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:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD 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:20240719T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T220000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20240514T151820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240719T134246Z UID:56984-1721415600-1721426400@housmans.com SUMMARY:POSTPONED DUE TO SPEAKER COMING DOWN WITH COVID! So Mayer and Kate Hardie in conversation. DESCRIPTION:SADLY THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO A SPEAKER COMING DOWN WITH COVID. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE SOON. THOSE WITH TICKETS WILL BE REIMBURSED. \n\n\n\nTHANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING!Housmans are delighted to hand the shop floor over to Kate Hardie and So Mayer who will be talking about about how they both use genre fiction to tell hard truths\, finding queer and feminist form for personal stories. We are also happy to be celebrating the paperback launch of Kate’s brilliant and haunting debut novel This Is Where We Live. Described in The Independent as ‘the most gripping account of motherhood since Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work’ This Is Where We Live is a masterful work of contemporary\, and subtle\, gothic fiction: A single mother wakes to blood in her mouth and flesh under her fingernails. A severed toe on the doorstep. A boy missing. But her child needs to get to school. There’s a food shop to be done. Parents evenings\, play dates and pasta for tea. Raising her child alone\, she’s done all she can to protect them. But what if she’s the thing they need protecting from the most? \n\n\n\nKate’s interlocuter for the evening will be the inimitable So Mayer\, whose most recent work is the acclaimed short story collection Truth or Dare: a queer quantum tour through what was\, what is\, what could have been and may yet still come to pass\, a collection that braids high-wire believe-it-or-not memoir with cutting-edge science fiction (or is it?) from alternate timelines that vibrate very close to ours. Truth or dare? Both\, always. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur speakers: \n\n\n\nKate Hardie is an actor and screenwriter\, her acting work includes The Krays\, Mona Lisa\, the award winning Safe and more recently National Treasure. She has written and directed for Channel Four The BFI and Sky and is due to direct her first feature. She has also taught screen writing and directing\, lectured and advised on representation and diversity within the film industry\, and written essays and articles for the Guardian and Dazed. She is mother to one and lives in London with her husband. This Is Where We Live is her debut novel. \n\n\n\nSo Mayer is a writer\, indie bookseller\, film curator\, and pencil stan. Their most recent books are A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula\, 2020)\, a short essay on queer art\, censorship and resistance\, and (Litmus\, 2018)\, a poetry sequence about interwar masculinity\, technology and hats\, and their BFI Film Classics on Orlando is forthcoming. Their work across genres and forms has been published internationally\, including in Roxane Gay’s anthology Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture\, in several Criterion DVDs\, and in Ignota Press’s Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry. Plus their poetry once appeared on hoardings in Dublin. With Adam Zmith\, they collaborated on Unreal Sex for Cipher\, an anthology of queer SFFH\, and on the BBC Sounds podcast The Film We Can’t See\, a tour through queer film history. \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 + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \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/book-talk-kate-hardie-in-conversation-with-so-mayer/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/preeti-insta-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240726T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240726T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20240709T153057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240715T112735Z UID:58299-1722020400-1722029400@housmans.com SUMMARY:MAGAZINE LAUNCH: Modern Poetry in Translation DESCRIPTION:Poetry has always been critical to dreams of liberation. In these perilous\, and calamitous times\, we’ll hear from our poets about their liberatory dreams and rage. An archive of anger\, dissidence\, and rebellion\, this issue features poets and translators speaking truth to power from Palestine\, Ivory Coast\, Iran\, Nepal\, Argentina\, China\, India and various other places and languages.  \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome our readers Leo Boix who has translated Liliana Ancalao from Argentina\, Cristina Viti  who has translated Batool Abu Akleen from Gaza and Yě Yě who has translated Jike Ayou from China’s Sichuan province.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Poets: \n\n\n\nLEO BOIX is a bilingual Latinx poet and translator born in Argentina who lives in the UK. His second poetry collection is forthcoming with Chatto & Windus (Vintage) in June 2025. \n\n\n\nCRISTINA VITI’S recent publications include Pasolini’s La rabbia (Tenement Press\, 2022) and An Anarchist Playbook (NoUP\, 2024)\, a series of texts co-translated in her workshop at King’s College. \n\n\n\nYĚ YĚ is the co-founder of Poetry Lab Shanghai\, and has had two collections of poetry published. Her words have appeared in the87press\, Pamenar Press\, Voice & Verse poetry magazine and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nALL PROCEEDS FROM TICKET SALES WILL BE DONATED TO THE RED CRESCENT \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.If you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, 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.Doors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30\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/magazine-launch-modern-poetry-in-translation/ CATEGORIES:Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MPT_No2-2024-FRONT.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240801T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240801T220000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20240710T121155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240801T144230Z UID:58329-1722538800-1722549600@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: SISSY ANARCHY presents ‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily’ by Misha Honcharenko\, in conversation with writer\, broadcaster and author of ‘This Ragged Grace’\, Octavia Bright. DESCRIPTION:Housmans is delighted to welcome SISSY ANARCHY and Misha Honcharenko to the shop\, to celebrate the publication release of Misha’s first novel\, ‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily.’ Writer\, broadcaster and author of ‘This Ragged Grace’\, Octavia Bright joins for a live conversation with Misha. \n\n\n\nAbout the book:Ukrainian artist and poet Misha Honcharenko is a refugee fleeing the war on Ukraine during the ongoing militant invasion of Russian forces. Whilst writing Trap Unfolds Me Greedily\, he is the primary caretaker of his mother who suffers with severe health complications and is hospitalised. As a young queer man\, Misha sets out on a path of discovery in the face of continued atrocities and displacement. His strength to brave such abject horrors makes its way into his prose\, which is relentless\, merciless\, leaving no reader resolved. \n\n\n\nWritten with a deep intelligence and a fierce willingness to understand that which terrorises\, Trap Unfolds Me Greedily follows Misha as he succumbs to new forms of grief whilst navigating the complexities of the immigration system\, his queerness\, war crimes\, violence\, and bereaving the slow passing of his closest relative and protector\, his mother. With each phrase\, he turns toward the atrocities to make sense of his life\, weaving stories that sear with intimate complexity. \n\n\n\nIt’s deeper than raw and unflinching\, Trap Unfolds Me Greedily hurts as it rustles the literary canon and binds you to the suffering with Misha’s original voice; where he invites you to be witness to such powerful forms of sorrow\, asking: what does it mean to build a life of one’s own from the rubble\, in the wake of what remains? \n\n\n\nBios: \n\n\n\nMisha Honcharenko is a Ukrainian queer artist and writer. He started his Instagram profile as a form of art diary\, combining weirdness in context of objects and landscapes\, exploring himself via photography for over a decade now. Skin of Nocturnal Apple is his first poetry collection published by Pilot Press in 2023. Trap Unfolds Me Greedily is his upcoming debut novel published by SISSY ANARCHY. @michgonch \n\n\n\nOctavia Bright is a writer and broadcaster. Her memoir\, This Ragged Grace\, is published by Canongate and is out in paperback now. @octavia.bright \n\n\n\nSISSY ANARCHY is a platform about trans queer anarchism by P Eldridge and Caitlin McLoughlin. We understand anarchism as an ideology\, that is\, a set of ideas\, motivations\, ethics\, values\, a structure or system of concepts that have a direct connection with action which influences political practices. We include the abstract and theoretical