About The Hythe Review

The87press welcomes you to The Hythe Review, launched as part of our commitment to widening critical conversations in literature, with a focus on poetry. The Hythe Review provides a space for literary conversations to take shape, coalescing around our shared inheritance of modernism, marxism(s), anti-colonialism, anti-racism, environmentalism, and a commitment to building literary political community around publications—as has always been the case with the work of the87press. The journal publishes interviews between critics, editors, and authors/artists alongside essays and new works of poetry, working through commissioned work and, ​​from our second issue onwards, open submissions which we will extend warmly to racialised/global majority authors and authors who are neurodiverse, LGBTQ+, and/or working-class. 
 
We prioritise experimental poetry and poetics that engage language and cultural identity, the transgression of colonial bordering, the role of aesthetic education in fostering cosmopolitanism-from-below and the possibilities of poetic form. We also give space to interesting and well-styled cultural essays that explore contemporary works of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry released by independent publishers only.  
 
The Hythe Review is produced in partnership with the Open Library of the Humanities (OLH) and other funding bodies such as Arts Council England. It provides a fee of £100 per commissioned/accepted piece of criticism or poetry (with the view to expand the remit to incorporate short fiction in the future). The journal also benefits from the formation of a new group of Associate Editors (Alycia Pirmohamed, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, and Abeera Khan) who will work closely with co-founders of the87press Azad Ashim Sharma and Kashif Sharma-Patel, who take up the roles of Commissioning and Managing Editors respectively for this new publication. 
 
The Hythe Review, released biannually, streamlines our digital platform and builds upon previous achievements. The Hythe and The Hythe+ will be combined into The Hythe Archive and housed on the87press website. The Hythe Review is available for free online, hosted on OLH's servers, and through libraries globally.