ORDER the collection direct from the publisher here Afshan D’souza-Lodhi’s debut poetry collection re: desire explores the yearning to love, be loved and belong from a desi (South Asian) perspective. Her work sits on the intersections of flash fiction, poetry and script, echoing the hybridity of the worlds that many young British desis find themselves occupying. Drawing on […]

Tell Me Who We Were Before Life Made Us is a poetry anthology edited by Maz Hedgehog. Published in June 2021. buy direct from the publisher: https://www.3ofcups.co.uk/shop/bp7b87wb0vwn21ofqkfqaunexo17ya This is an anthology about imagined histories. Featuring poetry inspired by fairy tales, folklore, urban legends, creation myths, founding myths, Greek/Haitian/Indian/Mancunian myths. Here are our counterfactuals, our apocrypha, […]

afshan has a poem featured on Nymphs & Thugs new album Disarm Hate: We Will Keep On. The ‘Disarm Hate x Poetry’ project commissioned 16 of the world’s leading LGBTQ poets to respond to the ‘Disarm Hate‘ documentary. The resulting album was released digitally on 12 June, which marks five years since the Orlando massacre. […]

afshan was commissioned by ​The National Black Arts Alliance, Ruskin’s Guild of St George, and Manchester Metropolitan University to respond directly to quotes from Ruskin for a project entitled Everybody Deserves Space. The film was created by students at the University. The quote afshan responded to was: It must be evident to us, at a moment’s thought, […]