Azad Ashim Sharma
@azad-ashim.bsky.social
Writerly Poet and Director of @the87press.bsky.social.
Based in SW London. Free Palestine.
Based in SW London. Free Palestine.
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Azad Ashim Sharma
@azad-ashim.bsky.social
· Nov 20
hey all - the wonderful publishing house I co-founded and direct, @the87press.bsky.social, is now on here. Please help us make the transition from the other place! Add us to all book related starter packs!
June 14th is the Date, Cafe Oto is the venue: www.cafeoto.co.uk/.../the87pre... Please share widely and buy your ticket early to avoid disappointment.
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May 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
June 14th is the Date, Cafe Oto is the venue: www.cafeoto.co.uk/.../the87pre... Please share widely and buy your ticket early to avoid disappointment.
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💫 We’re delighted that Boiled Owls by @azad-ashim.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize for Poetry 💫
❤️🔥 to see Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam there, & alongside titles by @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social @rushikawick.bsky.social
🙏 to the judging panel & congrats to all the shortlisted poets
❤️🔥 to see Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam there, & alongside titles by @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social @rushikawick.bsky.social
🙏 to the judging panel & congrats to all the shortlisted poets
April 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
💫 We’re delighted that Boiled Owls by @azad-ashim.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize for Poetry 💫
❤️🔥 to see Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam there, & alongside titles by @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social @rushikawick.bsky.social
🙏 to the judging panel & congrats to all the shortlisted poets
❤️🔥 to see Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam there, & alongside titles by @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social @rushikawick.bsky.social
🙏 to the judging panel & congrats to all the shortlisted poets
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Last Hummingbirds we had a very interesting discussion with Waithera Sebatindira, azad-ashim.bsky.social and Dr. Abeera Khan.
Don't miss out on Hummingbirds 5 at buff.ly/s7lz9vE%F0%9... With kazimali.bsky.social and alycia.bsky.social
Tickets are free with registration🎟️ buff.ly/edkbp7B
Don't miss out on Hummingbirds 5 at buff.ly/s7lz9vE%F0%9... With kazimali.bsky.social and alycia.bsky.social
Tickets are free with registration🎟️ buff.ly/edkbp7B
March 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Last Hummingbirds we had a very interesting discussion with Waithera Sebatindira, azad-ashim.bsky.social and Dr. Abeera Khan.
Don't miss out on Hummingbirds 5 at buff.ly/s7lz9vE%F0%9... With kazimali.bsky.social and alycia.bsky.social
Tickets are free with registration🎟️ buff.ly/edkbp7B
Don't miss out on Hummingbirds 5 at buff.ly/s7lz9vE%F0%9... With kazimali.bsky.social and alycia.bsky.social
Tickets are free with registration🎟️ buff.ly/edkbp7B
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Congratulations to Saba Kermati for winning the 2025 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize ⭐
Check out the winning collection Self-Mythology at our online shop 📚 buff.ly/GDdRwnA
Check out the winning collection Self-Mythology at our online shop 📚 buff.ly/GDdRwnA
March 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Congratulations to Saba Kermati for winning the 2025 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize ⭐
Check out the winning collection Self-Mythology at our online shop 📚 buff.ly/GDdRwnA
Check out the winning collection Self-Mythology at our online shop 📚 buff.ly/GDdRwnA
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A look into the new collection of poetry gestalt by the talented Karenjit Sandhu @k_ren_sandhu
Now available for pre-order, publishing on 10th April ✨
#letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch #preorder #smallpresspublishing #BookLover
Now available for pre-order, publishing on 10th April ✨
#letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch #preorder #smallpresspublishing #BookLover
March 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A look into the new collection of poetry gestalt by the talented Karenjit Sandhu @k_ren_sandhu
Now available for pre-order, publishing on 10th April ✨
#letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch #preorder #smallpresspublishing #BookLover
Now available for pre-order, publishing on 10th April ✨
#letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #WritingCommunity #BookLaunch #preorder #smallpresspublishing #BookLover
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We have Kazim Ali (kazimali.bsky.social), author of The Voice of Sheila Chandra, at Hummingbirds 5.0 at Housmans Bookshop (housmansbookshop.bsky.social) 📚
Join us for a enlightening eve with Kazim and Alycia Pirmohamed reading from their recent works, following a discussion with Azad Ashim Sharma
Join us for a enlightening eve with Kazim and Alycia Pirmohamed reading from their recent works, following a discussion with Azad Ashim Sharma
April 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We have Kazim Ali (kazimali.bsky.social), author of The Voice of Sheila Chandra, at Hummingbirds 5.0 at Housmans Bookshop (housmansbookshop.bsky.social) 📚
Join us for a enlightening eve with Kazim and Alycia Pirmohamed reading from their recent works, following a discussion with Azad Ashim Sharma
Join us for a enlightening eve with Kazim and Alycia Pirmohamed reading from their recent works, following a discussion with Azad Ashim Sharma
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Excerpt from gestalt, IV, "vat," page 37.
gestalt by Karenjit Sandhu is out on April 10th 2025!
