Hajar Press, Maqam Books and Mosaic Rooms are delighted to invite you to the first London launch of October, the debut collection by Lebanese poet Nur Turkmani. Nur will be joined in conversation by editor Farhaana Arefin.

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.