'Sharma suggests that actual substance lies not in the pursuit of fleeting highs, but in being in touch with one's humanity'

🙏Jaylee Cox, of UConn Disability & Access Collective for reviewing Azad Ashim Sharma's Boiled Owls

disabilityaccesscollective.blog/2024/04/30/boi…

Order: outspokenldn.com/shop/owls

You can watch the extraordinary, beautiful People’s Graduation, at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, in full on Vimeo here:

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Fady Joudah at 0:53:00

This is the moment when my tears just could not stop. Fady Joudah your poetry is incredible

Now only a few remaining spaces for June’s Poetry Room. A weekly online course which focuses on generating new poems, close-readings and group feedback. anthonyanaxagorou.com/the-poetry-room

Bark, Archive, Splinter
by Jay Gao
is out NEXT WEEK

Order your copy here: outspokenldn.com/shop/bark

Bark, Archive, Splinter
by Jay Gao
is out NEXT WEEK

Order your copy here: outspokenldn.com/shop/bark

The LINEUP for this event
TODAY 11.45am - online

Register > crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41935/

Tonight! May 16th! I'm back onstage with my brilliant Out-Spoken friends Southbank Centre sharing new poems from my latest book #withlovegriefandfury The line up is gorgeous, it will be such a beautiful gathering, see you all down there! BIGlove Xx

🚨We invite book workers everywhere to join 200+ signatories and sign our open letter renewing our call for Baillie Gifford to divest from the fossil fuel industry and from companies that profit from Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide. fossilfreebooks.org/baillie-giffor…

Another absolute banger of a Placeholder last night. Thank you so much to Azad Ashim Sharma, Pratyusha, and Sara Crangle for three astonishing readings.

Vigil at University of Leicester student led encampment tomorrow evening to mark 76 years of the ongoing Palestinian Nakba. I’ll be performing some poetry as well as reading poems written by Palestinian poets. 7.45pm. Come through, in front of the Fielding Johnson building

So sorry to hear of the death of Kathryn Bevis. Thinking of her loved ones and those close to her, in poetry and beyond 🦋

Anyone who donates to this campaign, by writer Doha Kahlout, is welcome to a free e-book version of our 'Gaza! Gaza! Gaza!' to which she is a contributor.

Just DM and tell us you donated. Thank you.

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Cambridge friends, see you there 👋🏾

I will be in discussion with Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa and Bhanu Kapil, talking inheritances and fragmentations.

To hold Eurovision while bombing a refugee camp was something straight out of The Hunger Games. Very proud of the London LGBT community who boycotted Eurovision on mass.

It’s been 3 days since Dounia posted. I’m very worried about her and her family who are trapped in Rafah. In our last correspondence on Wednesday I asked her if they were ok. Her reply, ‘No. It’s so bad here.’