the87press
@the87press.bsky.social
South London-based publishing collective focused on experimental literatures at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, & neurodiversity. We also run online journal theHythe!
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@the87press.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Hi Bluesky, we're a radical publishing collective and events curator based in South London. We run an online journal called theHythe. Follow us for poetry, fiction, and essays that prioritise radical, anti-colonial, anti-racist, late modernist voices!
#booksky #indiepress #indiebooks
#booksky #indiepress #indiebooks
📚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
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
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
📚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
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.
Book your tickets here: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W
#londonpoetry #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature
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.
Book your tickets here: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W
#londonpoetry #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🎉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.
Book your tickets here: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W
#londonpoetry #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature
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.
Book your tickets here: tr.ee/8eIvxi3L1W
#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📖
Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees tr.ee/E9pu4g3use
Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees tr.ee/E9pu4g3use
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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📖
Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees tr.ee/E9pu4g3use
Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees tr.ee/E9pu4g3use
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
Photos by the talented photographer Neo Gilder.
#ForwardPrizes #PoetryAwards #PoetryLive #poetrycommunity
November 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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
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
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
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
📖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
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
Coming to the UK & Ireland soon! Pre-order at tr.ee/jlt2F1ePEd
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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
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
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
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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
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
Victoria Adukwei Bulley brings another workshop on the 30th of November 📖 Join us for Troubled Divinities, a poetry workshop with Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees tr.ee/E9pu4g3use
Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees tr.ee/E9pu4g3use
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Victoria Adukwei Bulley brings another workshop on the 30th of November 📖 Join us for Troubled Divinities, a poetry workshop with Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees tr.ee/E9pu4g3use
Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees tr.ee/E9pu4g3use
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
6th of December at Café OTO doors open at 7 tinyurl.com/bss22mmy
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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
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
Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees 📚 tinyurl.com/y4c4unhy
Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees 📚 tinyurl.com/y4c4unhy
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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
Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees 📚 tinyurl.com/y4c4unhy
Sign up now for only £32.99 + registration fees 📚 tinyurl.com/y4c4unhy
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
Pre-order online 📚 www.the87press.co.uk/shop
November 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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
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.
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.
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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.
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 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
Originally published by Nightboat Books in the US in 2023.
#smallpresspublishing #BookLover #SupportIndieBookstores #literaturelover #londonpoetry
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
✨ 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
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!
Pre-order your copy tinyurl.com/yn9dz2w4
Pre-order your copy tinyurl.com/yn9dz2w4
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A look inside The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed publishing in just a few days!
Pre-order your copy tinyurl.com/yn9dz2w4
Pre-order your copy tinyurl.com/yn9dz2w4
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 🗓
Our next Mushaira is on the 6th of December so mark your calendars 🗓
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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 🗓
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.
Gabrielle Bates’ electrifying debut questions what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears.
October 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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.
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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October 24th 2025, doors at 7 at Cafe OTO
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October 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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
tinyurl.com/5xret5p9
October 24th 2025, doors at 7 at Cafe OTO
tinyurl.com/5xret5p9
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
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
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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
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
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
October 24th 2025, doors at 7 @cafeotodalston
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
October 24th 2025, doors at 7 @cafeotodalston
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
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
Order your copy of AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PERFORMANCE by Blue Pieta, and Bhanu Kapil uk.bookshop.org/a/15251/9781...
#smallpresspublishing #the87press #booklaunch #indiepress
October 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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
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
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
October 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
✨ 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
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
📖ACT ANNOUNCEMENT📖
We've got a special virtual reading from The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr, illustrated by Safdar Ahmed screened our next MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food.
October 24th 2025, Cafe OTO - doors 7
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
We've got a special virtual reading from The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr, illustrated by Safdar Ahmed screened our next MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food.
October 24th 2025, Cafe OTO - doors 7
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
October 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📖ACT ANNOUNCEMENT📖
We've got a special virtual reading from The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr, illustrated by Safdar Ahmed screened our next MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food.
October 24th 2025, Cafe OTO - doors 7
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
We've got a special virtual reading from The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr, illustrated by Safdar Ahmed screened our next MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food.
October 24th 2025, Cafe OTO - doors 7
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
Cover reveal of Kazim Ali's (@kazimali.bsky.social) Indian Winter! Coming out in November this year.
Pre-order now! 📖https://tr.ee/RIo1fFe-qh
#londonpoetry #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch #bookstagram #preorder
Pre-order now! 📖https://tr.ee/RIo1fFe-qh
#londonpoetry #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch #bookstagram #preorder
October 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Cover reveal of Kazim Ali's (@kazimali.bsky.social) Indian Winter! Coming out in November this year.
Pre-order now! 📖https://tr.ee/RIo1fFe-qh
#londonpoetry #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch #bookstagram #preorder
Pre-order now! 📖https://tr.ee/RIo1fFe-qh
#londonpoetry #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch #bookstagram #preorder
📖ACT ANNOUNCEMENT📖
We will be celebrating the launch of Autobiography of a Performance by Blue Pieta/Bhanu Kapil, with a performance featuring vocalist/musician Kath Gifford
Join the87press for our next MUSHAIRA
October 24th 2025, Cafe OTO
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
We will be celebrating the launch of Autobiography of a Performance by Blue Pieta/Bhanu Kapil, with a performance featuring vocalist/musician Kath Gifford
Join the87press for our next MUSHAIRA
October 24th 2025, Cafe OTO
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
October 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
📖ACT ANNOUNCEMENT📖
We will be celebrating the launch of Autobiography of a Performance by Blue Pieta/Bhanu Kapil, with a performance featuring vocalist/musician Kath Gifford
Join the87press for our next MUSHAIRA
October 24th 2025, Cafe OTO
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...
We will be celebrating the launch of Autobiography of a Performance by Blue Pieta/Bhanu Kapil, with a performance featuring vocalist/musician Kath Gifford
Join the87press for our next MUSHAIRA
October 24th 2025, Cafe OTO
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...