I've got news! GREEKLING has made the (dreamy) shortlist for the 2024 The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, given annually by the The Anglo-Hellenic League to a book about Greece/Hellenism 🏆📚🦉 Teenage me, on the verge of moving to England in 1999, would never believe this... I'm thrilled & truly honoured 🙏

Congratulations to Kostya Tsolakis who has been shortlisted for the The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award with his astounding debut poetry collection. What a joy to select and review Greekling (@NineArchesPress) for the PoetryBookSoc last Winter.
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Friends – #GREEKLING is now all sold out Nine Arches Press & has gone into a second printing! Woop! ✌️📚🥳 Thank you to everyone who's bought a copy so far 🙏❣️❣️ If you'd like one, head to your favourite bookshop or order online via my brilliant publisher: ninearchespress.com/publications/p…

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here’s the full list of where Pity will be heading for launches in February - details in the thread and handy links here :

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Hope to see you there!

'Have you any idea what it's like to blow up after two millennia of holding it together?'
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You can read 'Analystosis', a poem in the voice of the Parthenon, in my debut collection GREEKLING. For a copy, head to a bookshop or order via Nine Arches Press: ninearchespress.com/publications/p…

GREEKLING in Athens! I can't wait to share these poems with friends in Greece 🖤🧡🏺🏛️📖 You can order a copy through my publisher Nine Arches Press –
ninearchespress.com/publications/p… – through PoetryBookSoc, & you can find GREEKLING in a plethora of bookshops, including Gay's The Word 🌈📚

I'm still buzzing from last night's GREEKLING party at the Hellenic Centre 🌼🌼🌼🇬🇷 was great to read some poems live for the first time & do a Q&A with alice hiller – thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to everyone who came 🧡🧡🧡 (& you know I can't resist a #bogselfie 🤳🏼)

GREEKLING has been out for a week! 🖤🧡 Thank you to all who joined last night's online launch – it was wonderful to read alongside Romalyn & Olga 🪄📚 & thank you to everyone who's already supported my book 🙏🏼❣️ You can order a copy from Nine Arches Press: ninearchespress.com/publications/p…

It’s out! My debut poetry collection, GREEKLING, a PBS Recommendation, published by Nine Arches Press on the feast of St Dimitri 🌼🌼🌼 While I still grieve the loss of my father this month, it comforts me to have created something that owes so much to Dad’s love for poetry 🖤🧡📖

November 2024 brings Self-Portrait With Family by Amaan Hyder. Weaving familial & queer traditions and archives, stretching across generational perspectives, an autobiographical collection about coming out to family and coming out into a gay community defined by whiteness. /11

And also in October 2024, Caleb Parkin publishes a second collection of poems. Mingle exposes the copious toxicities in landscapes and bodies, through poems bubbling with the intoxications of hyper-wealth and climate nationalism. /10

October 2024 sees publication of The Tattoo Collector - the debut poems by tim tim cheng 🐸 (she/they). Ranging between Hong Kong, Scotland, and London, this powerful collection explores the intertwined relationship between the body, ecology and class. /9

March 2024 brings Khairani Barokka's third book - amuk - which sheds light on the devastating and ongoing effects of a single word's mistranslation, and emphasises what exists in opposition to such hostile histories and presents: hope, resistance, and joy. /3

We are over the moon to share this wonderful news, and so looking forward to these joyful, radical, vital books of poetry we're going to be publishing in 2024. Congratulations to all the authors... /1

This Thursday 26th is publication day for GREEKLING. Join Kostya Tsolakis Gay's The Word for a launch night, the first of some wonderful events, in-person and online, to mark the book's arrival.
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One more event added to the list! 🚂📖 On Mon, 20 November, I'll be heading to Coventry, home to my uni, University of Warwick, for a reading with my Nine Arches Press stablemate Olga Dermott- Bond at The Belgrade Theatre, part of the WordPlay series. For tickets visit eventbrite.co.uk/e/wordplay-poe…

On Wed, 1 November, fellow Nine Arches Press poet Olga Dermott-Bond (@olgadermott), whose collection FRIEZE came out last week, & I will be doing a joint online launch, supported by our poetry sister - & my fellow harana poetry editor - 🦋Romalyn Ante FRSL🗡 📚🌸
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On Thur, 26 October - publication day of GREEKLING & feast of St Dimitri 🌼 - I'll launch my collection at a dream venue: Gay's The Word 🌈📚 I'll be joined by fellow Med poet & translator extraordinaire Piero Toto & the brilliant Chris Lloyd (@clloyd9) outsavvy.com/event/16508/bo…

Good morning friends - καλή βδομάδα ❣️ There's two GREEKLING events coming up - one live 🎤 the other online 💻 - with a few more being planned for London, Manchester & Athens. Booking details for the two coming up can be found in the following posts 👇

Καλό μήνα! It’s 1 October, which means that my debut poetry collection, GREEKLING, a PoetryBookSoc Winter 2023 Recommendation, is coming out this month! 🧡🤍📖🏛️ You can pre-order GREEKLING through my fabulous publisher, Nine Arches Press here: ninearchespress.com/publications/p… ✉️📬🙌❣️