A new poem from Gaza, by Maryam al-Khateeb: THE LONE SURVIVOR.

Like so many young people, Mariam is trying to use the internet to save her family and pay their way out of Gaza.

Please help however you can, including RTs to spread it round. gofundme.com/f/help-mariam-…

here's the gorgeous Giuseppe Penone-inspired cover of my UK pamphlet 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑘, 𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑒, 𝑆𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 coming in May from the amazing Out-Spoken Press - can't wait to share what i've been working on 🌲🪵

so jazzed for this Jay Gao 🌳

👀Cover reveal 👀

BARK, ARCHIVE, SPLINTER
by Jay Gao

'How might the figuration of trees deform language?'

Forthcoming 23 May - Pre-orders up soon

Novelist Sinan Antoon arrested along with other NYU faculty & students:

College students are getting arrested for protesting genocide and meanwhile nearly 300 bodies are discovered in a mass grave at a hospital in Gaza amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/22…

the87press subscription scheme is blossoming! If 700 folks take up a £50 subscription we will be super close to our target. Money will be used to fund book production and live events and online journal! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the87press-2…

THURSDAY

Don’t miss April’s Out-Spoken — feat. Azad Ashim Sharma whose brilliant new collection BOILED OWLS is out now, alongside Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Glyn Maxwell, music from Benjamin Cook & Isaac Stuart

Tickets: southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/liter…

AA caught smiling :)

LONDON 6-12 May — RE-ENCHANT festival The Cockpit 👀

Join us for our takeover on Sun 12 May
> 5pm Image Making Meaning workshop w Anthony Anaxagorou
> 7pm Working class poetics panel discussion & performances w lisa minerva luxx • من النهر إلى البحر Fran Lock & Rachael Allen

thecockpit.org.uk/re-enchant

[...] keeps our attention focused on the horror and devastation of Israel’s genocide.

When its author Fady Joudah won the $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize this week, judges praised his courage to speak in the face of the unspeakable.

Maura Finkelstein's review:

scottishleftreview.scot/anti-colonial-…

Books of delights! Sidekick Books Pamenar Press Carcanet Press Hercules Editions Broken Sleep Books Magma Poetry Butcher's Dog Publishing fourteenpoems Out-Spoken & Green Bottle Press. Excited to complete my Birdbook set as I'm in BB3. Also re-joined PoetryBookSoc Free Verse The Poetry Society

Deadline tonight 👀👀

a bed lined with treasure from the #freeversefair with HLR

📚📚📚 Great (and v busy!) day at The Poetry Society Free Verse book fair yesterday — thanks so much to everyone who came by 📚📚📚

What. A. Haul! Thanks for well and truly enabling my book buying, The Poetry Society. Free Verse was such fun today. Big thanks to Verve Poetry Press Butcher's Dog Publishing Two Rivers Press Out-Spoken Press AgainstTheGrainPress and Sidekick Books for the ace reading material. Excited to get stuck in!

Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah has won the $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize. ‹ Literary Hub
🔥🔥🔥 lithub.com/palestinian-am…

& some more amazing publshers of course; lovely to spot copies of #StateofPlay (Out-Spoken Press) & #WhereElse (@VervePoetryPres) especially 💙

Great haul of poetry today from The Poetry Society Free Verse mag & book fair with fellow fourteenpoems fam Chris Lloyd Dr Luís Costa 🐈‍⬛ Ellora Sutton (she/her) + Out-Spoken Press pamphlets from Fady Joudah Helen Quah & Maria-Sophia Christodoulou & more! Shame I didn’t take up the karate upstairs 🥋

Announcement: 'Fady Joudah, a Palestinian American poet... has received a $100,000 award from Poets & Writers.'
(San Francisco Chronicle)
#pdnews
sfchronicle.com/entertainment/…