Only three days left to get applications in for our online academy courses with these brilliant poets.

Lovely interview I did with Dante Silva from Nightboat Books and have had lots of supportive engagement with it. There's some shade, some craft, some recovery talk. But it's all about The Poems.

WOULD you like to spend May focusing on your poetry & learning from fantastic tutors?

THREE days left to apply for the next intensive online Out-Spoken Academy courses:

> STD: naa adukwɛi Jack Underwood Anthony Anaxagorou
> MINI: John McCullough 🏳️‍🌈 Fran Lock

outspokenldn.com/academy

BOILED OWLS is out next week in the UK

outspokenldn.com/shop/owls

BOILED OWLS is out next week in the UK

outspokenldn.com/shop/owls

'Boiled Owls represents a first for me in approaching the page with a sense of imminent closure or battling with the edges of closed form with the indeterminacy that recovery participates in.'

— Azad Ashim Sharma interviewed on Nightboat Books

nightboat.org/an-interview-w…

WOULD you like to spend May focusing on your poetry & learning from fantastic tutors?

THREE days left to apply for the next intensive online Out-Spoken Academy courses:

> STD: naa adukwɛi Jack Underwood Anthony Anaxagorou
> MINI: John McCullough 🏳️‍🌈 Fran Lock

outspokenldn.com/academy

Book now! Poetry Book Editors' Panel, with Aaron Kent of Broken Sleep Books, Anthony Anaxagorou of Out-Spoken Press and هستی hasti of Montez Press, chaired by our very own billie manning.

20/04. 11:45 – 12:30. £3. Free Verse, St Columba's, SW1X 0BD. poetrysociety.org.uk/event/free-ver…
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Next month Azad Ashim Sharma will be continuing to launch his book Boiled Owls at Placeholder in Brighton. Pre/order the book here via Out-Spoken Press and bring your copy down to get it signed ❤️ Azad's first royalties check goes to mutual aid for Palestine 🇵🇸 outspokenldn.com/shop/owls

‘I love you because you are. You wanted to know if it’ll be fine if you could take my slippers this morning.
(…)
The city is the greatest con-artist; she acknowledges the true thief of living conditions there is more space here.’

Excerpt from ‘BIRTHDAY SONG’
COMING 18.04.24

‘Long Live Filasteen’ a fundraising gig for Gaza in London on 1st May with Shadia Mansour Immortal Technique Lowkey MIC RIGHTEOUS and Snuff The DJ An old school line up to fund aid and therapy for Gaza. I’ll be hosting alongside Poison Pen Get Tickets dice.fm/event/gv7gp-lo…

The inimitable Fady Joudah read tonight from his new collection of poetry “…” so much brilliance, sadness and heaviness — yet above all love, Palestinian love even during genocide.

Every piece hits. Fady Joudah’s new collection from Out-Spoken Press.
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Not long ago, I was like you.
Before the light hit me.

there is no placeholder brighton in april, but we're back on 13th may! with readings from Azad Ashim Sharma Pratyusha and Sara Crangle. see you at the Hope and Ruin, 7.30pm doors, £3 cash only.

Just ten days left to apply for our next Academy course!

Spend six intensive weeks of poetry with tutors naa adukwɛi Jack Underwood & Anthony Anaxagorou:
> 6 May-14 June
> 3 evening workshops & a one-to-one tutorial each week

Find out more & apply:
outspokenldn.com/standard-course

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In his upcoming collection, Sharma explores addiction eloquently and unfiltered, without the ‘lens of pity’. Throughout ‘Boiled Owls’, we get to know a speaker’s psychology intimately and opens up discussion for wider society.

Coming to Free Verse Poetry Book & Magazine Fair?

Join us for our Poetry Book Editors' Panel with Out-Spoken Press editor Anthony Anaxagorou, هستی hasti of Montez Press and Broken Sleep Books editor Aaron Kent, chaired by billie manning. 11:45, 20/04, SW1X 0BD.

poetrysociety.org.uk/event/free-ver…

“[Editor’s note: This hospital’s cause of death could not be independently verified.]”

Give your heart a minute for this one.