Everyone is layered

« [...] Mon moi superstitieux, ou mon moi spirituel, a pensé que je devais l’avoir entendu pour une raison. C’est peut-être pour ça qu’on a pas droit à l’appel à la prière en Occident, les sorcières astro “open chackra” girlies pourraient aussi le prendre comme un signe [...] » 

La collection est inaugurée par Nesrine Salem, curatrice et éditrice de SABR/Collection, dans un numéro pilote. 

À travers sa polyglossie, l’autrice célèbre la pluralité de son identité et conduit ses recherches autour des traumatismes intergénérationnels, du tokenisme et des pratiques de deuil. 

SABR/Collection est une série de publications qui rassemble des œuvres littéraires de format court et de genres variés. Dirigée par Nesrine Salem, la collection souhaite mettre en avant les macro-réalités des auteur·ices choisi·es pour rendre visible le caractère intersectionnel des luttes.

Askia Touré was there at the birth of the Black Arts Movement. He was there at the birth of Black Power. In the era of decolonisation, Touré’s visionary poems and essays spoke powerfully to the Tricontinental struggle against the forces of colonialism and white supremacy in Latin America, Asia and Africa. They continue to speak to this struggle today. This 50th anniversary edition of Touré’s visionary 1972 book Songhai! is his first UK book publication and provides a powerful guide to the states and stages of Black radical politics not only during and up to 1972, but into our uncertain future.

Reprinted with a new foreword and original preface by Askia Touré, original introduction by John Oliver Killens, and a new introduction by David Grundy. Illustrations by Abdul Rahman.

Askia Touré is one of the pioneers of the Black Arts / Black Aesthetics movement and the Africana Studies movement. Ishmael Reed has called Touré “the unsung poet laureate of cosmopolitan Black Nationalism.” His poetry has been published across the United States and internationally, including in Paris, Rome, India, and The People’s Republic of China. His books include From the Pyramids to the Projects, winner of the 1989 American Book Award for Literature; African Affirmations: Songs for Patriots: New Poems, 1994 to 2004, and Mother Earth Responds. In 1996, he was awarded the prestigious Gwendolyn Brooks Lifetime Achievement award from the Gwendolyn Brooks Institute in Chicago. Now based in Massachusetts, since August 2019, Mr. Touré has been reading with the Makanda Orchestra, beginning with a celebration of the South African musician Ndikho Xaba.

"Like the Elizabeth Bishop painting “Interior with Extension Cord,” Kelly Clare’s helical, light-filled Universal Product Code delicately traces a bewildering infrastructure. This incantatory song, “busy in green,” points its reader to the disturbing beauty in stripey checksum barcodes, to arrays of imported figs at the grocer, to words like cloud or lime that now mean too much. Humorous, musical, perspicacious, this chapbook rocks."

- Katherine Gibbel, April 2026

Includes 3 poems by Dre Roelandt.
Published as part of Paraphernalia and Addenda 2.2 of Tabloid Publications.

“Perhaps much of what we once believed was never truth but a gentle and necessary illusion.It was something we chose quietly and almost unconsciously so we could continue without falling apart.” 

Bayan Abu Nahla is a visual artist born in 2001 in Gaza, Palestine. Her artistic practice functions as a visual diary, documenting and reflecting rapidly evolving events, both before and after the genocide. Through her work, she explores realities and daily living conditions often unknown to those who have not lived in Gaza. 

SABR/Collection is a series of publications that bring together short literary works in a variety of genres. Curated by Nesrine Salem, SABR/Collection wishes to highlight the macro-realities of the authors chosen, to make visible the intersectional nature of struggles.

Real Estate Portfolio by Claire Barrow
7 panel concertina + covers / total of 16 pages 
9.6 × 14 cm folded / 98 cm extended
Riso 250gsm recycled offset exterior, litho 135gsm recycled offset interior 
Glassine sleeve, digitally printed on the front & back

Self-published edition of 300, signed by the artist
Constructed in the UK (£0.016 per cm²)

The zine was drawn in one session using the right wrong hand.