BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251008T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251008T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234737 CREATED:20250910T142854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T132245Z UID:70091-1759950000-1759955400@housmans.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: 'The Feminist Art of Walking'\, Rose Morag in discussion with Anna Minton DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome feminist writer and academic Morag Rose to the shop to discuss her brilliant and essential new book The Feminist Art of Walking; a vital intervention in the growing field of ‘literature about walking.’ \n\n\n\nThe allure of the city is powerful\, but not universally accessible. For many women\, it can be exclusionary\, exploitative and dangerous. In The Feminist Art of Walking\, Morag Rose shows how women can and do claim their place in the public space. \n\n\n\nSetting off to explore cities and towns across Britain\, she traces local histories and personal stories and attunes herself to the wider resonances of women’s rights amidst alienating capitalist cityscapes. Craving connection and comradeship\, she discovers a unique and inclusive approach to walking\, celebrating diverse women who transform walking into an art form and act of resistance. \n\n\n\nBy experiencing the pleasures and pains of pedestrian exploration\, she shows us how to reconnect with and become enchanted by our streets. \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nMorag Rose is a walking artist activist and academic. She is founder of the Loiterers Resistance Movement and a senior lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool. Her work focuses on public space\, regeneration\, access\, equality\, psychogeographies and the power of creative\, communal walking. In discussion with Morag we welcome back to Housmans Anna Minton. Anna spent a decade in journalism\, and went on to write ‘Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First Century City ‘ and ‘Big Capital: Who is London for?’. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. 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URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-the-feminist-art-of-walking-by-rose-morag/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Chosen-design-edit-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234737 CREATED:20250910T153442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250917T154708Z UID:70103-1760554800-1760560200@housmans.com SUMMARY:DOUBLE LAUNCH: Danny Hayward AND Matthew Goulish DESCRIPTION:Housmans and both are worse are delighted to be launching two new excellent essay collections\, Training Exercises by Danny Hayward and Kingfisher by Matthew Goulish. ‘both are worse‘ publish short prose books that make an engaging comment on the state of poetry and/or poetics\, stretches some horizons\, pushes out beyond an impasse\, heaps up obstructions\, or makes life more difficult or liveable in any way that seems compelling\, vital\, or beautiful. Studies of single authors\, histories of communities or forms\, manifestos\, treatises on metre\, philosophies of phonation\, provocations of every stripe and blotch\, dream diaries\, long jokes\, spreadsheets or inscrutable swirls of one-dimensional Venn diagrams are all possible: anything that works. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS:\n\n\n\nDanny Hayward‘s Training Exercises:\n\n\n\n‘Organized violence committed on ordinary speech’ is therapy for those who don’t believe in literature as value. Training Exercises is an unpacking of that dictum: seven short essays\, letters\, reports and anti-biographies written to overcome the feeling of resistance to the defacement of what strikes us as true. An anti-purge written out by lipstick or hammer\, scrawled over the top of itself and run through a translation program that turns everything upside inside down\, its pieces include: a polemic against catharsis; a letter to the poet Dom Hale on his book Seizures; and a series of on-the-spot reports on the UK Illegal Migration Bill\, East London poetry readings\, the politics of the war in Ukraine\, and a conversation about the meaning of damage in contemporary literature. \n\n\n\n‘First you learn to write down your ideas\, then you learn again how to write all of your lurid political and intellectual and intimate disappointments and all of your childhood hopes over the top of them’. Jack Spicer scrawled the name of his book in pink lipstick on the cover of the academic journal he had published in: Training Exercises scrawls itself on top of that. \n\n\n\nDanny Hayward‘s most recent poetry collection is Loading Terminal (87 Press\, 2022). More recent work\, along with an earlier collection of critical essays\, can be accessed at Free Trials \n\n\n\nMatthew Goulish’s Kingfisher: \n\n\n\nThe dramaturg\, writer\, and teacher Matthew Goulish reflects on the practice of reading poetry\, of reading just one poem: ‘Kingfisher’ by Ed Roberson. How to attend\, to follow the course of poem as a waterway\, to recognise in its surface tension