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19/06/2026

We're delighted to feature Jonathan Crane in this special edition of Hummingbirds 💐

Jonathan Cane is Assistant Professor in History of Art at the University of Warwick. He holds a PhD in Art History from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and is the author of ‘Civilising Grass: The Art of the Lawn on the South African Highveld’ (2019), a q***r and decolonial study of gardening. His present work is concerned with the poetics of struggle against ecological oppression in 1980s South Africa and Brazil. His analysis centers landscape, in the photographic records from the anti-apartheid People’s Parks movement, and the natural history archives of deforestation caused by the BR-174 highway construction through the Brazilian Amazon.

Doors at 7 for a 7:30pm start. Close: 9pm
FREE with registration 📖 link in bio
Location: 10-11 Granville Arcade, Coldharbour Ln, London SW9 8PR

The event will begin with a short reading from Azad Ashim Sharma's new poetic work in progress. Then we will have Jordache read extracts from Indenture Aesthetics after which there will be a panel discussion chaired by Jonathan Cane (University of Warwick) with time allocated for audience participation.

18/06/2026

The Hythe Review — COMING SOON

17/06/2026

A glimpse inside one of our newest titles- TERROR COUNTER by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi ()
Crafted with care and ready to find its place on your bookshelf. Turn the pages with us and get your copy in the link in bio!

16/06/2026

We're excited to have Jordache A. Ellapen () join us and celebrate the publication of his book 'Indenture Aesthetics' for this special edition of Hummingbirds ✨

Indenture Aesthetics examines the visual and performance art practices of feminist, q***r, femme, and gender-nonconforming Afro-Indian and South African black artists to understand the paradoxes of freedom in contemporary South Africa. Tracing the afterlife of apartheid-era racial categories and revisiting Bantu Stephen Biko’s Black Consciousness, Ellapen theorizes South African blackness through the Indian Ocean World, showing how the development of an Afro-Indian identity after generations of indentured labor and segregation troubles persistent racial hierarchies.

Doors at 7 for a 7:30pm start. Close: 9pm
FREE with registration 📖 link in bio
Location: 10-11 Granville Arcade, Coldharbour Ln, London SW9 8PR

The event will begin with a short reading from Azad Ashim Sharma's new poetic work in progress. Then we will have Jordache read extracts from Indenture Aesthetics after which there will be a panel discussion chaired by Jonathan Cane (University of Warwick) with time allocated for audience participation.

Jordache A. Ellapen is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies in Culture and Media at the University of Toronto. He has spent the last two years (2024-2026) as an Associate Professor of Black Studies at the University of Rochester. With graduate training in South Africa and the USA, Ellapen works at the intersections of Global Black Studies, Feminist and Q***r Studies, and Visual Culture and Performance Studies. He has a particular interest in the making of race within the Indian Ocean world and genealogies of Blackness outside of the Atlantic World. He is the author of Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Q***r Limits of South African Blackness (Duke University Press, 2025), and a few award-winning articles including, “Siyakaka Feminism: African Anality and the Politics of Deviance in FAKA’s Performance Art Praxis,” published in Feminist Studies.

15/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to Mushaira last Friday ✨ It was very special

14/06/2026

Have an early look at Notes/Notas by the iconic Argentine poet Juan Gelman, translated by Arianna Afsari and Silvia Tandeciarz, coming out with us on the 9th of July.

We are proud to be brining Gelman's essential work to English-speaking readers in it's entirety for the first time. Readers interested in Gelman’s work can look forward to this powerful bilingual edition of Notes / Notas, a testament to resilience, linguistic brilliance, and enduring hope. Available to pre-order now in the link in bio 📖

Originally published in 1979, Notas / Notes was written in exile following Argentina’s 1976 military coup. In the face of state violence and profound personal loss—including the disappearance of his own son—Gelman forged a poetics of witness, memory, and resistance.

