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Reflecting on 6 years of the87press with Azad Ashim Sharma and Kashif Sharma-Patel
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Reflecting on 6 years of the87press with Azad Ashim Sharma and Kashif Sharma-Patel

Director of the press Azad Ashim Sharma and Head Editor Kashif Sharma-Patel reflect upon six years of the87press. They touch upon the development of the press within the context of the British poetry scene, the perils of professionalisation, structural problems for independent presses, the embattled problem of representation and much more.

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[Digital Poetics 4.12] Excerpts from “Palestinian Literature of Resistance Under Occupation, 1948-1968” by Ghassan Kanafani (trans. Hadeel Jamal)
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[Digital Poetics 4.12] Excerpts from “Palestinian Literature of Resistance Under Occupation, 1948-1968” by Ghassan Kanafani (trans. Hadeel Jamal)

Hadeel Jamal translates two excerpts from Ghassan Kanafani’s “Palestinian Literature of Resistance Under Occupation, 1948-1968” (1968) which provides analysis on the Palestinian artist’s role in resistance and its global dimension. The excerpts shed light on the deep emotional and cognitive solidarity between Palestinians and other oppressed peoples – which is as relevant now as ever.

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[Digital Poetics 4.9] Four Poems by Stuart McPherson
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[Digital Poetics 4.9] Four Poems by Stuart McPherson

Set firmly within contemporary Britain, these four pieces look at the linkage between power, media, and financial institutions, and explore their impact upon displaced people, the impoverished, and the working class. The poems discuss how narratives are controlled, how power is wielded with a view to maintaining the status quo, often at the negation of human life and the health of wider society itself.

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