impending drops\, hidden obstacles\, and disguised turns? How also and at the same time to attend to an interruption – an accidental sighting – with equal curiosity? Sincerity follows the lines of the poem inside and outside\, inward and outward\, drawing in a series of correspondences and correspondents\, roots and sources\, until reading becomes a collective endeavor; the words of Ed Roberson\, Michelle Sherburne\, Renee Gladman\, and Lyn Hejinian are also here. As the subject of this particular poem surfaces\, to catch a glimpse is not so obviously a gift: the practice of catching sight might also be injurious to another’s freedom. And so we follow the trail of the poem through Smuggler’s Notch. \n\n\n\nAbout the author: Matthew Goulish co-founded Every house has a door in 2008 with Lin Hixson. He is dramaturg\, writer\, and sometimes performer with the company. He was a founding member of Goat Island\, the Chicago-based performance group that existed from 1987 to 2009. His books include 39 microlectures – in proximity of performance (Routledge\, 2001)\, The Brightest Thing in the World – 3 Lectures from the Institute of Failure (Green Lantern Press\, 2012)\, Work from Memory: In Response to In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust\, co-authored with Dan Beachy-Quick (Ahsahta Press\, 2012) and Pitch and Revelation—Reconfigurations of Reading\, Poetry\, and Philosophy through the Work of Jay Wright\, co-authored with Will Daddario (Punctum Books\, 2022). His essays have appeared in Richard Rezac Address (University of Chicago Press\, 2018)\, Propositions in the Making – Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory (Rowman & Littlefield\, 2020)\, and many other journals and anthologies. He teaches in the Writing Program of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/double-launch-danny-haywood-and-matthew-goulish/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Untitled-design-3-edited.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234737 CREATED:20250910T165440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T165505Z UID:70135-1760641200-1760646600@housmans.com SUMMARY:the87press & Housmans Bookshop present: Hummingbirds 7.0\, a literary salon DESCRIPTION:Join the87press for a very special Hummingbirds event featuring Alia Al Ghussain and Rayya El Zein to celebrate the launch of Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic (Indiana University Press\, 2025). \n\n\n\nBased on ethnographic research in Ramallah (Palestine)\, Amman (Jordan)\, and Beirut (Lebanon)\, Filling the Head reveals how youths in these cities have maneuvered the challenges of making music while also navigating shifting geopolitical landscapes. Through these everyday experiences of being moved by music or ideas\, Rayya El Zein explores how ordinary patterns of motion and emotion provide a space for political engagement when spectacular political movements like protests\, strikes\, or revolutions feel far away\, forced\, or otherwise impossible. In contrast to existing narratives that equate rap with popular political resistance against oppressive regimes\, she argues instead for affective engagement through istifzaz―provocation or surprise―as well as yearning. Within this avant-garde genre\, there is no design to reach the masses with a political message; in fact\, as El Zein demonstrates\, the refusal of artists to confine their lyrical or musical experimentation to an ethos of resistance creates an aesthetic whose lack of singular politics defines it. \n\n\n\nHummingbirds is a literary salon curated by the87press aiming to hold space for authors and interlocutors to have conversations about recently published work. This iteration charts a new thread in that conversation which aims to bring academic publishing to a community audience. \n\n\n\nHost: Azad Ashim Sharma\, Founding Director of the87press. \n\n\n\nInterlocutor: Alia Al Ghussain \n\n\n\nAuthor: Rayya El Zein \n\n\n\nTICKETS CAN BE BOOKED HERE: \n\n\nRegister on EventbriteShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/the87press-housmans-bookshop-present-hummingbirds-7-0-a-literary-salon/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Discussion group,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T234737 CREATED:20250910T164157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T164200Z UID:70128-1761246000-1761256800@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY Imogen Cassels & Fintan Calpin DESCRIPTION:We’re extremely excited for the next Housmans poetry series featuring a double launch for two brilliant poets. We will have the frighteningly sharp\, inimitable Imogen Cassels launching her latest pamphlet\, Peach Machine (from The Last Books) and the terrifyingly brilliant\, irreplaceable Fintan Calpin launching his Terminal City (recently published by Veer2). \n\n\n\nTHIS IS A FREE EVENT. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO BYOB. SEE YOU THERE! \n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/poetry-imogen-cassels-fintan-calpin/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/tickets-5.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR