Azad Ashim Sharma

June 14th is the Date, Cafe Oto is the venue: www.cafeoto.co.uk/.../the87pre... Please share widely and buy your ticket early to avoid disappointment.

Jhalak Prize 2025 Poetry Shortlist Gboyega Odubanjo’s, Adam Azad Ashim Sharma, Boiled Owls Mimi Khalvati, Collected pOems Amaan Hydar, Self-Portrait with Family Rushika Wick, Horse Karen McCarthy Woolf, Top Doll

💫 We’re delighted that Boiled Owls by @azad-ashim.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize for Poetry 💫

❤️‍🔥 to see Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam there, & alongside titles by @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social @rushikawick.bsky.social

🙏 to the judging panel & congrats to all the shortlisted poets

Last Hummingbirds we had a very interesting discussion with Waithera Sebatindira, azad-ashim.bsky.social and Dr. Abeera Khan.

Don't miss out on Hummingbirds 5 at buff.ly/s7lz9vE%F0%9... With kazimali.bsky.social and alycia.bsky.social

Tickets are free with registration🎟️ buff.ly/edkbp7B

Congratulations to Saba Kermati for winning the 2025 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize ⭐

Check out the winning collection Self-Mythology at our online shop 📚 buff.ly/GDdRwnA

A look into the new collection of poetry gestalt by the talented Karenjit Sandhu @k_ren_sandhu

Now available for pre-order, publishing on 10th April ✨

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We have Kazim Ali (kazimali.bsky.social), author of The Voice of Sheila Chandra, at Hummingbirds 5.0 at Housmans Bookshop (housmansbookshop.bsky.social) 📚

Join us for a enlightening eve with Kazim and Alycia Pirmohamed reading from their recent works, following a discussion with Azad Ashim Sharma

Excerpt from gestalt, IV, "vat," page 37.

gestalt by Karenjit Sandhu is out on April 10th 2025!

Pre-order your copy: www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/gestalt

su(VERSE)ive: In Conversation with Sarah Ghazal Ali sub(VERSE)ive is an exclusive limited interview series from Wasafiri. Hosted by Prerana Kumar, these conversations showcase established and emerging contempo...

We’re thrilled to share the second episode of sub(VERSE)ive with guest poet Sarah Ghazal Ali! @sarahali.bsky.social

Watch the full conversation on Sarah’s debut collection THEOPHANIES (@the87press.bsky.social), including a reading:

✨ Restock day✨ This time it's @omarsakr.bsky.social Son of Sin 📚

Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet’s eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.

An excerpt from Recupera by Emma Gomis.
"Memory is a Ghost," page 1.

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We're thrilled to announce that we’ve signed Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social and will bring her debut poetry collection, Dear Diaspora, to the UK and Ireland in September!

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

I had the great pleasure of having Rhoni read with me several times on my Boiled Owls US tour and these poems, now available at AWP in book form, moved me nearly to tears. Come and see this wonderful poet in action!

the87press & Housmans Bookshop present: Hummingbirds 5.0, a literary salon Featuring Kazim Ali and Alycia Pirmohamed, in conversation with Azad Ashim Sharma

COME TO THIS LONDON www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the87press...

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Delighted that Rushika Wick's Horse is on the Jhalak Prize longlist, alongside other brilliant poets including @azad-ashim.bsky.social, @mailbykite.bsky.social, and Nisha Ramayya.

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Thank you!!!!

The Poetry Prize | Jhalak Prize Home

www.jhalakprize.com/poetry-prize extremely grateful to have Boiled Owls longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2025 and mentioned amongst such illustrious company, in particular, alongside Nisha Ramayya whose work and example has always been a north-star for my own attempts at this life in letters.

Triumph of the Lost Cause | Los Angeles Review of Books Jimin Seo examines Azad Ashim Sharma’s collection “Boiled Owls.”

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Two upcoming events, LA and Vancouver - hope to see you there!

anyone I know on here going to be at AWP? I'm reading at N Figueroa Bookshop with a Nightboat crew on the 03/28

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... There was a payment issue for people buying tickets that has now been resolved! Please buy them, please come! 3 new books from @the87press.bsky.social

hey friends - come to Oto this Saturday and witness the release of 3 new books from the87press - Harmony is coming through from LA, Emma from Paris, Karenjit from outside London. Show these brilliant writers a good time!!!

[Digital Poetics 4.26] Live Air (For Peter Gizzi) by Azad Ashim Sharma — the87press A poem written in tribute to Peter Gizzi: ‘I write into your poetry like a seeker watching for the changing nodes of tradition, I’ll be / buried on that horizon, its open sky.’

‘I write into your poetry like a seeker watching for the changing nodes of tradition, I’ll be / buried on that horizon, its open sky.’

Following Peter Gizzi's T.S. Eliot Prize win for Fierce Elegy, @azad-ashim.bsky.social has penned a tribute poem. Read here:

[Digital Poetics 4.26] Live Air (For Peter Gizzi) by Azad Ashim Sharma — the87press A poem written in tribute to Peter Gizzi: ‘I write into your poetry like a seeker watching for the changing nodes of tradition, I’ll be / buried on that horizon, its open sky.’

www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope... new one

Morning #booksky family - the second 2025 live event from @the87press.bsky.social is on 22nd Feb at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social featuring Emma Gomis, Karenjit Sandhu, and Harmony Holiday!! Please buy tickets here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... It's a triple book launch!

Dr. Abeera Khan will be chairing the conversation at Hummingbirds 4.0 on February 7th at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social 7 - 9pm! @azad-ashim.bsky.social and Waithera Sebatindira will read, followed by a conversation.
Tickets are free: https://buff.ly/40db4Or

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Something awesome this way comes!

A poetry festival full of ✨🌟💫
Amy Evans Bauer, Amy Cutler, Azad Ashim Sharma, James Davies, Serena Braida, Camilla Nelson, Briony Hughes, Stephen Mooney, Lisa Samuels,
Antony John, Tim Atkins, E.P. Jenkins, Michał Kamil Piotrowski

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Participating poets:
Amy Evans Bauer, Amy Cutler, Azad Ashim Sharma, James Davies, Serena Braida, Camilla Nelson, Briony Hughes, Stephen Mooney, Lisa Samuels,
Antony John, Tim Atkins, E.P. Jenkins

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I’m so happy to be running the Innovative Poetry Festival Beyond Text for the third time, and god, what a lineup of stars we have! 🔥💥💫

Get your tickets on Indiegogo before they are gone! And only there you will get access to the recordings of the readings from 2022 and 2003! Plus many other perks❣️

www.indiegogo.com/.../beyond-t.... Taking part in an innovative poetry festival in early March - this festival didn't receive funding for this year's programming so has launched a campaign to encourage registrations for the now online-only programme. Please sign up and share widely! #poetry #booksky