understandings of anarchism as a basis for free thinking and understanding from activists\, artists\, writers\, poets\, archivists\, and many more\, as a conducive way toward conceiving a model for social transformation; which converges through the lens of trans queer theory and artistic practices against anti-trans\, anti-queer\, capitalist\, colonial\, racist\, ableist\, and discrimination struggles across the world. We strive toward SISSY ANARCHY being a platform that has a political practice which seeks final objectives. @sissyanarchyhttps://sissyanarchy.substack.com/ \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/book-launch-sissy-anarchy-presents-trap-unfolds-me-greedily-by-misha-honcharenko-in-conversation-with-writer-broadcaster-and-author-of-this-ragged-grace-octavia/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Misha-Launch-Graphic-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240803T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240803T220000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20240710T124802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T134059Z UID:58337-1722711600-1722722400@housmans.com SUMMARY:the87press presents HUMMINGBIRDS 2.0: a literary salon with Edgar Garcia\, John Wilkinson and Calliope Michail DESCRIPTION:Housmans are thrilled to be collaborating with the inimitable 87press to present Hummingbirds 2.0\, a literary salon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n The hummingbird is a surrealist motif that symbolises love and dialogue\, something which we wish to foster further within poetry and literature. Each salon event offers an intimate space for live poetry readings and discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHummingbirds 2.0 features Edgar Garcia\, John Wilkinson\, and Calliope Michail; discussion will be chaired by Azad Ashim Sharma. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books\, 2019)\, Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography\, Hieroglyphs\, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press\, 2020)\, and Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press\, 2022). He is associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Wilkinson’s most recent books are the poem clusters Wood Circle (The Last Books 2021) and Fugue State (Shearsman 2023). His absentee memoir Colours Nailed to the Mast was published by Shearsman in 2023. An emeritus professor in the Department of English\, University of Chicago\, he now lives in Cambridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCalliope Michail is a London based poet and translator. Poems\, collages\, watercolour erasures\, translations\, etc.\, have appeared in various publications including Snow Lit Rev\, Penteract Press\, The Hythe\, Datableed\, Pamenar Press\, Lumin and Prototype. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook Along Mosaic Roads (the87press\, 2018). She enjoys collaborating with other poets and artists\, often for performances at the European Poetry Festival and Camarade series. In the fall\, she will start working on a PhD on the poet Iliassa Sequin. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTickets are free\, but advanced booking is strongly recommended. \n\n\n\nTickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the87press-housmans-bookshop-present-hummingbirds-20-a-literary-salon-tickets-932354335917?aff=oddtdtcreator \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/the87press-presents-hummingbirds-2-0-a-literary-salon-with-edgar-garcia-john-wilkinson-and-calliope-michail/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image0.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240809T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240809T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20240706T120202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240806T125235Z UID:58220-1723230000-1723239000@housmans.com SUMMARY:GRIEF AND GOODNESS: A Conversation between Camille Sapara Barton and Sanah Ahsan DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to be handing the floor over to two wonderful\, warm and alert writers. Having each recently published books that address similar themes\, Sanah Ahsan and Camille Sapara Barton will be joined in a conversation touching on topics of grief\, sorrow\, hope and community. This is promising to be a moving\, powerful evening and we are extremely excited. There will be readings\, conversation and a Q&A\, followed by an open mic session. Advanced booking recommended. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOKS: \n\n\n\nSanah and Camille will be in conversation exploring the relationship between goodness and grief – two central themes of their books. They will delve into the wild mysteries of grief tending and embracing uncomfortable emotions as a method to refuse the tyrannies of positivity and productivity culture. They will examine the role of whiteness and dogma in constructing our ideas of goodness. Troubling the binaries of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in queer activist spaces\, these writers emphasise the duty of repair\, relinquishing righteousness and community responsibility in tending to relational fractures.  \n\n\n\nFinally\, this event will dance in the gulfs between the publicly professed politics\, and what is lived privately\, inviting us all to grieve together in the messy in-between.” \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 + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, 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 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \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\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\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/grief-and-goodness-a-conversation-between-camille-sapara-barton-and-sanah-ahsan/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/preeti-insta.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240824T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240824T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20240803T131849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240809T130946Z UID:59053-1724526000-1724535000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Kaisa Saarinen: 'Maitonaut' DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to be welcoming the Finnish poet Kaisa Saarinen\, and a host of special guest readers\, to the shop to lift-off her new hybrid collection of poetry and fiction Maitonaut (after the Finnish word for milk). Published by new_sinews editions\, a new independent press edited by Steve Barbaro in Chicago.  \n\n\n\nThere is escapism\, yes — but then there is transcendence. And the more MAITONAUT self-reveals the more we see hints of full blown eternity hidden within the blur of modern everydayness. Mixing poems and fiction and narrators with the fluidity of water becoming ice then vapor\, Kaisa Saarinen’s second collection self-escapes somehow in the midst of its very self-materialization. \n\n\n\nKaisa’s performance of Maitonaut fragments will be accompanied by guest readings from JD Howse\, Michael Kabasele & Bart Seng Wen Long.Our Readers: \n\n\n\nKaisa Saarinen is a former feral farmgirl currently based in London. She has previously published one collection of poetry\, fiction & photography (Voideuse\, Feral Dove 2022) and one novel (Weather Underwater\, Bellows Press 2023). JD Howse was born in Lancashire and raised in London. He has a BA and MA in English and Creative Writing from Royal Holloway\, University of London and works in Print Production. He works across poetry\, prose\, collage\, and film\, and his work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals. His poetry collections include Just Meat Not God\, Noises Again\, and This is a Dagger\, and his debut novel Distraction! is forthcoming. \n\n\n\nMichael Kabasele is a poet based in London. She writes poetry absolutely everywhere\, in locations including (but not limited to): at tables in pubs\, locked in the bathrooms of public areas\, by rivers\, by the sea\, on national rail trains\, on the Tube\, and even in her bedroom (sometimes). She writes poetry about absolutely everything— sometimes earnest\, sometimes gross\, sometimes sexy\, but always quite odd. Michael is a weird little girl\, and always has been. Above all\, though\, Michael is a poet. \n\n\n\nBart Seng Wen Long is an artist-filmmaker and independent curator. His practice involves moving images\, photography and performance\, and explores the political economy of desire through processes of fetishisation. His short story Queer Cinema was published in excerpt by Sticky Fingers. Bart is currently working on a long form research-based art project about rubber in Southeast Asia.  \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 + event 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 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30Feel free to Bring Your Own Bottle! \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/book-launch-kaisa-saarinen-maitonaut/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/MaitonautCover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20240830T151115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T142655Z UID:59785-1726858800-1726867800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Resisting Mediocrity: Remaking the University DESCRIPTION:It’s not easy being made redundant. It’s an act of violent separation. Over the past decade\, thousands of lecturers and researchers have experienced this attack on their income\, autonomy and dignity; thousands more\, at around 70 universities\, are currently at risk of losing their jobs. Universities are in crisis – and 40% of institutions are projected to be in financial deficit this year.  \n\n\n\nUniversity bosses lack the vision necessary to do anything but mimic their competitors. The new Labour government\, like its Tory predecessor\, is sanguine about job cuts\, course closures and even university bankruptcies. The leadership of the University and College Union seems impotent in the face of the onslaught\, happy to embrace a mediocre and exploitative system of higher education.  \n\n\n\nEven as many alternative spaces of accessible learning\, such as trade unions\, have faced huge challenges\, every year sees fresh attempts at political education. In reading groups\, community art projects\, trade unions\, social centres\, and religious spaces\, people continue to engage in collective self-education. \n\n\n\nThis event will explore the contours of the crisis in universities\, and consider possible routes out of the mess made by neoliberal management. We will ask\, what would education look like without the profit motive? How can we resist the university’s relentless mediocrity in order to build something better\, whether on campus or beyond? \n\n\n\nOUR PANEL \n\n\n\nSita Balani is a UCU branch committee member at Queen Mary University of London. She will talk about political education\, including Study and Struggle\, a course/reading list designed to be used both inside and outside of the university. \n\n\n\nNicholas Beuret is a member of inCommons\, a collective project which is bringing together scholars\, activists and organisers to offer residential courses on commoning\, free to students and outside of the university. \n\n\n\nZara Dinnen is branch co-chair at Queen Mary University of London UCU\, where she has been involved in political education in meetings\, pickets and beyond. She is co-author of the essay “How to Stop a University”. \n\n\n\nBecca Harrison contributes to UCU committees (OU branch\, national exec\, higher education\, equalities) and organises against institutional and gender-based violences. She is the author of ‘Fuck the Canon\,’ which calls for a remaking of film and media studies\, and is a contributor in Al Jazeera’s ‘Degrees of Abuse’ series. \n\n\n\nDavid Harvie was a UCU organiser at University of Leicester until being made redundant – part of an attack on trade union organisation – in 2021. Now a deprofessionalised intellectual\, he’s co-author of Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities (2024) and\, since June 2023\, has been UCU’s (national) honorary treasurer. \n\n\n\nRehana Zaman has been a UCU executive committee member at Goldsmiths since 2021\, most recently in the role of co-President. She is also an artist and filmmaker often engaging issues around labour and immigration through collective forms of practice. \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 + event 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 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\nFeel free to BYOB. \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/resisting-mediocrity-remaking-the-university/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Discussion group,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jhp6617ef4523e98-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240930T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240930T220000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20240827T145815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T101319Z UID:59671-1727722800-1727733600@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: NAT RAHA launches 'apparitions (nines)' DESCRIPTION:We are very\, very excited to be welcoming the legendary poet Nat Raha to Housmans for the official UK launch of her new book\, apparitions (nines). A vital figure in UK\, and wider Anglophone\, vanguardist poetry for many years Raha’s newest experiment in lyric writing promises to be characteristically invigorating. \n\n\n\nReading alongside Nat we’ll have fabulous poetry from Mendoza\, Christine Kirubi\, Susannah Slack\, Samuel Solomon abd Daniella Valz Gen. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \n\n\n\nInjecting the disruptive potential of collective action into the body of the poem\, Nat Raha’s invigorating experiment resuscitates Anglophone poetry. \n\n\n\nInjecting the disruptive potential of collective action into the body of the poem\, Nat Raha’s invigorating experiment resuscitates Anglophone poetry. Amidst the violence of capitalism and state and imperial power\, there is Nat Raha’s apparitions (nines) in its “charred golden minidress\,” ushering us into a space of grief and resistance\, the embodiment and intimacy of queer\, trans\, and diasporic Black and brown people. Written as a series of “niners\,” a poetic form consisting of nine nine-syllable lines\, apparitions (nines) is at once a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone sonnet\, as well as an ode to beauty\, collectivity\, and tenderness which emerges from\, and far surpasses\, constraint. \n\n\n\nOUR READERS: \n\n\n\nDr Nat Raha is a poet\, activist-scholar\, and Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her poetry is of an experimental queer lyric\, attending to hirstories of struggle and resistance to racial capitalism\, through de/re/materialising sound\, form and syntax\, on the page and in performance. \n\n\n\nHer books of poetry include apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books\, 2024)\, of sirens\, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press\, 2018) and countersonnets (Contraband Books\, 2013). Her performance work\, epistolary (on carceral islands) was co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival\, Scotland and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts\, Galway\, Ireland\, 2023. \n\n\n\nWith Mijke van der Drift\, Nat is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press\, forthcoming 2024); their article ‘“They would plant the rose garden themselves”: Femmeness\, Complicity\, Solidarity’\, is due imminently in Social Text. \n\n\n\nMendoza\, aka Linus Slug: Insect Librarian\, is nonbinary neurodivergent poet and researcher. Their work evolves through a series of creative processes exploring the interaction between sound\, image and text. The purpose of poetry making is not to speak of their experiences in neurotypical terms\, but to describe how they navigate the world through their own embodied language in which familiar and unfamiliar terrain is disrupted. In doing so\, they are liberated from neurotypical modes of thinking allowing them to de-construct / (re)construct the ‘self’ through the language of insects.  It is an act of nonconformity. \n\n\n\nPublications include WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths\, collaboration with Peter Manson (Materials\, 2018); “the science of poetry : the poetry of science” Linus Slug / Peter Manson broadside (2015)\, and Type Specimen: An Observant Guide To Linus Slug (Contraband Books\, 2014). Mendoza’s poetry can be heard at the Archive of the Now \n\n\n\ndove Christine is an artist-poet based in London. Her debut collection WILDPLASSEN is out now with the87press. \n\n\n\nSuzanna Slack is the author of Gummi Zone (2023)\, White Spirit Videotelephony (2023)\, The Shedding (2022)\, Luxury Profile (2021)\, The Poor Children (2021)\, Is This It? (2019)\, all produced by VF Press\, and Happy Birthday Story (1998)\, by Atman.  The Poor Children was selected by Sophie Collins\, author of Small White Monkeys\, as a White Review 2022 Book of the Year.  The chapter (Money) from The Poor Children is to be included in a forthcoming book by Kris Dittel and Aneta Rostkowska as part of their ongoing Unruly Kinships project.  Suzanna writes memory trilogies\, who knows why\, and is producing another one while managing disabilities and care responsibilities. They are grateful for any help. \n\n\n\nSam Solomon lives in Brighton. He is author of Special Subcommittee (Commune Editions\, 2017)\, Lyric Pedagogy and Marxist-Feminism: Social Reproduction and the Institutions of Poetry (Bloomsbury\, 2019)\, and co-translator from the Yiddish of The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin (Tebot Bach\, 2014). He is currently at work on a literary labour history of queer typesetting and has recently completed a second collection of poems.   \n\n\n\nProcess-led\, Daniella Valz Gen’s work explores poetic experience through different forms of reading\, writing\, performing and making. They’re invested in a relational and responsive approach to land\, place\, and the other-than-human. Born in Peru and based in London\, Valz Gen’s work highlights the interstices between languages\, cultures and value systems as areas where potential new meanings can arise.  Valz Gen is the current writer in residence at Whitechapel Gallery. They are a co-director of the analogue film cooperative not/nowhere and a lecturer in Fine Art. Valz Gen’s work has been shown at Glasgow International\, SPILL Festival\, Aichi Triennale\, Gropius Bau among others. Subversive Economies\, their first poetry collection\, was published by PSS Press in 2018. Their writing has been featured in The Happy Hypocrite\, Map Magazine\, Salt\, and others. \n\n\n\nThis a free event. \n\n\n\nIf you have any further enquiries please Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30P.S. BYOB \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-reading-nat-raha-launches-apparitions-nines/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/9781643622392_FC-copy-533x800-1-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241019T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241019T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20240912T154300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240912T154304Z UID:60215-1729364400-1729373400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY by Benjamin Barson DESCRIPTION:This is gonna be a good one…Jazz! Theory! LIVE MUSIC!! \n\n\n\nHousmans will be hosting the wonderful scholar and musician Benjamin Barson for the official UK launch of his seminal new book\, Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons. \n\n\n\nA new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musicians. Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz\, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below\,” following the musicians as they built communes\, performed at Civil Rights rallies\, and participated in general strikes. Perhaps most importantly\, Barson locates the first emancipatory revolution in the Americas—Haiti—as a nexus for cultural and political change in nineteenth-century Louisiana. In dialogue with the work of recent historians who have inverted traditional histories of Latin American and Caribbean independence by centering the influence of Haitian activists abroad\, this work traces the impact of Haitian culture in New Orleans and its legacy in movements for liberation. \n\n\n\nBrassroots Democracy demonstrates how Black musicians infused participatory music practice with innovative forms of grassroots democracy. Late nineteenth-century Black brass bands and activists rehearsed these participatory models through collective performance that embodied the democratic ethos of Black Reconstruction. Termed “Brassroots Democracy\,” this fusion of political and musical spheres revolutionized both. Brassroots Democracy illuminates the Black Atlantic struggles that informed music-as-world-making from the Haitian Revolution through Reconstruction to the jazz revolution. The work theorizes the roots of the New Orleans brass band tradition in the social relations grown in maroon ecologies across the Americas. Their fruits contributed to the socio-sonic commons of the music we call jazz today. \n\n\n\nBenjamin will be in conversation with seasoned music broadcaster and writer John Stevenson and WILL ALSO be putting his theories into practice and performing live music for us. Advanced booking strongly recommended. This is going to be part book talk part concert\, as always\, please feel free to BYOB. \n\n\n\n“Musician\, composer\, scholar Benjamin Barson places the origins of the music dubbed ‘jazz’ in its rightful place: the Black Radical Tradition. Deftly braiding the political and cultural histories of revolutionary Haiti\, Black Reconstruction\, the laboring and creative lives of workers and peasants of the Black Atlantic\, African and Indigenous memory in song\, story\, and dance\, Black feminist blues\, and resistance to racial capitalism\, he weaves a powerful story of how Black revolt and brass bands transformed the port city of New Orleans into a portal to musical revolution. From now on\, Brassroots Democracy should be our starting point—both for understanding the past and imagining an emancipatory future.” – Robin D.G. Kelley \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS \n\n\n\nBenjamin Barson is a historian\, baritone saxophonist\, and political activist. He is an assistant professor of music at Bucknell University. His work has been published in Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party (2020)\, Routledge Handbook on Jazz and Gender (2021) and Routledge Guide to Ecosocialism (2021). \n\n\n\nJohn Stevenson is a seasoned communications professional\, encompassing freelance broadcasting and writing for diverse publications including The Guardian\, The Independent\, The Times\, Caribbean Beat and UK Jazz News. An alumnus of the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill) and King’s College London\, John has an abiding interest in arts and culture from around the world\, especially the music of Africa and the African diaspora. He currently co-produces and co-hosts the monthly music radio programme\, Nighthawks at the Virtual Diner\, on www.thethursdaynightshow.com \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 + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, 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 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \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/book-launch-brassroots-democracy-by-benjamin-barson/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241023T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241023T220000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20240926T152424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240926T152428Z UID:60799-1729710000-1729720800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: 'The Picture of Contented New Wealth' - Tariq Godard in conversation with Alex Niven DESCRIPTION:It’s spooky season! Help us celebrate All Hallows Eve by welcoming Tariq Godard to the shop for the (re)launch of his acclaimed work of political horror: The Picture of Contented New Wealth. One of the most important and era defining satires on Neoliberal Britain written during the dying days of New Labour\, and anticipating\, in it’s send-up of Thatcher’s premier\, the cultural brutality of the Austerity years\, The Picture of Contented New Wealth is as a vital and haunting now as it’s ever been. \n\n\n\nIn the brilliant red doom of a Hampshire sunset\, Brigit Conti can hear a voice behind her ears that is not her own. Bed-bound and complaining of a rare bone disease that no doctor can diagnose\, her husband fears that the house they have purchased is a portal through which an older\, more malign energy has passed\, possessing his wife and son. Through their successive deterioration\, his secular and agnostic world-view undergoes a metamorphosis\, drawing him to a strange man from the hills: the Rector\, their unlikely saviour. \n\n\n\nOr are he and his family merely victims of their own self-serving yuppie way of life? \n\n\n\nThe Picture of Contented New Wealth is a gothic tragedy set in the 1980s\, bringing proper characterization and a literary sensibility to the traditional horror story. Its mix of generic elements and mystical realism deal with the irreducibility of evil and its successful normalization in to our daily and dominant reality. \n\n\n\nTARIQ GODDARD is the author of seven novels including his 2002 debut\, the Whitbread (latterly Costa) Prize shortlisted ‘Homage to a Firing Squad’ & 2017’s ‘Nature and Necessity’. He has been nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize\, & the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize & has co-edited two collections of essays\, ‘The Repeater Book of the Occult’ & ‘The Repeater Book of Heroism’. His last book ‘High John the Conqueror’ was published by Repeater Books in 2022. \n\n\n\nTariq will be joined in conversation with ALEX NIVEN. Alex Niven comes from the north-east of England. He writes regularly for the Guardian\, Tribune and New Statesman\, and has also contributed to publications including the New York Times\, the Independent\, Pitchfork\, The Face and VICE. He is the author of New Model Island (Repeater\, 2019)\, and The North Will Rise Again (Bloomsbury). He is currently Lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University\, he helped to start the radical publisher Repeater Books in 2014. \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 + event 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 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30. \n\n\n\nPLEASE FEEL FREE TO BYOB \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/book-launch-the-picture-of-contented-new-wealth-tariq-godard-in-conversation-with-alex-niven/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/61GhOjBYsgL._SL1262_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241206T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20241023T151934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T171315Z UID:61475-1733511600-1733518800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: 'Cities Made Differently' by DAVID GRAEBER & NIKA DUBROVSKY DESCRIPTION:We are honored to be welcoming Nika Dubrovsky to Housmans on December 6th to celebrate the publication of a marvelous new text\, co-written with the late David Graeber\, called Cities Made Differently. Joining Nika in conversation will the inimitable organiser and writer James Schneider. \n\n\n\nFull of playful graphics\, provocative questions\, and curious facts\, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently. \n\n\n\nWhat makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky\, the late anthropologist David Graeber\, and Nika’s then four-year-old son\, this delightful and provocative book Cities Made Differently opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology\, literature\, play\, and drawing\, the book is essentially a visual essay that asks us to reconsider our ideas about cities and the people who inhabit them. Drawing us into a world of history and myth\, science and imagination\, Graeber and Dubrovsky invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit—because we can\, and nothing is too strange or too wonderful to be true. \n\n\n\nWith inspired pictures and prompts\, Cities Made Differently asks what a city is\, or could be\, or once was. Sleeping at the bottom of the ocean? Buried in lava? What were those cities of long ago\, and what will the cities of the future be? They might be virtual\, ruled by AI\, or islands of beautiful architecture afloat in seas of greenery. They might be utopian places of refuge or refugee camps as far as the eye can see. On land\, underground or aloft\, excavated or imagined\, cities\, this book tells us in provocative and funny ways\, can be anything we want them to be—and what we want them to be can tell us something about who we are\, what it is to be human\, and what’s possible when we make way for wonder. \n\n\n\nPlease feel free to bring your own drinks. We look forward to seeing you and contemplating together what a city is\, and what it could be\, and honoring the memory of our lost and much loved comrade David. \n\n\n\nAdvanced booking strongly recommended. \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 + event 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 7pm\, event starts circa 7:15. \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/book-launch-cities-made-differently-by-david-graeber-nika-dubrovsky/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/91voyX7S6L._SL1500_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250212T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250212T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250113T110959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T175101Z UID:63617-1739386800-1739394000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Celebrating David Graeber DESCRIPTION:On February 12\, 2025 — his birthday — we will be celebrating the life and thought of the much missed David Graeber. Joining us will be David’s friend\, the writer\, activist\, and organizer James Schneider and the philosopher Sophie Scott Brown\, who has recently written a new foreword for the 20th-anniversary reissue of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Joining us from New York will be David’s wife and long term collaborator\, Nika Dubrovsky. James\, Sophie and Nika will discuss David’s life and work\, his principals of anarchism and anthropology\, before we open things up for a wider conversation with our audiences in London and New York. \n\n\n\nThis a free event. There is limited capacity in the shop so please RSVP below to ensure attendance. If your plans change and you are unable to attend please email us at shop@housmans.com so your space can be made available to someone else. \n\n\n\nThis event is a celebration and in the spirit of that you are free to byob. A small amount of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be available at Housmans too. \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/celebrating-david-graeber/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/David-Graeber-009-1.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250214T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250214T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250113T133012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T173230Z UID:63630-1739559600-1739565000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Housmans x London Bookshop Crawl: Ellen Jones launches OUTRAGE DESCRIPTION:Housmans and the London Bookshop Crawl are delighted to welcome Ellen Jones to King’s Cross to celebrate the launch of OUTRAGE: Why The Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won And What We Can Do About It\, published by Bluebird Pan Macmillan. \n\n\n\nAlready named a Foyles Top 10 Recommended Read for 2025\, this groundbreaking and essential book sheds light on the ongoing challenges faced by LGBTQ+ people worldwide. Despite greater visibility in mainstream culture\, LGBTQ+ communities continue to encounter unacceptable levels of prejudice and danger—from rising homophobic and transphobic violence to the rollback of rights across the globe. In Outrage\, author and activist Ellen Jones explores these issues in depth\, examining their impact across education\, sports\, religion\, marriage\, mental health\, and more. \n\n\n\nIn searing prose\, punctuated with personal accounts from LGBTQ+ people from across the globe\, Jones sets out not only the issues but also practical actions\, both big and small\, that all of us can take to help create a more equal society. What’s more\, she shines a spotlight on the amazing individuals already working hard to change things. \n\n\n\nWhether you are a member of the LGBTQ+ community\, an ally\, or simply care about human rights and equality\, Outrage is essential\, and illuminating\, reading. \n\n\n\nJoining Ellen in conversation will be Jodie Lancet-Grant\, Editor and Associate Publisher at Pan Macmillan imprint Bluebird and the author of LGBTQ+-inclusive picture books published by Oxford University Press. Her book The Pirate Mums made history when it became the first book featuring a two-mum family to be read as a Cbeebies Bedtime Story\, by Sue Perkins. \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 + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, 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\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/housmans-x-london-bookshop-crawl-ellen-jones-launces-outrage/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/OUTRAGE_Postcard_Back.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250220T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250220T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250113T160729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250218T180741Z UID:63669-1740078000-1740083400@housmans.com SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Book Launch: MINING MEN by Emily Webber DESCRIPTION:WE APOLOGISE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES – IF YOU BOOKED A TICKET YOU WILL BE CONTACTED SHORTLY\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe are thrilled to be welcoming Emily P. Webber to the shop to launch her facinating\, and often deeply moving story of the last generation of British miners; told through the lives of the men who carved out their identities at the coalface. This is the story of the last generation of British miners: fathers and sons\, brothers and comrades\, big hitters and broken men\, strikers and scabs. Men for whom the masculine world of the pit was all they had ever known\, who reluctantly emerged into the daylight for the final time\, and others who were happier to consign the dust and darkness to the past. \n\n\n\nIt reveals the emotional impact of pit closures and what happened next; former miners who became factory workers; detectives; driving instructors; counsellors; the local mayor; one who even ended up working on Fleet Street. Featuring accounts from Ayrshire to the South Wales Valleys\, from the ‘People’s Republic of South Yorkshire’\, to the ‘Sunshine Corner Coalfields’ of East Kent\, each chapter offers a different perspective of the industry. For some of these men\, it is their first time opening up about the realities of life underground. \n\n\n\nBritain’s last deep coal mine closed in 2015\, yet just fifty years ago the mining industry was a juggernaut\, employing over 250\,000 workers. Combining new personal interviews with extensive archival research\, Emily P. Webber illuminates the extraordinary history of the industry once considered the backbone of Britain. \n\n\n\nBy situating the miners’ strike of 1984–85 in a longer history of the coalfields\, we can understand why miners and their families fought so hard against pit closures\, and their effect on these men and their communities once the pit wheels stopped turning. Vivid\, evocative\, and richly alive with minute detail\, Mining Men explores what the mining industry once meant to its workers and their communities\, and what Britain lost when it was gone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily P. Webber completed a PhD at the University of Reading & University of Exeter\, her research focused on masculinity and the British mining industry\, from nationalisation in 1947 to pit closures. \n\n\n\nBorn in South Yorkshire\, Emily has spoken to over a hundred former miners over the last five years\, collecting their memories of the industry and travelling to their communities. She was previously the Research Manager at the Imperial War Museum and contributed to several public-facing publications\, including as assistant curator for the award-winning Holocaust Exhibition. She is passionate about bringing history to wider audiences\, being recently selected as one of fifteen successful candidates for the Television Festival’s TV PhD