Juan Gelman (1930–2014) authored more than twenty books of poetry and is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary Spanish-language poets, as well as Argentina’s poet laureate. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious Miguel de Cervantes Prize, following in the footsteps of Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sabato, and Adolfo Bioy Casares.

12/06/2026

Join us TOMORROW for ☀ Mushaira ☀ an evening of poetry, music, and community. Rooted in the South Asian tradition of shared verse and gathering, Mushaira is a live literature series celebrating unique and emerging poetic voices.

13th of June doors open at 7, link in bio!

With readings by Palestinian poets Issam Zineh (.zineh) and Fargo Nissim Tbakhi ( ), Kurdish American poet Tracy Fuad (), Arianna Afsari reading from Juan Gelman’s Notes/Notas, and Jay Bernard ( ) reading from Pat Parker’s Selected Poems as well as selections from their own works.

This evening celebrates the publication of five poetry collections— Notes/Notas by Juan Gelman, Portal by Tracy Fuad, Terror Counter by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, Unceded Land by Issam Zineh, and Selected Poems by Pat Parker.

Enjoy Edna Martinez's ( ) tunes throughout the night and grab a bite to eat from Chef Yogi’s ) pop up kitchen, serving delicious Sri Lankan cuisine. To help the chef prepare and minimise food waste, please purchase your tickets as soon as possible. All meals will range from £10-£15 with smaller snack options also available.

11/06/2026

Happy Publication day to Unceded Land by Issam Zineh (.zineh), Order in the link in our bio!

Unceded Land traces the lines of intimacy, loss, and colonial legacies. Zineh unearths psychological depths and interrogates geographical territories, bridging the gap between the mind and the world, the personal and the political, the poem and the reader. Here is the poetry of unknotted affect, of landscapes as primordial as they are crushed by history, of perception rooted in diasporic experience.

Issam Zineh is a Palestinian-American poet, editor, and public health worker. He is author of Unceded Land (Trio House Press, 2022; the87press, 2026), finalist for the Trio Award, Medal Provocateur, Housatonic Book Award, and Balcones Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook The Moment of Greatest Alienation (Ethel Press, 2021). His work appears in AGNI, The Yale Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Split This Rock, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.

10/06/2026

Join us at the next Mushaira on June 13th as we have Fargo Nissim Tbakhi () performing.

Doors open at 7:30, link in bio!

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist and the author of TERROR COUNTER (Deep Vellum, 2025; the87press 2026) and ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. (Deep Vellum, 2027).

With readings by also by Kurdish American poet Tracy Fuad, and Jay Bernard () reading from Pat Parker’s Selected Poems as well as selections from their own works.

Enjoy tunes by Edna Martinez () and grab a bite to eat from Chef Yogi’s ) pop up kitchen, serving delicious Sri Lankan cuisine. To help the chef prepare and minimise food waste, please purchase your tickets as soon as possible. All meals will range from £10-£15 with smaller snack options also available.

09/06/2026

We're pleased to announce we have Tracy Fuad joining us at the next Mushaira on June 13th

Doors open at 7:30, link in bio!

Tracy Fuad is a poet and writer based in Berlin. Her second collection of poetry, PORTAL (University of Chicago Press, 2024; the87press, 2026), won the Phoenix Emerging Poets’ Prize. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Fuad’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Poetry Daily, and Poem-a-Day and have been translated into Kurdish, Turkish, German, and Spanish. She lives in Berlin, where she teaches poetry and directs the Berlin Writers’ Workshop. She is currently at work on a novel.

With readings also by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi ( ), Kurdish American poet Tracy Fuad, and Jay Bernard (@ ) reading from Pat Parker’s Selected Poems as well as selections from their own works.

Enjoy tunes coming from Edna Martinez ( ) and, grab a bite to eat from Chef Yogi’s ( ) pop up kitchen, serving delicious Sri Lankan cuisine. To help the chef prepare and minimise food waste, please purchase your tickets as soon as possible. All meals will range from £10-£15 with smaller snack options also available.

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