We are pleased to share with you our 2024 poetry list, including an urgent and timely collection of poems by prominent Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah — […], forthcoming 21 March 2024 — and the third poetry collection by Azad Ashim Sharma — Boiled Owls, forthcoming 18 April 2024 — alongside titles by Jay Gao, Juana Adcock, Rebecca McCutcheon and Rojbîn Arjen Yigit.
Out-Spoken Press Editor Anthony Anaxagorou says:
“With all the horrors taking place at the moment, the poets in our forthcoming list offer insight, artfulness and integrity, at a time when so many of us may feel withdrawn and hopeless. From war, displacement, climate breakdown and psychological trauma, these particular books reflect on what it means to not only be alive in the world, but to survive it.”
Fady Joudah’s [...] is a raw, weighted account engaging largely with the diasporic experience as a Palestinian American, and will be published in March. Joudah is a prominent Palestinian American physician and poet, and a winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arab American Book Award. On the title of [...] Joudah says: “I wrote the bulk of this collection between October and December of 2023. I could not imagine a title for the book or for most of its poems in a time of extermination. The text of the poems already says enough. The text also betrays a necessary silence. And yet the silence in the book is the silence that the reader, listener, recipient should practice. In some moments I share this silence with them, and they with me. In many moments, however, the silence is solely their task. The ellipsis in brackets highlight the space in which a Palestinian speaks and others listen.”
Editor Anaxagorou acquired UK and Irish rights to [...] from Tanya McKinnon of McKinnon Literary. North American rights were acquired by Milkweed Editions.
Azad Ashim Sharma’s third collection, Boiled Owls — described by Bhanu Kapil as “a stunning rendition of “half imaginary geography,”’ — demystifies drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, and anxiety whilst thinking through their relation to capitalism and its resistance, the family, and a writer’s compulsion to write, and will be published in April.
Anaxagorou acquired UK and Irish rights to Boiled Owls from Suresh Ariaratnam at Spring Sultan.
The Press has acquired rights to Juana Adcock’s debut collection, I Sugar The Bones, forthcoming October 2024. UK and Irish rights acquired by Anaxagorou directly from the author.
Anaxagorou’s 2024 list is completed by a new title, Bark, Archive, Splinter, by award-winning poet Jay Gao, and debuts by Rebecca McCutcheon and Rojbîn Arjen Yigit.