B-Sides & Outtakes
Project Type: Publication
Genre: Poetry
Title: B-Sides & Outtakes
Author: haroon
Design: Jason Malipol &
Anthony Mercer
Format: Paperback
Price: £14.99 + p&p (UK)
for delivery outside the UK please contact Haroon
B-Sides & Outtakes is the second book of poetry by Haroon, a collection of poems exploring identity, family, migration, neurodivergence, faith, grief, creativity, belonging and the strange business of becoming.
It is a pleasure to be working with Haroon again on this book which first drew breath as part of the process of bringing out Press Play - B-Sides was intended to be just that... the poems (tracks) which didn't find their way onto the A Side... but here's the thing, B-Sides has become greater than the sum of its parts, and it's still growing.
Because sometimes the B-sides turn out to be the songs that matter most.
Preorder a copy now and come along to a special launch event at Kismet Cafe, 104 Cavell Street, LondonE1 2JA, on Saturday October 24th 2026 - tickets available now on Eventbrite
"If Press Play was an urgent call to action, then B-sides and Outtakes is a testament to patience, alternately playful Blue Peter vibes, tender ‘at home in my frayed heart’ and hopeful, ’There is a life beyond endurance.‘
Haroon is an unforgettable British Pakistani voice. You are sure to meet him again on other pages, in other forms. Thank you, Haroon, for planting seeds with these poems, for sharing your frayed heart with us, and for reminding us that even storms run out of rain."
Vanessa Walters is the author of The Lagos Wife
and the forthcoming novel, Black Excellence.