Events
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POETRY READING: ELLEN RENTON LAUNCHES ‘YOU AND YOURS’
FeaturedJoin us for an evening of poetry to mark the launch of Ellen Renton's new pamphlet. You and Yours: Swinging across timelines and from the mundane to the surreal, You and Yours is a study in grief: how it exists beyond seismic losses in the stories we inherit, in shifting friendships, and in uncertain landscapes. […]
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Circadian Radio
FeaturedCircadian Radio is a night of performances by poets and writers ★ The night features performances by: Hesse K, Francis Jones, Sara Mostafa, Oisín Roberts, Jordan Minga, Phoebe Eccles, Maya Uppal, Will Aghoghogbe and open mic slots ★ During the evening, the performances are offered in solidarity with our dear friend, a writer who is […]
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POETRY SERIES: JOEY FRANCES
FeaturedFor our next poetry evening we welcome to London (the really very special poet) Joey Frances, for the London launch of his new chapbook, many beautiful acquaintances. Joining him we welcome back Imogen Cassels, Robert Kiely and Danny Hayward. OUR POETS: Biography: Joey Frances is a poet, musician, poetry organiser & teacher based in Manchester. […]
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[CANCELLED] ‘FLAMBOYANCE’ WITH JACK PARLETT IN CONVERSATION WITH PETER SCALPELLO
We are sorry to announce that this event has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances - all existing ticketholders will be contacted JACK PARLETT AND CELEBRATED POET PETER SCALPELLO DISCUSS 'FLAMBOYANCE' AND HOW IT IGNITES EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES, FROM ART AND ENTERTAINMENT TO RITUAL AND PROTEST. Flamboyance is Jack Parlett's follow up to […]
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SOLD OUT! HOUSMANS READING SERIES: Robert Glück
FeaturedPLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. The waiting list for this event is now also full. Housmans are beyond honoured, and slightly delightedly flabbergasted, to welcome the legendary writer Robert Glück to the shop for a reading. Robert, or Bob, is one of the most important writers working in the world today, in a […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: MILKING MOTHER EARTH: Fragments of an Investigation by Kaisa Saarinen
FeaturedCome and celebrate the first pamphlet from Gauze Bonnet Press! This pamphlet is a free-wheeling interdisciplinary exploration of rubber, taking readers from Bangkok fetish bars to smallholder plantations in Vietnam, looking through history from European colonisation of the homelands of latex to Victorian British moral panics about sex toys made from the material. Kaisa interweaves […]
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HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES: VERITY SPOTT
* The morning approaches. It engulfs everything, filling the precincts and flooding the valley with sound. The sky and the air seem to be speaking, reporting every moment. The hearts are lit up and flee. One night, I rose, and retreated into the dream. A vehicle welcomed the cold, and quietly rose. Inside the dream […]
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Book Launch: Liquid Reflections with Liliane Lijn
FeaturedWe are profoundly honored to be hosting the paperback launch for a memoir by one the world's greatest living artists, the sculptor Liliane Lijn, who will be joined in conversation by leading art writer Jennifer Higgie. Photo credit: Clay Perry Liliane Lijn is an artist who needs little introduction. Her stirring, often ostentatious and always […]
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PANEL: Noisy Business: Thought Daughters
What's Noisy Business? The brainchild of best friends and frequent chatty patties, Erène Bennett and Haaniyah Awale Angus, Noisy Business is a bimonthly roundtable series born out of our desire to bring the digital world offline. We don’t think that Noisy alone can fix the gaping issues within cultural commentary, but we do believe that […]
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Housmans Poetry Series: Jay Gao
FeaturedFor our next poetry evening we welcome to London the marvellously talented Jay Gao! He will be launching his mysterious, stirring new collection, 'The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in your ear, Thriving Slumber', published by Carcanet. Joining him we welcome a whole host of incredible poets: Dom Hale, Alycia Pirmohamed, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, […]
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SOLD OUT! ‘The Rulers:Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud’ by Cecilia Rikap
Featuredplease not this event is now sold out. It will be recorded and uploaded onto our youtube channel in the coming days. Capitalism’s rulers are not abstract entities or shadowy operators. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are the cloud hegemons that subsume the world through the exercise of their intellectual monopolies. Giants like Disney, McDonalds, Nike […]
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WILD FOLKLORE AND UNRULY WOMEN
FeaturedElizabeth Sulis Kim and Brigid Lowe in conversation The bear deities, Artio and Artaius, who’ll rise from sleep; the salmon of wisdom who gifts understanding of the universe’s past, present and future; the Lion Man carved 40,000 years ago. Three determined women plot against an ambitious sorcerer, they are queen Goewin, the reclusive sorceress Arianrhod, […]
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SOLD OUT! Zack Polanski: Green Socialist? A conversation with Russell Warfield SOLD OUT!
FeaturedPLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL SHOP@HOUSMANS.COM Join us for a friendly, stimulating debate Russell Warfield and Jonas Patrick Marvin. They ask: is Zack Polanski, and the Green Party, the future of the British Left? To help celebrate the launch […]
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POETRY READING: ‘AND SUDDENLY INTO NOTHING’ by Suzanne Doppelt (translated by Cole Swensen.)
Featuring readings from Laynie Browne, Ágnes Lehóczky, Cole Swensen & Suzanne Doppelt THIS IS A FREE EVENT, BUT PLEASE RSVP USING THE LINK BELOW:
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CHARITY SHOP WORLD! with Tansy E. Hoskins
FeaturedWE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME TANSY E. HOSKINS TO HOUMANS TO TALK ABOUT HER GROUNDBREAKING, MOVING NEW STUDY OF CHARITY SHOPS AND THE ROLES THEY PLAY IN MODERN CONSUMERIST CULTURE. ‘Charity shops are ubiquitous and invisible. They anchor the high street, employ thousands, process millions of items. Yet far more is written about AI than […]
£2.50 – £14.99