talent scheme. Emily has previously had her work published in History Workshop\, Journal\, Contemporary British History and Twentieth Century History. \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 \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/book-launch-mining-men-by-emily-webber/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Mining-Men-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250315T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250315T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250303T155906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T154250Z UID:65264-1742065200-1742074200@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: Francis Jones launches STORM DRAIN DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce our first poetry reading of the year! We welcome the brilliant Francis Jones\, alongside a cohort of extraordinary young writers\, to launch their new chapbook from Veer2\, STORM DRAIN! Reading alongside Francis will be: Hesse K\, Shola von Reinhold\, Maya Uppal\, Robert Kiely. \n\n\n\nFrancis Jones is a poet and writer from Ireland. In 2024 their collaborative exhibition with Josie Perry The Thieves was exhibited at CCA Glasgow’s Intermedia Gallery\, with an accompanying anthology. In 2023 they wrote a poem-film in collaboration with Jack Hogan titled I Thought I Hated U\, Moon Snail which has been screened at the Whitney ISP final exhibition\, New York\, Colloquium Unpopular Culture at NYU\, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios\, Dublin and Starling\, Limerick throughout 2023 and 2024. Their debut pamphlet of poetry\, sacrificial fabric was published by SPAM in 2021. Their poetry is usually about love and sex\, class and work\, and relies on experiment and collaboration to be interesting and good. They now live in London. \n\n\n\nPraise for STORM DRAIN \n\n\n\n“With the vertiginous glitter of sunlit concrete and fluted\, addictive syntax\, Storm Drain is both a gutter and a fountain for the work-weary and atmospherically-curious dreamers and lovers of this world. The mice and rats of language ecstatically shirk from landlords and bosses in its fugitive waters\, and urchins seize the means of daytime as tokens against despair. These are poems dialled into both ancestral impossibility and the magic trick of torquing stolen time and waged nothings into lyric possibility. With lush and attuned dexterity\, Francis Jones can swerve from the harmonics of mud and skirting boards at the faint edge of perceptibility\, to a heart-in-the-throat directness that continually leaves me in awe.” \n\n\n\n–– Daisy LaFarge\, author of Lovebug\, Paul and Life Without Air \n\n\n\n“STORM DRAIN just goes and goes and goes and goes. Francis Jones has produced something unrelentingly generous\, unhesitatingly devotional –– to language\, to friendship\, to a furtive liberatory obstinance. This is an irascible lyric that refuses any thoughtlessness: despite or rather because of the blunt and sublimation of wage-work\, grief\, colonial reverberation. And at the centre? A wavering\, exacting body\, struck like a tuning fork … forever curious\, sounding. No fixity but the electric clarity of a million indisputable sensations! No surety but the eternal dignity of the working class! This book churns and chokes me. I gag on it\, I gag!” \n\n\n\n–– Hesse K\, author of Disquiet Drive \n\n\n\n“Francis Jones’ poetry captures the imperceptible visions and fleeting qualities of life—those slivers of time lost to the enormity of existence. To read Jones’ work is to inhabit the present\, that paradoxical space where faint beauty stands against the relentlessly bleaching force of capital. It evokes a remembrance of times to come\, a stance against the dazzling future and all of its potential horrors. Francis Jones wills me to keep existing\, to embody my own degeneracy\, vulgarity\, and fragility as acts of defiance against the many suffocating forces of neofascism. Pride grows within me\, echoing from my mind into the world. Each line\, each section of this beautiful collection\, offers grace—allowing us to feel blessed\, to feel loved\, and to hold hope for a beautiful\, liberated future.” \n\n\n\n–– Isaac Harris\, author of Ghetty Gospel \n\n\n\nThis a free event\, however\, money raised from ticket sales will be going to aid Political Prisoners from Palestine Action. If you would like to donate please see the ticket options below. Otherwise use the RSVP link below that to book a free ticket. \n\n\n\n Feel free to byob. \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/poetry-reading-francis-jones-launches-storm-drain/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/4-5_Francis-launch-poster_credit-Jack-Hogan_250220_purple-tint.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250326T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250326T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250204T125622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250204T125643Z UID:64335-1743015600-1743021000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Alt Reich by Nafeez Ahmed DESCRIPTION:An evening with Dr Nafeez Ahmed\, discussing his latest work of essential investigative journalism\, ALT REICH: The Network War To Destroy The WestFrom Within\n\n\n\nWhy does Elon Musk suddenly care about what’s happening in Britain? \n\n\n\nOver the last 100 years\, a shadowy network of American\, British and European extremistsinspired by Nazi eugenics has worked feverishly to shape an insidious new fascism\, masquerading under the banner of ‘freedom’. This is all revealed and expounded in Alt Reich\, the new\, vital\, book from award-winning journalist Dr Nafeez Ahmed who will be joining us to discuss the far-right’s rise to the mainstream and reveal why and how this network emerged\, who is behind it\, how it works\, and what it wants: to replace Western democracies with a global techno-authoritarian order that protects elite power in an age of planetary poly-crisis. \n\n\n\nAhmed explains Musk’s pivotal role in the network behind Trump’s return and the forming of a new ‘techno-utopian fascism’ that merges corporate tech power with the state. Musk and X are part of a broader network of billionaire oligarchs with questionable views on race\, tech platforms\, and far-right groups that are fed up with democracy as we know it. Russian President Vladimir Putin is an integral player in this network. And this has significant implications that the Western national security establishment ignores at everyone’s peril. \n\n\n\nDr Nafeez Ahmed is a renowned systems theorist\, change strategist and award-winninginvestigative journalist\, formerly of The Guardian and VICE\, who 15 years ago predicted themeteoric rise of the far-right across the West. A bestselling author of seven books including AUser’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization\, he is Byline Times’ Special Investigations Reporter AtLarge. His work has been officially used by the 9/11 Commission\, the London bombingscoroner’s inquest and cited in the Congressional Record\, as well as in the UK House ofCommons and House of Lords – including in multiple parliamentary select committee inquiries. \n\n\n\nAdvanced booking strongly recommended. Doors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \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\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/book-talk-alt-reich-by-nafeez-ahmed/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-17.53.52-600x914-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250405T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250405T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250113T163030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250113T163102Z UID:63694-1743879600-1743885000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: THE WAGES OF DREAM WORK: Class Composition & the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor DESCRIPTION:Housmans are absolutely delighted to be welcoming Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel to the shop to discuss their essential new book from Minor Compositions:The Wages of Dreamwork. Class Composition & the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor. \n\n\n\nSurviving as a cultural or artistic worker in the city has never been easy. Creative workers find themselves celebrated as engines of economic growth\, economic recovery and urban revitalization even as the conditions for our continued survival becomes more precarious. How can you make a living today in such a situation? That is\, how to hold together the demands of paying the rent and bills while managing all the tasks necessary to support one’s practice? How to manage the tensions between creating spaces for creativity and imagination while working through the constraints posed by economic conditions? \n\n\n\nIn a more traditional workplace it is generally easy to distinguish between those who planned and managed the labor process and those who were involved in its executions: between the managers and the managed. For creative workers these distinctions become increasingly hard to make. Today the passionate and self-motivated labor of the artisan increasingly becomes the model for a self-disciplining\, self-managed labor force that works harder\, longer\, and often for less pay precisely because of its attachment to some degree of personal fulfillment in forms of engaging work. And that ain’t no way to make a living\, having to struggle three times as hard for just to have a sense of engagement in meaningful work. \n\n\n\nThe Wages of Dreamworkinvestigates how cultural workers in the modern metropolis manage these competing tensions and demands. Does the cultural economy treat you as a tool? If so\, perhaps it’s time to rethink how to down tools in this metropolitan factory. \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 + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, 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\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/book-talk-the-wages-of-dream-work-class-composition-the-social-reproduction-of-cultural-labor/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/9781570274077.