the87press presents Hummingbirds 4.0, a literary salon at Housmans Bookshop.

For our first 2025 literary salon we will welcome Waithera Sebatindira and Azad Ashim Sharma, who will read from their recent works, Through an Addict’s Looking-Glass (Hajar Press, 2023) and Boiled Owls (Out-Spoken Press, 2024). Both these texts work their way through the throes and trials of addiction and contend with the promises of recovery.

After their readings, Waithera and Azad will be in conversation with Dr Abeera Khan (SOAS) to discuss their work.

Join us for an inspiring evening!

Waithera Sebatindira is an East African writer based in London. They are the author of Through an Addict’s Looking-Glass (Hajar Press, 2023), and their work has appeared in Vittles, DOPE and Art + Christianity.

Azad Ashim Sharma is the director of the87press and serves as poetry editor at Philosophy and Global Affairs and The CLR James Journal. He is a PhD Candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Boiled Owls (Nightboat Books, 2024). His second collection, Ergastulum: Vignettes of Lost Time (Broken Sleep Books, 2022), was the recipient of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award. He lives in South London.

Abeera Khan is Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality at the SOAS Centre for Gender Studies. She has published on the interrelatedness between empire, gender, race and sexuality in The Contrapuntal, Feminist Review, Feminist Formations, lambda nordica and Religion and Gender. She is co-editor of ‘Abolitions: Writing Against Abandonment’, a 40th-anniversary special issue of Wasafiri magazine.

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