Pre-order your copy: www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/gestalt
gestalt by Karenjit Sandhu is out on April 10th 2025!
Pre-order your copy: www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/gestalt
April 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Excerpt from gestalt, IV, "vat," page 37.
gestalt by Karenjit Sandhu is out on April 10th 2025!
Pre-order your copy: www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/gestalt
gestalt by Karenjit Sandhu is out on April 10th 2025!
Pre-order your copy: www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/gestalt
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We’re thrilled to share the second episode of sub(VERSE)ive with guest poet Sarah Ghazal Ali! @sarahali.bsky.social
Watch the full conversation on Sarah’s debut collection THEOPHANIES (@the87press.bsky.social), including a reading:
Watch the full conversation on Sarah’s debut collection THEOPHANIES (@the87press.bsky.social), including a reading:
su(VERSE)ive: In Conversation with Sarah Ghazal Ali
sub(VERSE)ive is an exclusive limited interview series from Wasafiri. Hosted by Prerana Kumar, these conversations showcase established and emerging contempo...
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April 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
We’re thrilled to share the second episode of sub(VERSE)ive with guest poet Sarah Ghazal Ali! @sarahali.bsky.social
Watch the full conversation on Sarah’s debut collection THEOPHANIES (@the87press.bsky.social), including a reading:
Watch the full conversation on Sarah’s debut collection THEOPHANIES (@the87press.bsky.social), including a reading:
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✨ Restock day✨ This time it's @omarsakr.bsky.social Son of Sin 📚
Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet’s eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.
Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet’s eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.
April 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
✨ Restock day✨ This time it's @omarsakr.bsky.social Son of Sin 📚
Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet’s eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.
Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet’s eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.
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An excerpt from Recupera by Emma Gomis.
"Memory is a Ghost," page 1.
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"Memory is a Ghost," page 1.
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April 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
An excerpt from Recupera by Emma Gomis.
"Memory is a Ghost," page 1.
www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/recup...
"Memory is a Ghost," page 1.
www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/recup...
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We're thrilled to announce that we’ve signed Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social and will bring her debut poetry collection, Dear Diaspora, to the UK and Ireland in September!
This powerful collection, previously published by University of Nebraska Press, 2021, is a multi-award winner.
This powerful collection, previously published by University of Nebraska Press, 2021, is a multi-award winner.
April 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We're thrilled to announce that we’ve signed Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social and will bring her debut poetry collection, Dear Diaspora, to the UK and Ireland in September!
This powerful collection, previously published by University of Nebraska Press, 2021, is a multi-award winner.
This powerful collection, previously published by University of Nebraska Press, 2021, is a multi-award winner.
I had the great pleasure of having Rhoni read with me several times on my Boiled Owls US tour and these poems, now available at AWP in book form, moved me nearly to tears. Come and see this wonderful poet in action!
ROOMS FOR THE DEAD AND THE NOT YET will be at AWP 🏴☠️ preorder here triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...
March 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I had the great pleasure of having Rhoni read with me several times on my Boiled Owls US tour and these poems, now available at AWP in book form, moved me nearly to tears. Come and see this wonderful poet in action!
COME TO THIS LONDON www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the87press...
the87press & Housmans Bookshop present: Hummingbirds 5.0, a literary salon
Featuring Kazim Ali and Alycia Pirmohamed, in conversation with Azad Ashim Sharma
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March 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Delighted that Rushika Wick's Horse is on the Jhalak Prize longlist, alongside other brilliant poets including @azad-ashim.bsky.social, @mailbykite.bsky.social, and Nisha Ramayya.
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March 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Delighted that Rushika Wick's Horse is on the Jhalak Prize longlist, alongside other brilliant poets including @azad-ashim.bsky.social, @mailbykite.bsky.social, and Nisha Ramayya.
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www.jhalakprize.com/poetry-prize extremely grateful to have Boiled Owls longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2025 and mentioned amongst such illustrious company, in particular, alongside Nisha Ramayya whose work and example has always been a north-star for my own attempts at this life in letters.
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March 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
www.jhalakprize.com/poetry-prize extremely grateful to have Boiled Owls longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2025 and mentioned amongst such illustrious company, in particular, alongside Nisha Ramayya whose work and example has always been a north-star for my own attempts at this life in letters.
