We’re delighted to invite you to the second London launch of October, the debut collection by Lebanese poet Nur Turkmani. Nur will be joined in conversation by fellow Hajar Press poet Zena Agha.

In these spare and soulful poems, Nur Turkmani reflects on transformation and loss over six Octobers in Lebanon since 2019. Moving between love and grief for home and its people, October holds the ordinary and the extraordinary in the same breath, asking how we hold what’s disappearing, or changing too quickly to make sense of.

Nur Turkmani is a writer from Beirut. Her work appears in Poetry, New England Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus and others. Her debut poetry collection, October, was published by Hajar Press in 2026 and is longlisted for the 2026 Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection. Nur was awarded the Anthony Veasna So Scholarship for fiction from The Adroit Journal.

Zena Aghais a Palestinian-Iraqi writer and poet from London. She has received fellowships from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her writing has been featured by The Margins, The New York Times and NPR. Objects from April and May is her first collection.

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