Literary Event
Events
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BOOK LAUNCH: The Mixed + Multiracial Guide To Wellbeing with Namalee Bolle
FeaturedJoin us for a celebratory evening of radical mixed + multiracial discussion! "What aaaaarrrrrrrrrreeeeeee you?!"If you just had that familiar sinking feeling, this book is for you. Do you point out how alienating and othering that question is? Stand your ground and explain that you don't have to justify your existence with a pie chart […]
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TALK: NO TO NUCLEAR! Linda Pentz Gunter in conversation with Jonathon Porritt
Featured‘Linda Pentz Gunter has done a great service in highlighting the nuclear chain reaction and exposing the huge human and environmental costs. We need this book for our environment and a peaceful world’ – Jeremy Corbyn We are delighted to welcome Linda Pentz Gunter to Housmans to discuss her new book No To Nuclear. Brilliantly […]
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BOOK TALK: Superweak: Thinking in the 21st Century: Laurent de Sutter in conversation with Alfie Bown
FeaturedUsing the stealth capacities of hermeneutic distrust as his weapon of choice, de Sutter’s writing breaks into unrecovered areas of subtle teachings, shedding light on philosophemes gleaned from Aristotle to punk-led attitude, biojewelry, and the historical buildup of authority billed to the triumph of reason in its many intrusive morphs.— Avital Ronell, New York University […]
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POETRY: Jazmine Linklater, Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar and more
FeaturedPlease join us for our second poetry night of the year. This time we celebrate Jazmine Linklater's immense and devastating new long poem 'Snagged on red thread' (published by Monitor). Reading alongside Jazmine we have Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Al Anderson, Harriet Rose and JD Howse. This is a free event, but please RSBP […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: PRIVATISING HUMANITY BY KATE BAYLIS
JOIN KATE BAYLIS AND ADRIENNE BULLER FOR AN ESSENTIAL CONVERSATON ON HOW BASIC HUMAN NEEDS BECOME FINANCIAL ASSETS. Privatising Humanity is a powerful exposé of how finance turns our basic human needs into assets. We have entered a new era of turbo-charged financial extraction. Having amassed huge reserves, global finance capital is seeking out fresh […]
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SOLD OUT: REVOLUTIONARY FORGIVENESS: D. K. RENTON in conversation with Barnaby Raine
FeaturedTHIS EVENT IT NOW SOLD OUT. TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL SHOP@HOUSMANS.COM Housmans are delighted to welcome the legendary theorist, thinker and lawyer D.K. Renton to launch what we believe may be one of the most original, and vital, works of left wing thought to appear in recent years. He will […]
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BOOK TALK: Adrift in the South by Xiao Hai
FeaturedWhen Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began fifteen years spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China's fast-growing southern cities. Adrift in the South is a memoir of life as a migrant labourer in the twenty-first […]
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MAGAZINE LAUNCH: WEEKEND
FeaturedCOME AND CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF A BOLD NEW POETRY MAGAZINE AT HOUSMANS. FEATURING LUKE ROBERTS, HARRIET ROSE AND OTHERS. This is a free event, please book your tickets below. Feel free to BYOB. :)
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DREAMS AND GHOSTS WITH DOMINIC PETTMAN & EVERYDAY ANALYSIS
FeaturedJoin us for a conversation between two of the most exciting theorists of the digital realm, Dominic Pettman and Alfie Bown We are delighted to welcome our friends Everyday Analysis back to Housmans for what promises to be another stimulating reflection on the agonies and aporias of contemporary culture. This time we have Dominic Pettman […]
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HOUSMANS READING SERIES: LUKE ROBERTS PRESENTS ‘BAD OMENS’
FeaturedPOET'S PROSE #2 For the next instalment of Poet's Prose sequence (a series of events celebrating cross-disciplinary efforts by radical anglophone poets experimenting outside of the traditional lyric form) we welcome to Housmans the inimitable Luke Roberts, who will be reading from his new book of essays, aphorisms, contemplations, Bad Omens. Drawn from a decade’s […]
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HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES: JD HOWSE
FeaturedIt starts with the Buggery Act of 1533. Or perhaps the arrest of Eleanor Rykener. Or perhaps the execution of James Pratt and John Smith. The truism goes that queer people have always been here, but for as long as there have been written records of us those records have dealt with our suppression, criminalisation, […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: MILKING MOTHER EARTH: Fragments of an Investigation by Kaisa Saarinen
FeaturedCome and celebrate the first pamphlet from Gauze Bonnet Press! This pamphlet is a free-wheeling interdisciplinary exploration of rubber, taking readers from Bangkok fetish bars to smallholder plantations in Vietnam, looking through history from European colonisation of the homelands of latex to Victorian British moral panics about sex toys made from the material. Kaisa interweaves […]
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CHARITY SHOP WORLD! with Tansy E. Hoskins
FeaturedWE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME TANSY E. HOSKINS TO HOUMANS TO TALK ABOUT HER GROUNDBREAKING, MOVING NEW STUDY OF CHARITY SHOPS AND THE ROLES THEY PLAY IN MODERN CONSUMERIST CULTURE. ‘Charity shops are ubiquitous and invisible. They anchor the high street, employ thousands, process millions of items. Yet far more is written about AI than […]
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POETRY SERIES: NELL PERRY
FeaturedJoin us for another evening of cutting edge, brilliant poetry. This time we will be launching Nell Perry's incredible new work of hybridised poetics His Splendid Tables, published by Runamok! His Splendid Tables is a collection of hybrid writing combining wayward translation and poetic essay to explore, variously, what is lost and what is gained […]
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ZINE LAUNCH: TRANNY CENTRAL
FeaturedJOIN US FOR FOR THE LAUNCH OF THIS INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF THE GAY LIBERATION FRONT'S TRANSSEXUAL, TRANSVESTITE AND DRAG QUEEN GROUP, FROM TGIRLSONFILM Come for the launch of the third bumper edition of "Tranny Central", with new archival goodies and newly commissioned articles. In Tranny Central, TGirlsonFilm summons the spirits of our radical trans-sisters of […]
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