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Thank you so much to everyone who came to our Winter Mushaira! We had a lovely time celebrating the publication of Tetra...
08/12/2025

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our Winter Mushaira! We had a lovely time celebrating the publication of Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa (published in the US by Deep Vellum) and Indian Winter by Kazim Ali, listening to performances including our guest readers as well: Samuel Fisher, Sunny Singh, and Clare Pollard. And of course DJ Will René' tunes and Chef Yogi’s delicious Sri Lankan cuisine.

If you're intersted in any of our titles or any future events please check out the link in our bio!

Happy Publication Day to Something about Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha now available in the UK and Ireland 📖Order at th...
04/12/2025

Happy Publication Day to Something about Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha now available in the UK and Ireland 📖

Order at the link in bio!

Something About Living is the third collection from acclaimed poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and a mutli-award winner. It explores Palestinian life through the lens of language, revealing a legacy of obfuscation and erasure. What happens when language only permits ongoing disasters to be packaged neatly for consumption and subsequent disposal?

Searing with insights from the perspective of a Palestinian in diaspora, Something About Living refuses to cede ground to nihilism and apathy, taking the reader through the difficult landscape of hope and futurity in the midst of an interminable, uncertain, and often devastating present.

"This superb volume sings of those determined to fight for a fairer future." —Publishers Weekly

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist and translator. She is author of three books of poetry: Something About Living (University of Akron Press, 2024; the87press, 2025), winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize; Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press), finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award and honourable mention for the 2024 Arab American Book Award; and Water & Salt (Red Hen), winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award and honourable mention of the 2018 Arab American Book Award. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Arab in Newsland, winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Prize, and Letters from the Interior (Diode, 2019), finalist for the 2020 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. For more about her work, visit www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com.

⛄Winter Sale❄️ 25% off selected titles for a limited time! Check out our bookshop for the full catalogue of books: https...
03/12/2025

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

📚Act Announcement📚Clare Pollard is joining us this winter for our Mushaira on the 6th of December at the iconic Cafe OTO...
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!

Clare Pollard’s sixth collection of poetry with Bloodaxe is Lives of the Female Poets. Her poem ‘Pollen’ was been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Individual Poem. Clare has also recently written the children’s novel The Untameables and the adult novel The Modern Fairies, which won the Tadeusz Bradecki Prize. She is the Artistic Director of Wi******er Poetry Festival.

This edition celebrates the publication of two novels—Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa (published in the US by Deep Vellum) and Indian Winter by Kazim Ali. Featuring readings from Sophia Terazawa, Kazim Ali (virtual), Samuel Fisher, Sunny Singh, Anthony Anaxagorou, and Clare Pollard.

Enjoy DJ Will René' tunes while having a bite of Chef Yogi’s delicious vegan and vegetarian Sri Lankan cuisine.

02/12/2025

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

🎁SURPRISE Act Announcement🎁Our surprise guest Anthony Anaxagorou is joining us this SATURDAY for Mushaira at the iconic ...
01/12/2025

🎁SURPRISE Act Announcement🎁

Our surprise guest Anthony Anaxagorou is joining us this SATURDAY for Mushaira at the iconic Cafe OTO!

Anthony Anaxagorou FRSL is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist and publisher. His third collection, Heritage Aesthetics published with Granta Poetry in 2022, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award. It was listed as one of New Statesman’s top books of 2022.

This edition celebrates the publication of two novels—Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa (published in the US by Deep Vellum) and Indian Winter by Kazim Ali. Featuring readings from Sophia Terazawa, Kazim Ali (virtual), Samuel Fisher, Sunny Singh, and Clare Pollard.

Enjoy DJ Will René' tunes while having a bite of Chef Yogi’s delicious vegan and vegetarian Sri Lankan cuisine.

Make sure to put your orders through ASAP before we go on break on December 10th! 📚 Discover excellent experimental lite...
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 ✨Makes a perfect present 🎁

Order online at our bookshop or anywhere else that sells books: the87press.co.uk/shop

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

Samuel Fisher is a writer, bookseller and publisher. His debut novel, The Chameleon (Salt, 2018) was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, shortlisted for the Collyer Bristow Prize and won a Betty Trask in 2019. His second novel Wivenhoe was published by Corsair in 2022. The follow up, Migraine, was published in 2025. He co-owns Burley Fisher Books in Hackney and is a director of Peninsula Press.

This edition celebrates the publication of two novels—Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa (published in the US by Deep Vellum) and Indian Winter by Kazim Ali. Featuring readings from Sophia Terazawa, Kazim Ali (virtual), Samuel Fisher, Sunny Singh, and Clare Pollard.

Enjoy DJ Will René' tunes while having a bite of Chef Yogi’s delicious vegan and vegetarian Sri Lankan cuisine.

🎉Act Announcement🎉We have Kazim Ali joining us virtually with a reading of the newly published Indian Winter at our comi...
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.

Kazim Ali is the author of twenty-four books of poetry, essay, fiction, and cross-genre work. He has also edited an anthology of Muslim writers and books of critical writing on poets Agha Shahid Ali, Jean Valentine, and Shreela Ray, as well as translated books by Marguerite Duras, Ananda Devi, and Sohrab Sepehri. After teaching positions at various colleges including Oberlin, Davidson, and St. Mary's College of California, he was appointed Professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Arts at the University of California, San Diego, where he currently chairs the Department of Literature.

This edition celebrates the publication of two novels—Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa (published in the US by Deep Vellum) and Indian Winter by Kazim Ali. Featuring readings from Sophia Terazawa, Kazim Ali (virtual), Samuel Fisher, Sunny Singh, and Clare Pollard.

Enjoy DJ Will René' tunes while having a bite of Chef Yogi’s delicious vegan and vegetarian Sri Lankan cuisine.

27/11/2025

A flip through 📖 Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa

24/11/2025

A glimpse of what one of our Mushairas look like ✨️ join us for the next on on the 6th of December 🎟 Ticket link in bio

Looking at the poetry of Sarah Ghazal Ali's brilliant debut collection Theophanies, Troubled Divinities is a workshop wi...
21/11/2025

Looking at the poetry of Sarah Ghazal Ali's brilliant debut collection Theophanies, Troubled Divinities is a workshop with Victoria Adukwei Bulley that explores the ways that the female or feminine body is positioned in contexts of the divine, religious, and the spiritual📖

Join us on the 30th of November! Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees. Link in bio.

Participants will read and discuss poems from the collection, gathering inspiration to experiment with writing that holds expansive visions of embodiment, agency, and selfhood.

Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer, and artist whose work has appeared widely in publications including the London Review of Books, LitHub, and The Atlantic. She is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her critically acclaimed debut poetry book, QUIET, won the Folio Prize for Poetry, the John Pollard International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. QUIET is published by Faber in the UK and in North America by Alfred A. Knopf.

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