, it becomes clear how comfortable some contemporary poets have become with "leaps" that are more like abysses, relying on the reader to assume that there is a hidden connection that may not really exist. In Stay Dead, the connections tend to stay tight, working the starting idea of the poem for more material, and are less likely to digress into unusual pockets of fact or language that made some of her earlier work lighter, if still rich.
Humor remains, but the speech is starker-life or death, or death and then life again.
Varied and surprising as they are, there is something bracing about the negativity of the poems in Stay Dead.
They are uncompromising in their refusal of easy answers, the little lift that comes from appealing to love (or some other "basic human emotion") at the end of the poem. An intriguing suggestion comes in one of the epigraphs between sections, courtesy of Monet: "I FIND MYSELF DISGUSTED BY MY PROFESSION." Fatigued by experience, fatigued by the speaking voice, the desire to lose oneself can also register as a dissent against poetry's platitudes, which might make a career if you're lucky, but which don't seem to live up to the world's despair.
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry MS? Check out this opportunity open to writers in English located anywhere - win $2000, US & UK publication Deadline: 15 Oct Send your MS, share widely >> noemipress.submittable.com
Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry manuscript?
DEADLINE EXTENDED - ENTER BY 15 OCTOBER
$2000 PRIZE
plus
US PUBLICATION
with Noemi Press
and
UK PUBLICATION with Out-Spoken Press
NOEMI
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GUEST JUDGE:
Farid Matuk
SERIES EDITORS:
Fady Joudah, Hayan Charara
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Etel Adnan Poetry Prize
For a first or second book by a writer of Arab heritage
NOEMIPRESS.SUBMITTABLE.COM
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Last call for our next course running Mondays 7-9pm, 6 Oct - 1 Dec Tutors: Ella Frears, Jack Underwood, Anthony Anaxagorou Starting on Monday - don’t miss out! outspokenldn.com/academy-plus
OUT SPOKEN
academy plus
Nine-week Online Poetry Course
Join Ella Frears, Jack Underwood and Anthony Anaxagorou for our nine-week online poetry course.
Workshops: Mondays 7-9pm UK
plus
academy
6 October - 1 December 2025
outspokenldn.com/academy
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
DEADLINE EXTENDED If you’re a poet of Arab heritage, writing in English anywhere in the world, with a poetry manuscript - you now have until 15 October to enter the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! > $2000 > US publication with Noemi Press > UK publication with Out-Spoken Press noemipress.submittable.com
Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry manuscript?
DEADLINE EXTENDED - ENTER BY 15 OCTOBER
$2000 PRIZE
plus
US PUBLICATION
with Noemi Press
and
UK PUBLICATION with Out-Spoken Press
NOEMI
GUEST JUDGE:
Farid Matuk
SERIES EDITORS:
Fady Joudah, Hayan Charara
OUT SPOKEN PRESS
Etel Adnan Poetry Prize
For a first or second book by a writer of Arab heritage
NOEMIPRESS.SUBMITTABLE.COM
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Haia Mohammed has arrived safely to take up her scholarship place at Goldsmiths University. A massive thank you to everyone who emailed their MP's regarding waiving the biometrics for the Gaza 40. They are all survivors of genocide. Love to the extraordinary heart, strength and resilience of Haia.
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
💐 Today we are TEN 💐 With huge gratitude to every poet we have published and worked with, the whole Out-Spoken team, and every one of you who’ve read or recommended an Out-Spoken Press title or joined us for one of our workshops or events. THANK YOU 🙏
Celebrating 10 years of Out-Spoken Press
2015–2025

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Sarah Howe has a new book of poems coming out, Foretokens -- I like Loop of Jade. Have just seen that she is included also in this anthology of conversations between poets of ESEA heritage. #poetry
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Congratulations to the wonderful @juanapoetry.bsky.social on the longlisting of I Sugar the Bones for this years #SaltireBookAwards for Poetry! 💫💫💫
The Saltires
Scotland's
National Book
Awards
POETRY LONGLIST 2025
I Sugar the Bones
Poems
Juana Adcock
A thumbnail image of the book cover sits by a black and white author headshot of Juana AdcockThe Saltires
POETRY
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I SUGAR
THE
BONES
Poems
Juana
Adcock
Scotland's
National Book
Awards
LONGLIST 2025
The judges said:
A visceral, formally confident, compelling
collection. The fusing of body image with exploration of migration and language has fascinating results.
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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
📣 Orders are now open for our latest issue, Wasafiri 123! Find interviews with Andre Bagoo, Cato Pedder, and Christina Sharpe, three translated Tamil poets, a poem by Devika Rege, and more fiction, reviews, articles, and poems. www.wasafiri.org/issues/wasaf...
wasafiri.org
Wasafiri 123
Inside Wasafiri 123, you'll find interviews with Andre Bagoo and Christina Sharpe, a lead feature poem by Devika Rege, our 2024 Essay Prize winning articles…
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Sickening. Starmer has nothing to say when I confront him about the Israeli companies parading "battle-tested" weapons at the #DSEI2025 Arms Fair in London - in other words, weapons that have been used to kill men, women and children in Gaza #StopDSEI
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
💫 National Book Award longlisted collection Stay Dead 💫 www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
newyorker.com
The 2025 National Book Awards Longlist
Through Friday, The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction.
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
‘Shapero leaves a huge dent in oblivion to show us that it’s real.’ —Jack Underwood STAY DEAD by Natalie Shapero OUT NOW In her fourth collection, Shapero examines performance, power, comedy and despair through the lenses of method acting and abstract expressionism. outspokenldn.com/shop/staydead
Cover of Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero: title appears in fat black eurostile caps with “stay” above and “dead” below a photo collage of b&w Joshua tree desert and old tv set, with a blue-green gradient sky. outspokenldn.com/shop/staydead'In Stay Dead, Natalie Shapero leads us out from the wreckage into the brightly smouldering aftermath more precariously mortal, more humane and attentive and vivid than before. Her relentlessly dark, metaphysical poems of dying and not dying, surviving and not surviving, are as bleakly comical as they are halting.
Shapero always keeps her lyrics effortlessly turning, veering her syntax, squinting and tacking
- from abstract paintings, movie quotations and the private ownership of coastal redwoods, to the ocean hurling itself onto the rocks, the past, the afterlife, the dead that stay dead, and the dead that don't. Shapero leaves a huge dent in oblivion to show us that it's real.'
— Jack Underwood
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STAY DEAD
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this last night! And huge 🙏 to Natalie Shapero, Prageeta Sharma & @aanaxagorou.bsky.social 💙💙
Zoom screenshot of Natalie Shapero smiling while holding up a copy of Stay DeadZoom screenshot of Prageeta Sharma holding up the MS of her new book
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Huge thanks to @PoetryBookSoc for including STATE OF PLAY as Book of the Week in their ESEA Heritage Month picks — this book, Eds. @jennywcreative.bsky.social & Eddie Tay, and its wide range of perspectives was a joy to work on 🙏 outspokenldn.com/shop/state
BOOK OF THE WEEK