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250425T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250425T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250324T131854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250422T112547Z UID:65765-1745607600-1745614800@housmans.com SUMMARY:CANCELLED: the87press & Housmans Bookshop present: Hummingbirds 5.0\, a literary salon DESCRIPTION:SADLY THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. \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/the87press-housmans-bookshop-present-hummingbirds-5-0-a-literary-salon/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_2439.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250426T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250426T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250402T150143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250416T141350Z UID:65994-1745694000-1745701200@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: KYLE LOVELL & ALEX MARSH DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH DESCRIPTION:WE ARE BACK with another absolutely stellar poetry reading. Our friends over at The Poet’s Hardship Fund have been busy with one of their fantastic imprints Chaff. We will be launching two new titles: Kyle Lovell’s equisite God Bless All Petty Thieves and Alex Marsh’s ingenius Holding Pattern. \n\n\n\nAlongside Kyle and Alex we are blessed to have the amazing poets James Goodwin and Nell Osbourne \n\n\n\nPRE-ORDERS \n\n\n\nPre-orders can be placed here: \n\n\n\nhttps://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=TYJTXU5FBUP8CPlease include your name and address in the info box\, and the name of the book you would like. \n\n\n\nIt is £8 for one\, or £15 for both. All cash goes straight to the Poet’s Hardships Fund. \n\n\n\nAny profits from pamphlet sales on the evening will also be going to the Poet’s Hardship Fund. \n\n\n\nOUR POETS: \n\n\n\nKyle Lovell is the editor of Fathomsun Press. Their poems haveappeared in Blackbox Manifold\, Pamenar Press\, and LUDD GANG. They arethe author of Each Sharper Complication (legitimate snack\, 2020)\, Inthe Debt of Love (And False Fire\, 2021)\, and a co-author of theSonnets for Hooch series. Their latest pamphlet is ‘God Bless AllPetty Thieves’ (Chaff\, 2025). \n\n\n\nAlex Marsh is a poet from London. His previous books include Silo Bliss (SPAM Press)\, Ten Red Mornings (Death of Workers) and Two in the Wave (Distance No Object). He also co-runs Gong Farm and co-edits Ludd Gang\, a bi-monthly magazine set up to support the Poets’ Hardship Fund. \n\n\n\nNell Osborne published her first poetry pamphlet\, The Canine Redeemer Has Entered The Bungalow\, in 2021 with Just Not. Her most recent pamphlet Thank You For Everything\, is published by Monitor Books. Her debut novel is forthcoming with MOIST in September 2025. \n\n\n\nJames Goodwin‘s most recent book of poetry is Faux Ice\, published by Materials in 2022. He lives in London on a narrowboat. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but please RSVP below so we have an idea of numbers. \n\n\n\nPlease feel free to BYOB. \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-reading-kyle-lovell-alex-marsh-double-book-launch/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/tickets.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250429T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250429T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250324T150252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250408T160822Z UID:65778-1745953200-1745962200@housmans.com SUMMARY:ON TONY BENN: Andy Beckett and Melissa Benn in Conversation DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the long-awaited publication of Tony Benn’s political writings\, as well as the paperback edition of The Searchers\, we welcome Andy Beckett and Melissa Benn to the shop for a conversation on Benn\, his fellow Labour renegades and the future of the Labour left. \n\n\n\n\n\nWe are delighted to be welcoming Melissa Benn to the shop to the celebrate the centenary anthology of her father Tony Benn’s speeches\, writings and interviews. The book is a timely reminder of his political potency and the urgency of his agenda across a wide set of issues: the consequences of empire\, the need to embrace industrial change\, reform of the state machine and the management of politics. Joining Melissa we have Andy Beckett\, journalist for The Guardian\, The Economist and The London Review of Books. We also be launching the paperback edition of Andy’s brilliant book The Searchers: Five Rebels\, Their Dream of a Different Britain\, and Their Many Enemies\, a book about Benn and the Labour Left politicians he collaborated with and inspired. \n\n\n\nAdvanced booking strongly recommended. Doors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \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\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/on-tony-benn-andy-beckett-and-melissa-benn-in-conversation/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/preeti-insta-12-1024x1024-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250618T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250618T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250524T120501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250524T122448Z UID:66989-1750273200-1750278600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book talk: Drax of Drax Hall with Paul Lashmar DESCRIPTION:How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are delighted that celebrated journalist Paul Lashmar will be joining us for an evening at Housmans to discuss his latest book\, Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery. A brilliantly detailed and probing study of a how powerful British family came by their wealth through the worst kind of brutal\, dehumanising violence. \n\n\n\nWith a forward by David Olusoga\, this book\, which spans 400 years and 18 generations\, tells a story that has never been told. While all the British landed gentry profited from chattel slavery in the West Indies\, the Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of Dorset pioneered it. \n\n\n\nIt all started when James Drax\, one of the first settlers in Barbados in 1627\, effectively founded the British sugar industry. His descendants went on to write the book on how to run a slave plantation. For more than two hundred years\, the family enslaved up to 330 people at any time and became enormously rich. Today\, the bloodline is unbroken\, and former Tory MP Richard Drax heads the family from his vast Charborough Estate in Dorset. With physical assets worth at least £150m—not to mention the 621-acre sugar plantation in Barbados\, the Drax Hall Estate—he was the wealthiest landowner in the House of Commons. Unseated in 2024\, he remains a hero amongst hard-right culture warriors for his refusal to make any reparations for his family’s role in slavery. \n\n\n\nDrax of Drax Hall lifts the lid on the grotesque history of this family. Through enclosure at home and enslavement abroad\, their exploits expose the ugly realities of colonialism and empire—the legacies of which we have yet to fully confront today. \n\n\n\nPaul Lashmar is Reader in Journalism at City St George’s\, University of London. He has taken an interest in the history of slavery since he developed a Channel 4 series on Britain’s slave trade in 1999. He has been an investigative journalist in television and print\, and on the staff of The Observer\, Granada Television’s World in Action current affairs series and The Independent. He is the author\, co-author or co-editor of six books. He lives in Dorset. \n\n\n\nAdvanced Booking Strongly Recommended. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \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\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/book-talk-drax-of-drax-hall-with-paul-lashmar/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/5508.