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[…] by Fady Joudah
Boiled Owls, Azad Ashim Sharma
Bark, Archive, Splinter, Jay Gao
Down, @chickenbex
Tongueless, Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit
I Sugar the Bones, Juana Adcock.
NEW bundle offer of all six 2024 titles for just £45 available now:
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[…] by Fady Joudah
Boiled Owls, Azad Ashim Sharma
Bark, Archive, Splinter, Jay Gao
Down, @chickenbex
Tongueless, Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit
I Sugar the Bones, Juana Adcock.
NEW bundle offer of all six 2024 titles for just £45 available now:
outspokenldn.com/shop/2024bundle
GOOD MORNING HELLO to so many new faces 🙏
We’re Out-Spoken Press, we publish poetry & critical writing — you can see more about our recent titles below and we have exciting news on Editor @aanaxagorou.bsky.social’s 2025-26 list coming this week 👀
We’re Out-Spoken Press, we publish poetry & critical writing — you can see more about our recent titles below and we have exciting news on Editor @aanaxagorou.bsky.social’s 2025-26 list coming this week 👀
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🇯🇲🙌🏾 Thank you to all who joined us online last night to raise funds for Jamaica, beautiful gathering of poetry and music and community and connection, loved it, love you, @outspokenpress.bsky.social here’s to more of this good stuff soon! BIGlove Xx
What are you up to this evening? If you are staying home then sign up for this online gig all for a great cause, and the line up organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social is epic: POETS READ FOR HURRICANE RELIEF FUNDRAISER. Please share and donate if you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
Poets Read For Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser
An online evening of poetry, raising funds for Food for the Poor and Support Jamaica to support those affected by Hurricane Melissa.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🇯🇲🙌🏾 Thank you to all who joined us online last night to raise funds for Jamaica, beautiful gathering of poetry and music and community and connection, loved it, love you, @outspokenpress.bsky.social here’s to more of this good stuff soon! BIGlove Xx
You can still DONATE to help those in Jamaica affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastation & WATCH the recording of last night
With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
You can still DONATE to help those in Jamaica affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastation & WATCH the recording of last night
With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
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🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser:
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser:
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
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Delighted to share the cover and publisher blurb for my debut poetry collection – out Feb 12th but available for pre-order from @outspokenpress.bsky.social
www.outspokenldn.com/shop/rabbits
www.outspokenldn.com/shop/rabbits
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Delighted to share the cover and publisher blurb for my debut poetry collection – out Feb 12th but available for pre-order from @outspokenpress.bsky.social
www.outspokenldn.com/shop/rabbits
www.outspokenldn.com/shop/rabbits
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excuse the typo, here's that link again, thanks for your solidarity and help xx www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
Poets Read For Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser
An online evening of poetry, raising funds for Food for the Poor and Support Jamaica to support those affected by Hurricane Melissa.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
excuse the typo, here's that link again, thanks for your solidarity and help xx www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
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🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
With the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, we’re hosting an online event to raise funds to help those affected
Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
With the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, we’re hosting an online event to raise funds to help those affected
Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
We’re delighted to share with you the cover for LAMPING WILD RABBITS, the debut collection by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social forthcoming 12 February 2026.
PRE-ORDERS are up now / outspokenldn.com/rabbits
PRE-ORDERS are up now / outspokenldn.com/rabbits
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We’re delighted to share with you the cover for LAMPING WILD RABBITS, the debut collection by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social forthcoming 12 February 2026.
PRE-ORDERS are up now / outspokenldn.com/rabbits
PRE-ORDERS are up now / outspokenldn.com/rabbits
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The Scotsman's Poem of the Week
'Scene 4. Lisa Simpson Interrogates the Untranslatability of the Joke' by Juana Adcock.
'Scene 4. Lisa Simpson Interrogates the Untranslatability of the Joke' by Juana Adcock.
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The Scotsman's Poem of the Week
'Scene 4. Lisa Simpson Interrogates the Untranslatability of the Joke' by Juana Adcock.
'Scene 4. Lisa Simpson Interrogates the Untranslatability of the Joke' by Juana Adcock.
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On Sunday, the Forward Prize winners will be revealed!
In the run-up to the announcement, we’re exploring some of the books nominated in the Best Collection category: first up, Juana Adcock on how she wrote I SUGAR THE BONES: lrb.me/098c4c
@forwardprizes.bsky.social @outspokenpress.bsky.social
In the run-up to the announcement, we’re exploring some of the books nominated in the Best Collection category: first up, Juana Adcock on how she wrote I SUGAR THE BONES: lrb.me/098c4c
@forwardprizes.bsky.social @outspokenpress.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
On Sunday, the Forward Prize winners will be revealed!
