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SUMMARY:POETRY READING: Briony Hughes launches SPECULATIVE FREQUENCIES
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to welcome the daring and innovative poetry press Permeable Barrier back to Housmans and help them launch their sophomore publication: Speculative Frequencies by Briony Hughes. \n\n\n\n​In this invigorating new collection\, Briony Hughes uses her experiences tracking bats through the Surrey Hills as a means to expand ‘communication’ beyond the human body. The bat as a cultural figure is small\, blind\, nocturnal\, and occasionally sinister\, but in Hughes’ poems they become a medium through which to interrogate the most pressing issues of our time; what happens when we abandon concepts of human exceptionalism and see ourselves as animals existing with other animals within an ecosystem? In a book of innovative engagements with language and visuality\, Hughes explores the enmeshment of humanity within the natural world\, and finds a moving kinship with these exceptional\, easily overlooked creatures. \n\n\n\n“The connection is there; it has been all along\, but the poet boils it to our surface\, dear reader. This collection by Briony Hughes is a masterpiece in feeling the majesty of other creatures vibrating on our skin. Feel the tabbing tapping through a tooth! I love this book!”  \n\n\n\nCAConrad \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Where Nagel gave up on answering the question of what it is like to be a bat\, Briony Hughes leans in. This is a poet who sound-sees\, who turns the page into a night sky aflutter with creaturely life. Speculative Frequencies is at once an experimental field guide\, playful eco-survey and love poem to the more-than-human world.“ \n\n\n\n Isabel Galleymore \n\n\n\n“Think in diameters! Information must come to the intelligence from all the senses’ wrote Thomas A. Clark and this seemingly simple phrase speaks to what is happening in Briony Hughes’ Speculative Frequencies\, her intelligent\, sensual book of bats. Sound\, as we might expect\, is key\, a tapping\, tabbing\, pipping\, pitting\, batting against the ear through the echolocator onto the retro typewriter\, a human/machine/bat conversation that can never keep up but is suggestively\, erotically\, embodied onto the page a la Charles Olson and/or Maggie O’Sullivan. Other pages evoke the concrete works of Cobbing and Morgan in their repetitive play on key bat/habitat words: ‘Repeat until the poem staggers’. The antecedents are visible\, but the work is quirkily original\, and also funny especially when Hughes gets to the ‘Index’\, the ‘information’ bit. It isn’t always clear who is speaking/listening and to whom in this work of shifty pronouns and thus the tentative\, playful and mysterious air of the project is sustained throughout this speculative text.” \n\n\n\nHarriet Tarlo \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBriony will be joined by guest readers Sarah Westcott\, Robin Boothroyd\, and Redell Olsen. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but we ask that you RSVP below.  \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...
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: REMEMBERING WOMEN by Christine Lehnen
DESCRIPTION:Women do have a history of their own. All we need to do is remember it. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Dr Christine Lehnen to Housmans to discuss her illuminating new investigation\, Remembering Women\, that looks back at our collective memory to explore the myriad ways that women in the past have enjoyed a more egalitarian life \n\n\n\nDue to advances in bioarchaeological methods\, scientists have discovered that one out of three women in Ancient Scythia was an active warrior buried with her weapons. Far from being confined to their homes\, these women rode out to hunt\, travelled to distance places\, or used weapons to fend off their enemies. These warriors were no exceptions to the rule\, with women enjoying a significantly higher degree of equality than their Greek contemporaries. \n\n\n\nRemembering Women argues that there is a historical precedent for a fairer society. From reappraisals of well-known objects such as the earliest human bone calendars from the Stone Age to revelatory findings of innovative bioarcheological methods used on human remains from Ancient Scythia\, evidence is accumulating that there were places in the past where all women were allowed to thrive. \n\n\n\nInterweaving new findings from archaeology with the stories of her mother and grandmothers\, as well as her everyday experiences as a woman living today\, Lehnen explores our collective memory of women and argues that it needs to change if we are to create an egalitarian society. Remembering Women follows the traces left in the material\, literary\, and archaeological record by our foremothers\, and their heirlooms\, artwork and stories\, to take a fresh look at our life in the present. \n\n\n\nChristine will be joined in conversation by the writer and wild-swimmer Emma Simpson\, author of Breaking Waves. They will be in conversation for around 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by a Q&A.  \n\n\n\nOur Speakers:  \n\n\n\nCHRISTINE LEHNEN is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. She is a regular contributor on feminism\, culture\, history\, archaeology and public memoryfor outlets such as Aeon\, Psyche\, The Wire\, Antigone\, New Lines\, Magazine\, and Deutsche Welle. \n\n\n\nEMMA SIMPSON is a wild swimmer and writer specialising in narrative non-fiction. Having spent a couple of decades being distracted by a career as an air traffic controller and experiencing two life-wrenching events\, she rediscovered her pen and passion for storytelling at the same time as discovering how transformational cold-water swimming was for hert health\, wellbeing\, and sense of connection with the world. She explores these themes in her compelling\, moving book Breaking Waves.   \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE: Our website has been malfunctioning and we are currently unable to sell tickets through it. For the time being events will be free but please RSVP using the link below. Please only RSVP if you are certain to come to the event\, as we need to keep a cap on the volume of attendees for health and safety reasons.  \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...
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