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250619T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250619T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250514T163010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250514T183327Z UID:66768-1750359600-1750366800@housmans.com 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... URL:https://housmans.com/event/poetry-reading-briony-hughes-launches-speculative-frequencies/ CATEGORIES:Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/tickets-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250709T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250709T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250617T130404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250708T125752Z UID:67905-1752087600-1752093000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: YOUR LIFE IS NOT A (FUCKING) STORY with Simon Critchley DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to welcome Simon Critchley to the shop to discuss a new volume of essays\, ‘Your Life Is Not a (Fucking) Story‘ published by everyday analysis. In this collection of his recent articles\, Critchley – one of the most important living philosophers – takes us through his reflections on death\, questions of doubt and reason\, the legacy of David Bowie\, the nature of fear and empathy in a broken society and a critique of narrative identity – among other things. Your Life Is Not a Story explores the contemporary world and its psychological impact on us\, offering us a way to see our situation different and resist its tricks and contrivances. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event. \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/book-talk-your-life-is-not-a-fucking-story-with-simon-critchley/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ea-coverconcepts-critchley_page_1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250729T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250729T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250617T130155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250621T151241Z UID:67943-1753815600-1753821000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: THREE REVOLUTIONS: Simon Hall in conversation with Owen Hatherley DESCRIPTION:Simon Hall and Owen Hatherley will be joining us to discuss Simon’s fascinating new book\, THREE REVOLUTIONS: Russia\, China\, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed The World. \n\n\n\nFrom the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917\, to Mao’s stunning victory in October 1949\, and Fidel’s triumphant arrival in Havana\, in January 1959\, the history of the twentieth century was transformed in dramatic and profound ways by the Russian\, Chinese\, and Cuban revolutions. \n\n\n\nIn Three Revolutions\, the stories of these epoch-defining events are told together for the first time. At the heart of each revolution was an epic journey: Lenin’s 1917 return to Russia from exile in Switzerland; Mao’s ‘Long March’ of 1934–35\, covering some 6\,000 miles across China; and Fidel Castro’s return to Cuba in 1956 following his exile in Mexico. Told in tandem with these are the corresponding journeys of three extraordinary journalists – John Reed\, Edgar Snow and Herbert L. Matthews – whose electric testimony from the frontlines of each revolution would make a decisive contribution to how these revolutions were understood in the wider world. \n\n\n\nHere\, in Simon Hall’s masterful retelling\, these six remarkable journeys are brought vividly to life. Featuring a stellar cast\, extraordinary drama and an epic sweep\, Three Revolutions raises fundamental questions about the nature of political power\, the limits of idealism and the role of the journalist – questions that remain of utmost urgency today. \n\n\n\nOur Speakers: \n\n\n\nSimon Hall is the Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds. He previously studied at Sheffield and Cambridge\, and held a Fox International Fellowship at Yale. His previous books include 1956: The World in Revolt and Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s. \n\n\n\nOwen Hatherley is the author of many books on aesthetics and politics\, including Landscapes of Communism\, Trans-Europe Express and Modern Buildings in Britain. His latest book\, The Alienation Effect explores how Central European Émigrés transformed Britain in the 20th century. He is a commissioning editor at Jacobin. \n\n\n\nAdvanced Booking Strongly Recommended. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45\, event starts 7:00. \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\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/book-launch-three-revolutions-simon-hall-in-conversation-with-owen-hatherley-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Three-Revolutions-54-533x815-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250917T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250917T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250807T161902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250807T161904Z UID:69142-1758135600-1758141000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: THE MERCY STEP: Marcia Hutchinson in conversation with Mel Pennant DESCRIPTION:Gosh this is an exciting one! Join us for a wonderful evening with two incredible authors from the Windrush generation: Marcia Hutchinson and Mel Pennant. The two will be discussing Marcia’s fantastic recent novel\, The Mercy Step. \n\n\n\nBradford\, December 1962. A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world\, torn from the warm embrace of her mother’s womb\, to a chaotic household that seems to have no place for her. Her siblings do not understand her\, her mother’s attention is given to the Church\, and the entire family lives at the whims of her father’s quick temper.  \n\n\n\nLeft to herself\, Mercy finds solace in books\, her imagination\, and the quiet comfort of her faithful toy\, Dolly. But escapism has its limits\, and as the grip of family\, faith and fear threatens to close in\, Mercy learns she must act if she wants a different future; one where she is seen\, heard\, and her family set free.  \n\n\n\nThe Mercy Step is a sharply-witted and tender portrait of a young girl’s quiet rebellion\, and her refusal to be broken.  \n\n\n\nMarcia and Mel will read from and discuss the book for around 45 minutes-1hr followed by a Q&A. Expect conversations around the Black British Experience\, women’s writing and Britain in the 60s! Hope to see you there. \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\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/book-talk-the-mercy-step-marcia-hutchinson-in-conversation-with-mel-pennant/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/717pYt1ZBTL._SL1500_-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251011T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251011T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20250917T160800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250917T161058Z UID:70424-1760209200-1760214600@housmans.com SUMMARY:ACTIVIST TALK: 'ALL HANDS ON DECK' with Jan Goodey DESCRIPTION:We welcome legendary activist Jan Goodey to the shop to help celebrate the launch of his essential new book All Hands On Deck: Climate Activism and the way ahead\, out now from PM Press. A member of Just Stop Oil\, and among those imprisoned for his climate actions\, Jan is a seasoned and courageous activist. For more than 30 years\, he has been on the front lines of direct-action environmentalism and anti-capitalism in the UK. Jan has helped shut down offensive companies and been part of successful protest camps to save Britain’s ancient woodlands. But\, as he argues in his new pamphlet\, it’s not enough. Climate breakdown continues unabated; the gap between haves and have-nots is growing. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event. Please book a free ticket below. You can also reserve a copy of the book\, or choose the ‘solidarity’ option to make a voluntary donation to Housmans. \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/activist-talk-all-hands-on-deck-with-jan-goodey/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Copy-of-Glasgow.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 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:20260406T044149 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:20260406T044149 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251103T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251103T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T044149 CREATED:20251015T150327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T150330Z UID:72483-1762196400-1762201800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: WE ARE STILL HERE: STUDENT VOICES FROM GAZA DESCRIPTION:Housmans are honored to be hosting the launch event for this courageous book. \n\n\n\n We Are Still Here is an anthology of raw\, unfiltered\, and courageous voices featuring short and long stories\, poems\, essays\, and testimonies written by students from Gaza’s universities\, edited by Prof. Zahid Pranjol and Dr. Jacob Norris published by Daraja Press. Throughout the evening we host readings from Gazan students\, both via video recording and live in the shop\, followed by an open discussion with the book’s editor Zahid Pranjol. \n\n\n\nAlongside the book\, we will be selling Palestinian food\, tote bags and stickers that support local Palestinian businesses in London. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event. Please RSVP below. \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/book-launch-we-are-still-here-student-voices-from-gaza/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image-5.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR