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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our Winter Mushaira! We had a lovely time celebrating the new publications from Sophia Terazawa and Kazim Ali, listening to performances including our guest readers: Samuel Fisher, Sunny Singh, and Clare Pollard, DJ Will René' tunes and Chef Yogi’s cuisine.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Happy Publication Day to Something about Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenatuffaha now available in the UK and Ireland 📖 www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/somet...

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

⛄Winter Sale❄️ 25% off selected titles for a limited time! Check out our bookshop for the full catalogue of books: www.the87press.co.uk/shop

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

📚Act Announcement📚 Clare Pollard is joining us this winter for our Mushaira on the 6th of December at the iconic Cafe OTO! Join us: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

A flip through Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha 📖 Recently short-listed for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 ✨

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🎁SURPRISE Act Announcement🎁 Our surprise guest Anthony Anaxagorou is joining us this SATURDAY for Mushaira at the iconic Cafe OTO! Join us: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Make sure to put your orders through ASAP before we go on break on December 10th! 📚 Discover excellent experimental literatures that prioritise radical, anti-colonial, anti-racist, and late modernist voices 🎁 Order online at our bookshop or anywhere else that sells books: the87press.co.uk/shop

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

📚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 #londonpoetry #letscreate #the87press #indiepress

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🎉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. Book your tickets here: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W #londonpoetry #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Looking at Sarah Ghazal Ali's Theophanies, Troubled Divinities is a workshop with Victoria Adukwei Bulley exploring the ways that the female or feminine body is positioned in contexts of the divine, religious, and the spiritual📖 Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees tr.ee/E9pu4g3use

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Happy Publication day to Indian Winter by Kazim Ali! Order now tr.ee/M-Ab10a1W-

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

📖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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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

" I was so blown away by Victoria. She balanced a space in which she shared ideas and writing and nurtured an environment where everyone shared their writing and/or perspectives." - workshop participant
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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

✨ 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

Cover of Emily lee luan's return, with chinese characters in black at the bottom and a water marked dark blue with yellow text.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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 🗓

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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...

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

✨ 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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

📖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...

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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

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.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

📖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...

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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

Graphic that reads on top: Happy publication day! An image of the book Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen is held up in focus in front of a bookshelf of books which are out of focus.

Image of the book Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen on top stacks of other books in a bookshop.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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.

Graphic with image of Emily lee luan on the lower half. With text that reads: Welcome to the87press! Emily Lee Luan, Author of 回 / Return, publishing February 2026.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

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- 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

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- 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

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- Multi award winning Palestinian poet, essayist, and translator.
- Won the National Book Award for Poetry

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

✨ 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

Green background with the cover of the book Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa. The cover is brown with antique detailings and wash painted with a shelf on top of some miscellaneous items.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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

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"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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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...

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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...

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Poet Laureate Announcement — The Caribbean Philosophical Association

Shifting the Geography of Reason.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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

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