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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.

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

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⛄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

📚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

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 Cafe OTO!

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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

📚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

🎉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.

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#londonpoetry #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature

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📖

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Happy Publication day to Indian Winter by Kazim Ali!

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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

📖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

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

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

" 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 With a purple and blue background

Troubled Divinities, a poetry workshop with victoria adukwei bully. 30/11/25, 6-8pm GMT, a virtual workshop. Logo of the87press puzzle and arts council england on the bottom right. Image of Victoria in the centre with a purple and blue gradient background

Victoria Adukwei Bulley brings another workshop on the 30th of November 📖 Join us for Troubled Divinities, a poetry workshop with Victoria Adukwei Bulley

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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

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

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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

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.

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

Text reading: 回 / Return publishing in February "...Luan’s poems, which alloy Chinese and English into feats of formal ingenuity and beauty, translate the unspeakable. Read it once, then read it again slowly to perceive the spectrum of emotions Luan unseams with dexterity..." – Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings and pulitzer finalist 2021 With the87press puzzle logo on the bottom left.

✨ 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

A look inside The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed publishing in just a few days!

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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 🗓

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.

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
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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

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

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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

✨ 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