In the run-up to the announcement, we’re exploring some of the books nominated in the Best Collection category: first up, Juana Adcock on how she wrote I SUGAR THE BONES: lrb.me/098c4c
@forwardprizes.bsky.social @outspokenpress.bsky.social
In the run-up to the announcement, we’re exploring some of the books nominated in the Best Collection category: first up, Juana Adcock on how she wrote I SUGAR THE BONES: lrb.me/098c4c
@forwardprizes.bsky.social @outspokenpress.bsky.social
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Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-four-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-raids-one
Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">Israeli forces carried out multiple raids across the occupied West Bank on Friday dawn, arresting four Palestinian youths in separate incidents in Nablus and Tulkarm.</p>
<p>In Nablus, soldiers infiltrated al-Makhfiyya neighbourhood, followed by the entry of military vehicles. They raided a home and fired live bullets inside, injuring Ehab Abu Rayala in the leg before arresting him. A second young man was also detained during the operation, according to the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa).</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarm, Israeli forces arrested Ahmad Saif Fuqaha and Fares Ayman Najjar after storming their homes.</p>
<p>These arrests come amid ongoing Israeli military operations and heightened tensions across the occupied West Bank.</p>
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October 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-four-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-raids-one
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The genocide is not over. Ceasefire is not liberation. Keep giving. chuffed.org/project/help...
“Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”
“Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”
October 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
The genocide is not over. Ceasefire is not liberation. Keep giving. chuffed.org/project/help...
“Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”
“Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”
🌟 Huge congratulations to Fady Joudah, recipient of the 2025 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded by the Academy of American Poets, for the most outstanding poetry published in the United States in the previous year for [...]
October 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
🌟 Huge congratulations to Fady Joudah, recipient of the 2025 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded by the Academy of American Poets, for the most outstanding poetry published in the United States in the previous year for [...]
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Submissions are still open for the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! Get your manuscript in by Wednesday October 15th!
👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀
$2000
US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social
UK publication with Out-Spoken Press
Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com
$2000
US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social
UK publication with Out-Spoken Press
Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Submissions are still open for the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! Get your manuscript in by Wednesday October 15th!
‘An alarmingly accomplished debut. A long way now from traditional elegy […] off-kilter and riveting: one dare not look away.’ —Fiona Benson
✨ It's publication week for Madeleine Kruhly's To my father, now dead in room 318 ✨
Out on Thurs > outspokenldn.com/shop/room318
✨ It's publication week for Madeleine Kruhly's To my father, now dead in room 318 ✨
Out on Thurs > outspokenldn.com/shop/room318
October 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
‘An alarmingly accomplished debut. A long way now from traditional elegy […] off-kilter and riveting: one dare not look away.’ —Fiona Benson
✨ It's publication week for Madeleine Kruhly's To my father, now dead in room 318 ✨
Out on Thurs > outspokenldn.com/shop/room318
✨ It's publication week for Madeleine Kruhly's To my father, now dead in room 318 ✨
Out on Thurs > outspokenldn.com/shop/room318
👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀
$2000
US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social
UK publication with Out-Spoken Press
Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com
$2000
US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social
UK publication with Out-Spoken Press
Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀
$2000
US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social
UK publication with Out-Spoken Press
Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com
$2000
US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social
UK publication with Out-Spoken Press
Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com
Big news. Big. Huge. 🌝
Delighted that Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero is shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025
🙏 to the judging panel & congratulations to all shortlisted poets. We hope this recognition can bring her work to more UK readers 🙏
Delighted that Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero is shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025
🙏 to the judging panel & congratulations to all shortlisted poets. We hope this recognition can bring her work to more UK readers 🙏
October 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Big news. Big. Huge. 🌝
Delighted that Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero is shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025
🙏 to the judging panel & congratulations to all shortlisted poets. We hope this recognition can bring her work to more UK readers 🙏
Delighted that Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero is shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025
🙏 to the judging panel & congratulations to all shortlisted poets. We hope this recognition can bring her work to more UK readers 🙏
HUGE congratulations to Natalie Shapero on the shortlisting of STAY DEAD for this year’s @tseliotprize.bsky.social !!!
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We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."
Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."
Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
October 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
HUGE congratulations to Natalie Shapero on the shortlisting of STAY DEAD for this year’s @tseliotprize.bsky.social !!!
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We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."
Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."
Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
October 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."
Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."
Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
Review of our September title, STAY DEAD by Natalie Shapero, in LARB
“Shapero’s mordant humor and intellectual agility throw a challenge to the reader: In contemporary life, are we dead or alive? Could we be both, or in between?”
>> lareviewofbooks.org/article/coug...
“Shapero’s mordant humor and intellectual agility throw a challenge to the reader: In contemporary life, are we dead or alive? Could we be both, or in between?”
>> lareviewofbooks.org/article/coug...