Two upcoming events, LA and Vancouver - hope to see you there!
March 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Two upcoming events, LA and Vancouver - hope to see you there!
anyone I know on here going to be at AWP? I'm reading at N Figueroa Bookshop with a Nightboat crew on the 03/28
March 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
anyone I know on here going to be at AWP? I'm reading at N Figueroa Bookshop with a Nightboat crew on the 03/28
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... There was a payment issue for people buying tickets that has now been resolved! Please buy them, please come! 3 new books from @the87press.bsky.social
Cafe OTO → Karenjit Sandhu + Harmony Holiday + Emma Gomis, Saturday 22 February 2025, 7.30pm
Welcome to the first MUSHAIRA of 2025! Join us for an unforgettable evening of poetry, performance, and music, curated by the87press. This February, we’re celebrating three exciting titles coming up l...
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February 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... There was a payment issue for people buying tickets that has now been resolved! Please buy them, please come! 3 new books from @the87press.bsky.social
hey friends - come to Oto this Saturday and witness the release of 3 new books from the87press - Harmony is coming through from LA, Emma from Paris, Karenjit from outside London. Show these brilliant writers a good time!!!
We're absolutely thrilled to bring Harmony Holiday's MAAFA to the UK and Ireland later this year! Traveling all the way from LA, Harmony will join us for an exclusive advance reading.
Join us for MUSHAIRA Feb 22 at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social
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Join us for MUSHAIRA Feb 22 at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social
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Cafe OTO → Karenjit Sandhu + Harmony Holiday + Emma Gomis, Saturday 22 February 2025, 7.30pm
Welcome to the first MUSHAIRA of 2025! Join us for an unforgettable evening of poetry, performance, and music, curated by the87press. This February, we’re celebrating three exciting titles coming up l...
www.cafeoto.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
hey friends - come to Oto this Saturday and witness the release of 3 new books from the87press - Harmony is coming through from LA, Emma from Paris, Karenjit from outside London. Show these brilliant writers a good time!!!
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‘I write into your poetry like a seeker watching for the changing nodes of tradition, I’ll be / buried on that horizon, its open sky.’
Following Peter Gizzi's T.S. Eliot Prize win for Fierce Elegy, @azad-ashim.bsky.social has penned a tribute poem. Read here:
Following Peter Gizzi's T.S. Eliot Prize win for Fierce Elegy, @azad-ashim.bsky.social has penned a tribute poem. Read here:
[Digital Poetics 4.26] Live Air (For Peter Gizzi) by Azad Ashim Sharma — the87press
A poem written in tribute to Peter Gizzi: ‘I write into your poetry like a seeker watching for the changing nodes of tradition, I’ll be / buried on that horizon, its open sky.’
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February 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
‘I write into your poetry like a seeker watching for the changing nodes of tradition, I’ll be / buried on that horizon, its open sky.’
Following Peter Gizzi's T.S. Eliot Prize win for Fierce Elegy, @azad-ashim.bsky.social has penned a tribute poem. Read here:
Following Peter Gizzi's T.S. Eliot Prize win for Fierce Elegy, @azad-ashim.bsky.social has penned a tribute poem. Read here:
Morning #booksky family - the second 2025 live event from @the87press.bsky.social is on 22nd Feb at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social featuring Emma Gomis, Karenjit Sandhu, and Harmony Holiday!! Please buy tickets here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... It's a triple book launch!
Cafe OTO → Karenjit Sandhu + Harmony Holiday + Emma Gomis, Saturday 22 February 2025, 7.30pm
Welcome to the first MUSHAIRA of 2025! Join us for an unforgettable evening of poetry, performance, and music, curated by the87press. This February, we’re celebrating three exciting titles coming up l...
www.cafeoto.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Morning #booksky family - the second 2025 live event from @the87press.bsky.social is on 22nd Feb at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social featuring Emma Gomis, Karenjit Sandhu, and Harmony Holiday!! Please buy tickets here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... It's a triple book launch!
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Dr. Abeera Khan will be chairing the conversation at Hummingbirds 4.0 on February 7th at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social 7 - 9pm! @azad-ashim.bsky.social and Waithera Sebatindira will read, followed by a conversation.
Tickets are free: https://buff.ly/40db4Or
Tickets are free: https://buff.ly/40db4Or
February 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Dr. Abeera Khan will be chairing the conversation at Hummingbirds 4.0 on February 7th at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social 7 - 9pm! @azad-ashim.bsky.social and Waithera Sebatindira will read, followed by a conversation.
Tickets are free: https://buff.ly/40db4Or
Tickets are free: https://buff.ly/40db4Or
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