STATE OF PLAY
Poets of East & Southeast Asian
Heritage in Conversation

EDITED BY
JENNIFER WONG & EDDIE TAY

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SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM
ARTHUR SZE
JENNIFER LEE TSAI
TROY CABIDA
SARAH HOWE
ROMALYN ANTE
VICTORIA CHANG
SEAN WAI KEUNG
HELEN QUAH
MARYLYN TAN
MARY JEAN CHAN
JAY GAO YANYI
R.A. VILLANUEVA
CHEN CHEN
WILL HARRIS
LAURA JANE LEE
JOSHUA IP
NATALIE LINH BOLDERSTON
L KIEW KIT FAN
LI-YOUNG LEE
DONG LI
THERESA MUÑOZ
MONICA YOUN
LOUISE LEUNG
NINA MINGYA POWLES
TIM TIM CHENG
ANTONY HUEN MUKAHANG LIMBU
JENNY XIE
ETHAN YU
ERIC YIP
LORA SUPANDI
AARON MANIAM
FELIX CHOW
JINHAO XIE
ALVIN PANG
LEONG LIEW GEOK KHAIRANI BAROKKA
This crucial anthology from Out-Spoken Press collects together conversations between poets of ESEA heritage to bring us closer to understanding important questions about culture, heritage, history, and language, and urge us to "demand bolder and more imaginative ways of reading." (Sandeep Parmar) Get your copy here.
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
TONIGHT! Join us at 7pm UK for the online launch of Natalie Shapero’s STAY DEAD - with Prageeta Sharma & hosted by @aanaxagorou.bsky.social Free | register to join the zoom: shaperostaydead.eventbrite.co.uk
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Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero Online Launch
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Natalie Shapero’s fourth collection, Stay Dead.
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
TONIGHT! Join us at 7pm UK for the online launch of Natalie Shapero’s STAY DEAD - with Prageeta Sharma & hosted by @aanaxagorou.bsky.social Free | register to join the zoom: shaperostaydead.eventbrite.co.uk
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Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero Online Launch
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Natalie Shapero’s fourth collection, Stay Dead.
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Really looking forward to the online launch of Natalie Shapero's new book with @outspokenpress.bsky.social tomorrow!
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Tueta Hoxha and Casey Goonan are still on hunger strike. We need people to keep emailing calling and pressuring media to get this story out. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com
TOOLKIT FOR T. HOXHA
TOOLKIT FOR T. HOXHA AND CASEY GOONAN 1. Email for HMP Petersborough (Template): To: pbfamilymatters@sodexogov.co.uk, tony.simpson@sodexogov.co.uk, Ian.whiteside@sodexogov.co.uk, PBgeneralenquiries@...
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A little Eurostile 💙
The word “ho” in 3 typefaces next to 3 different architectural arch shapes. Aldo Novarese, diagram accompanying his article, “Eurostile, a Synthetic Expression of Our Times” in Pagina, International Magazine of Graphic Design, No. 4, January 1964.⁠1-3. Eurostile's outline is already familiar
to us. Without realising it, it is present whenever we look at a series of windows of vehicles, at a television set, or at very modern buildings.
La forma dell'Eurostile ci è ormai familiare: senza avvedercene essa è presente quando osserviamo la sequenza dei moderni finestrini dei mezzi di locomozione, il - video televisivo o le costruzioni moderne. 
Diagram of an old style tv set next to a Eurostile o.
Aldo Novarese, diagram accompanying his article, “Eurostile, a Synthetic Expression of Our Times” in Pagina, International Magazine of Graphic Design, No. 4, January 1964.⁠
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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🏜️📺 Join us this MONDAY 1 Sept for the online launch of Natalie Shapero’s STAY DEAD 📺🏜️ 7pm UK / free - register: shaperostaydead.eventbrite.co.uk
Online launch Monday 1 Sept 7pm UK
Stay Dead
Natalie Shapero with Prageeta Sharma hosted by Anthony Anaxagorou
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