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Review of our September title, STAY DEAD by Natalie Shapero, in LARB
“Shapero’s mordant humor and intellectual agility throw a challenge to the reader: In contemporary life, are we dead or alive? Could we be both, or in between?”
>> lareviewofbooks.org/article/coug...
“Shapero’s mordant humor and intellectual agility throw a challenge to the reader: In contemporary life, are we dead or alive? Could we be both, or in between?”
>> lareviewofbooks.org/article/coug...
Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry MS?
Check out this opportunity open to writers in English located anywhere - win $2000, US & UK publication
Deadline: 15 Oct
Send your MS, share widely >> noemipress.submittable.com
Check out this opportunity open to writers in English located anywhere - win $2000, US & UK publication
Deadline: 15 Oct
Send your MS, share widely >> noemipress.submittable.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry MS?
Check out this opportunity open to writers in English located anywhere - win $2000, US & UK publication
Deadline: 15 Oct
Send your MS, share widely >> noemipress.submittable.com
Check out this opportunity open to writers in English located anywhere - win $2000, US & UK publication
Deadline: 15 Oct
Send your MS, share widely >> noemipress.submittable.com
Last call for our next course running Mondays 7-9pm, 6 Oct - 1 Dec
Tutors: Ella Frears, Jack Underwood, Anthony Anaxagorou
Starting on Monday - don’t miss out!
outspokenldn.com/academy-plus
Tutors: Ella Frears, Jack Underwood, Anthony Anaxagorou
Starting on Monday - don’t miss out!
outspokenldn.com/academy-plus
October 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Last call for our next course running Mondays 7-9pm, 6 Oct - 1 Dec
Tutors: Ella Frears, Jack Underwood, Anthony Anaxagorou
Starting on Monday - don’t miss out!
outspokenldn.com/academy-plus
Tutors: Ella Frears, Jack Underwood, Anthony Anaxagorou
Starting on Monday - don’t miss out!
outspokenldn.com/academy-plus
DEADLINE EXTENDED
If you’re a poet of Arab heritage, writing in English anywhere in the world, with a poetry manuscript - you now have until 15 October to enter the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize!
> $2000
> US publication with Noemi Press
> UK publication with Out-Spoken Press
noemipress.submittable.com
If you’re a poet of Arab heritage, writing in English anywhere in the world, with a poetry manuscript - you now have until 15 October to enter the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize!
> $2000
> US publication with Noemi Press
> UK publication with Out-Spoken Press
noemipress.submittable.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
DEADLINE EXTENDED
If you’re a poet of Arab heritage, writing in English anywhere in the world, with a poetry manuscript - you now have until 15 October to enter the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize!
> $2000
> US publication with Noemi Press
> UK publication with Out-Spoken Press
noemipress.submittable.com
If you’re a poet of Arab heritage, writing in English anywhere in the world, with a poetry manuscript - you now have until 15 October to enter the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize!
> $2000
> US publication with Noemi Press
> UK publication with Out-Spoken Press
noemipress.submittable.com
Haia Mohammed has arrived safely to take up her scholarship place at Goldsmiths University.
A massive thank you to everyone who emailed their MP's regarding waiving the biometrics for the Gaza 40. They are all survivors of genocide.
Love to the extraordinary heart, strength and resilience of Haia.
A massive thank you to everyone who emailed their MP's regarding waiving the biometrics for the Gaza 40. They are all survivors of genocide.
Love to the extraordinary heart, strength and resilience of Haia.
September 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Haia Mohammed has arrived safely to take up her scholarship place at Goldsmiths University.
A massive thank you to everyone who emailed their MP's regarding waiving the biometrics for the Gaza 40. They are all survivors of genocide.
Love to the extraordinary heart, strength and resilience of Haia.
A massive thank you to everyone who emailed their MP's regarding waiving the biometrics for the Gaza 40. They are all survivors of genocide.
Love to the extraordinary heart, strength and resilience of Haia.
💐 Today we are TEN 💐
With huge gratitude to every poet we have published and worked with, the whole Out-Spoken team, and every one of you who’ve read or recommended an Out-Spoken Press title or joined us for one of our workshops or events. THANK YOU 🙏
With huge gratitude to every poet we have published and worked with, the whole Out-Spoken team, and every one of you who’ve read or recommended an Out-Spoken Press title or joined us for one of our workshops or events. THANK YOU 🙏
September 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
💐 Today we are TEN 💐
With huge gratitude to every poet we have published and worked with, the whole Out-Spoken team, and every one of you who’ve read or recommended an Out-Spoken Press title or joined us for one of our workshops or events. THANK YOU 🙏
With huge gratitude to every poet we have published and worked with, the whole Out-Spoken team, and every one of you who’ve read or recommended an Out-Spoken Press title or joined us for one of our workshops or events. THANK YOU 🙏