Oh this is exquisitely, painfully beautiful. Nafeesa shared her poetry with us at Arvon a while ago and I’ve been meaning to get the book ever since. Inspiring and honest. Nafeesa Hamid thank you.

Students from 7C and 7H representing the groups with Nafeesa Hamid

We're proud to be championing local poets as we launch BBC Contains Strong Language Festival on Thursday 8th Sep with a knock-your-socks-off line-up: #LizBerry Luke Kennard 🦋Romalyn Ante FRSL🗡 Roy McFarlane rmcfarlane63 AND Nafeesa Hamid 😍 Tickets are FREE but limited, snap them up! buff.ly/3vUdaEy

#TheSealeyChallenge Day 10
The Sealey Challenge: Besharam by Nafeesa Hamid, published by Verve Poetry Press: #poet ry #poems #poet internetofwords.com/2022/08/10/the…

'Notes from a Pandemic' project in partnership with Bham City Council Healthy Brum and Birmingham Stories.

Nafeesa Hamid's excellent response to the pandemic, plus resources for schools, is here 👇

literacytrust.org.uk/communities/bi…

Such a great week assistant directing on c90 Qawwali: Emperor in Birmingham! Great team! So proud of what we achieved in 5 days 💖

My mate Sam is a multi talented babe and I'm v excited for this book launch and to get my mitts on their book! x

It has been great being assistant director and working with Stan's cafe on this show so far. Do book your tickets and come along if you're in B'ham! #Qawwalilove

1980-Stratford Rd-Nursrat Fateh Ali Kahn helps workers find transendence. 40yrs on 2 young Kashmiri Brummies search for the aftershock. Team=Tas Bashir Nafeesa Hamid Rupinder Gerard Bell,Muhibb Nazir Rachel Sambrooks Dominic Thompson Michael Valentine West Purbanat CIC free tix tinyurl.com/ccvrjs7j

Of course, we're not launching just one anthology today...

Happy Publication Day to

POEMS OF THE DECADE 2011-2020: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE FORWARD BOOKS OF POETRY

The Shakespeare Line Project was such an exciting project to be a part of! Check out my poem at Small Heath Station, as well as other poets who have poems dotted along the Shakespeare Line that runs from Moor St, Birmingham - Stratford Upon Avon

It was such a pleasure to publish Nafeesa Hamid 's incredible debut back in 2018. It really is the gift that keeps on giving. She is such a talented poet❤️

I'm real proud of myself today :) #ForwardPrizes #Poemsofthedecade

This Saturday from 2:30pm, @sabbakhan_, debut author of graphic memoir THE ROLES WE PLAY, will be in conversation with Roo Kaur Dhissou for the next #BeyondBooks (in person!) event 😁 Register here: thefrontroom.cc/events/beyond-…

There’s been so much praise for #TheRolesWePlay (& rightly so!). Love this from Zeba Talkhani! There’s so much to unpack in this book, from @sabbakhan_’s life experiences & journeys to the most beautiful illustrations. #BeyondBooks bit.ly/bbsabba

This season’s return of Apples and Snakes #HitTheOde is a brilliant #Brum lineup inc (finally) a feature set from founder & long time host Bohdan Piasecki ; guest host Polarbear (Steven Camden) + Jasmine Gardosi Nafeesa Hamid Jess May Davies Lexia and DJ set from Casey Bailey

Time and time again the Police show they are hear to protect corporations, the bourgeouisie and their interests.
I was at the protest yesterday and it was nothing but peaceful. Disgusting behaviour from West Midlands Police beating up peaceful protestors. 🤬

This was such a great project to work on. Hear our poems for the Shakespeare Line on the Overhear app now!

18 new poetsandprattlers poems in the app! Kurly’s Poetry - school workshops Giovanni Esposito Matt 'man' Windle Hannah Swingler Jasmine Gardosi Nafeesa Hamid Kibriya Mehrban Roz Goddard Nellie Cole dreadlockalien Joe Cook matt black Dave Pitt 🐀 @[email protected] Emma Purshouse Poet steve pottinger CommaJane

I've never watched it, but fuck Eurovision