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Coming up NEXT WEEK and ONLINE on June 17, this superb event at @brightbookfest with our 2025 winners and chaired by our director @ProfSunnySingh. Book ASAP: brightonbookfestival.co.uk/products/jhala…#jhalakprize252#jhalakprizeze
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June 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Your #JhalakPrize25 winners are here 🙌🏾 🎉

Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman, King of Nothing and Collected Poems are each luminous, immersive, vital books 👏🏿📚

Congratulations, N.S. Nuseibeh, Nathanael Lessore & Mimi Khalvati!

Find out more:
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June 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
BUY the brave, monumental, Biblical in scale and scope, #Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize.

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June 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
WATCH: A reading by the late Gboyega Odubanjo. His debut collection #Adam is shortlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize

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A reading by late Gboyega Odubanjo from Adam, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize
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June 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
DONATE: Gboyega Odubanjo's family have a fundraiser to continue his incredible legacy by supporting low-income Black writers. As we honour his powerful #Adam, shortlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize, we request you consider contributing to this:

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Donate to Gboyega Odubanjo – beloved son, brother, friend, organized by Rose Odubanjo
Loved by many and widely recognised as a voice of his generation, 27-yea… Rose Odubanjo needs your support for Gboyega Odubanjo – beloved son, brother, friend
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June 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
WATCH this powerful clip from his publishers,
@faberbooks.bsky.social where late Gboyega Odubanjo speaks about his extraordinary poetry collection #Adam, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize.

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Faber Books on X: "We are proud today to be publishing Gboyega Odubanjo's remarkable debut collection, Adam. Film visuals by Kareem Parkins-Brown, sound by Rei Sky. https://t.co/gshJgHvXcb https://t.co/wJ3hszhK9e" / X
We are proud today to be publishing Gboyega Odubanjo's remarkable debut collection, Adam. Film visuals by Kareem Parkins-Brown, sound by Rei Sky. https://t.co/gshJgHvXcb https://t.co/wJ3hszhK9e
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June 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
REVIEW at @theguardian.com of Gboyega Odubanjo's #Adam, shortlisted for Jhalak Poetry Prize: ‘...a collection filled with unexpected leaps of imagination.’

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Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo review – in memory of the missing
Inspired by an unidentified boy found dead in the Thames, the first – and only – collection by the late poet is an imaginative meditation on death and those who disappear
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June 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Judge Malika Booker sees 'A tender yet ambitious poetic that is both proverbial and praise song ... and elegiac lyricism.'

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June 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The #JhalakPrize25 Awards are this evening and we have just enough time to feature the late shortlisted poet Gboyega Odubanjo's #Adam @faberbooks.bsky.social. This is especially poignant for us. Gboyega worked with IS&T on 'Runaways London' as a poet and as an editor on 'Uprising & Resistance'.
June 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
SEE: Tonight (3rd June), @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social‬ with fellow Poetry Prize shortlistee Amaan Hyder and others from the Prose and C&YA Awards. Some tickets still available

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Gower St Presents: Jhalak Prize 2025 | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Gower St Presents: Jhalak Prize 2025 today.
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June 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
WATCH: A reading by @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social from her wild, weird and wonderful verse novel #TopDoll.

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Karen McCarthy Woolf reads from Top Doll, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize
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June 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
REVIEW at @telegraphnews.bsky.social of @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social's riotous, subversive #TopDoll, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize: ‘a strange picaresque...I’ve not read anything quite like it.’

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Loved Barbie? Try this mad novel about a millionaire’s drug-addicted dolls
Karen McCarthy Woolf imagines what went on in the plastic heads of a 104-year-old heiress’s toys in Top Doll, a weird and wild verse novel
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June 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
REVIEW at DURA of @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social's verse novel, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize: #TopDoll is ‘...a blast, being outrageously, subversively, laugh-aloud funny.’

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Top Doll
Karen McCarthy Woolf(Dialogue Books, 2024); hbk, £20      Infinity is an episode long     and troubling to decipher [,]                                          Dolly How might a writer work…
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June 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
WATCH: a reading by Azad Ashim Sharma from his compelling, audacious #BoiledOwls.

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Azad Ashim Sharma reads from Boiled Owls, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize
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June 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
READ an extract at @poetrydaily.bsky.social from Azad Ashim Sharma's dazzling poetry collection #BoiledOwls, shortlisted for Jhalak Poetry Prize

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Planetary Death Is a Hopeless Drug Addict
I'm sick of fighting currents, toxic with our need of currency and our hope for revolution.
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June 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Fascinating INTERVIEW at @therumpus.net with Azad Ashim Sharma about #BoiledOwls, shortlisted for Jhalak Poetry Prize, narco-poetics and poetics as transformative practice.

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Narco-poetics and the Voice of Recovery: A Conversation with Azad Ashim Sharma - The Rumpus
Hope stems in the imagination, in our capacity to re-imagine how life on this finite planet could coexist with non-human life and the cycles of shift that give us a cool summer breeze and the hurrican...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
REVIEW at Heavy Feather Review / @hfr.bsky.social: Azad Ashim Sharma's #BoiledOwls ‘offers a corporeal freshness that is enchanting and evocative...’

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Poetry Review: Rina Shamilov Reads Azad Ashim Sharma’s Collection Boiled Owls
The tenderness of Boiled Owls allows for an exchange of lamentation and suffering (albeit of a different kind) between the poem’s speaker and those he loves. The poems revive memory and depic…
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June 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
REVIEW at Serendip Studio of @rushikawick.bsky.social's superb poetry collection, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize: "#Horse will serve as a mirror for humanity and more..."

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Reading Horse: Thoughts on the Digital Humanities in Rushika Wick's Newest Book
Horse is only one letter different from house. A horse is ours and hours where a house is only yours or belonging to you all. It is not only the size, but the material requirements that make horses so...
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June 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The third poet shortlisted for the #JhalakPrize25 Poetry Prize that we are featuring is @rushikawick.bsky.social and her fine collection #Horse @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. Judge @jallenpaisant.bsky.social finds 'A work whose formal ambition and daring imprints itself on memory.'

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June 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM