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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210724 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:20240724T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240724T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210724 CREATED:20240622T123343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240622T135011Z UID:57994-1721847600-1721853000@housmans.com SUMMARY:AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch:'Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire' with Adam Greenfield DESCRIPTION:AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: ‘Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire’ with Adam Greenfield\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAutonomy Now present the launch of a new book from Verso\, an urgent and practical guide to community resilience in the face of climate catastrophe. In this book Adam Greenfield\, author of Radical Technologies\, recovers lessons from the Black Panther survival programs\, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece\, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava\, to show how practices of mutual care and local power can help shelter us from a future that often feels like it has no place for us or the values we cherish. \n\n\n\nReviews“Mixing clear-eyed\, unwavering analysis with deep compassion\, Lifehouse offers something much more sustaining than hope: traction”Jenny Odell\, author of Saving Time“When three emergencies — climate\, political and social – build together into the storm of our present we need to start thinking from the ground-up. In this we have no better guide than AG. Lifehouse constructs a much needed\, hands-on strategy for urban care. Read it and start planning.” Eyal Weizman\, author of Hollowland“A succinct\, unflinching assessment of the urgent conditions unfolding around us\, and a nuanced\, practical analysis of why and how we must take up immediate\, local\, collective direct action.”Dean Spade\, author of Mutual AidAbout the authorAdam Greenfield has spent the past quarter-century thinking and working at the intersection of technology\, design and politics with everyday life. Selected in 2013 as Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities centre of the London School of Economics\, he previously taught in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and the Urban Design program of the Bartlett\, University College London. His books include Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing\, Urban Computing and Its Discontents\, and the bestsellers Against the Smart City and Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEntry to the event is free but please register via RSVP ticket link below\, or optional £5 solidarity ticket \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/autonomy-now-book-launchlifehouse-taking-care-of-ourselves-in-a-world-on-fire-with-adam-greenfield/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/lifehouse.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210724 CREATED:20240710T115525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T164336Z UID:58322-1721934000-1721944800@housmans.com SUMMARY:SISSY ANARCHY presents the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube DESCRIPTION:SISSY ANARCHY cranks up the volume on confessional literature with a blistering new journal series. Brace yourself for genre-bending writers who burrow into the recesses of their psyches\, dragging out the raw\, unsettling truths lurking beneath the surface. \n\n\n\nFor our first journal\, we present the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube\, an auto-essay journal that reflects on experiences of trans misogyny\, child sexual abuse\, sexual and gendered violence and the trauma this causes. \n\n\n\nTo be presented at Housmans Bookshop with special guest readers Fi Kube \, Hesse K.\, and Biogal\, alongside the release of a new special edition risograph poster bundle with artworks by Bug Shepherd-Barron\, Leomi Sadler\, and Jesse Glazzard.  \n\n\n\nAll proceeds made on the evening from the sale of posters will go to trans healthcare + you can use your posters at Trans Pride! \n\n\n\nABOUT SISSY ANARCHY \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. @sissyanarchy \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/sissy-anarchy-presents-the-release-of-knots-by-fi-kube/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/KNOTS_EVENT-GRAPHIC-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240726T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240726T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210724 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:20240731T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240731T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210724 CREATED:20240530T163403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T164415Z UID:57362-1722452400-1722457800@housmans.com SUMMARY:"Disaster Nationalism" Richard Seymour and Sivamohan Valluvan on the Downfall of Liberal Civilization DESCRIPTION:“Disaster Nationalism” Richard Seymour and Sivamohan Valluvan on the Downfall of Liberal Civilization\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe third and final conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism is with Richard Seymour previewing his forthcoming book ‘Disaster Nationalism’ (October 2024\, Verso). The rise of the new far-right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders like Donald Trump\, Jair Bolsonaro\, and Rodrigo Duterte\, the true peril lies elsewhere. They are but the political manifestations of a potent force – disaster nationalism. This mass cultural phenomenon\, propelled through the vast networks of social media and fueled by far-right influencers\, emerges from a reservoir of societal despair\, fear\, and isolation. \n\n\n\nAt its core\, disaster nationalism fixates on images of catastrophe – the ‘Great Replacement\,’ Satanic ‘cabals’ – as explanations for its discontent. It yearns for an ‘end of days\,’ a reckoning\, a ‘storm’ as the QAnon faithful call it\, to bring an end to its suffering. This yearning is only heightened by the relentless onslaught of real-world disasters – from economic recessions to global pandemics and ecological collapse. \n\n\n\nWithin this seething cauldron\, we witness not only the surge of far-right political movements but also the sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies\, from ‘lone wolf’ killers to terrifying pogroms. Should a new fascism emerge\, it will coalesce from these very elements. This is disaster nationalism. \n\n\n\nIn Disaster Nationalism\, Richard Seymour delves deep into this alarming phenomenon\, dissecting its roots\, its influencers\, and the threats it poses. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling\, this book offers a stark warning and a call to action. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization itself.PART OF THE RESISTING NATIONALISM SERIES \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/disaster-nationalism-richard-seymour-and-sivamohan-valluvan-on-the-downfall-of-liberal-civilization/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/disaser-tight.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240801T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240801T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210724 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:20260403T210724 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:20260403T210724 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:20260403T210724 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:20240830T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240830T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210724 CREATED:20240804T113424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T161102Z UID:59070-1725044400-1725053400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: EXAM NATION: Sammy Wright in conversation with Ed Vainker DESCRIPTION:Housmans look forward to welcoming teacher\, and former member of the Social Mobility Commission\, Sammy Wright. Sammy will be discussing his latest book Exam Nation: a first hand account of the struggles student and teachers face in the relentless pursuit of performance table ranking. \n\n\n\nIn Exam Nation\, Sammy asks the fundamental question; what is school really for? Current assessment infrastructure bases student merit and access to FE/HE almost entirely on pressurised performance. Sammy argues that exams function better as benchmarks for progress – like driving tests – than a definitive dictation on what doors open for whom. He asks: how best do we support those children who show an inclination towards vocational work\, and how should educators engage when education isn’t valued in the home? \n\n\n\nSammy interviews parents\, students and colleagues to get to the root\, digging into community\, complex developmental needs\, familial support structures and trauma (all possessing the ability to make or break a child’s performance). He isn’t anti-exams – recognising the true need for assessment – but believes schools are much more effective when focused on community integration\, fostering genuine engagement with subjects\, and preparing students for the realities of adulthood. Drawing upon twenty years of experience\, Exam Nation is hopeful as it is at times heart-breaking – a rallying cry for cross-sector critical evaluation. \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\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-sammy-wright-exam-nation/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/9781847927521-jacket-large.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240908T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240908T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210724 CREATED:20240823T131216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T160327Z UID:59601-1725822000-1725831000@housmans.com SUMMARY:An Evening with Calvin John Smiley DESCRIPTION:Housmans are extremely excited to welcome the inimitable scholar\, sociologist and criminologist Dr Calvin John Smiley to the shop to discuss his work. Calvin’s brilliant writing concerns prison abolition\, race\, inequality\, and social justice and these will be the primary themes of discussion on the evening. He will be focusing especially on his two most recent book\, Defund: conversations toward abolition and Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry\, Race and Abolition. \n\n\n\nCalvin will be joined by Dr Becka Hudson from Birkbeck’s School of Historical Studies. Her work uses history\, anthropology and criminology to look at the interaction between psychiatry and imprisonment. \n\n\n\nThe evening will consist of a discussion which will then be followed by an audience Q&A. \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 7:30P.S. 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/an-evening-with-calvin-john-smiley/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/preeti-insta-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210724 CREATED:20240816T122421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T120218Z UID:59414-1726686000-1726691400@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire’ with Matt Kennard DESCRIPTION:‘The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire’ with Matt Kennard (SOLD OUT)\n\n\n\n\n\nHousmans welcome back investigative journalist Matt Kennard to discuss the new edition of this vital and staggering book\, which exposes the dark nature of modern geopolitics and neo-imperialism. \n\n\n\nWhile working for the Financial Times\, Matt Kennard had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara\, Kennard spent four years gathering extraordinarily honest testimony from the horse’s mouth on how the global economic system works away from the convenient myths. It left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money\, and a reach much too close to home. \n\n\n\nOwing to the very nature of the Financial Times\, however\, Kennard was not able to publish these findings as part of his day job. Enter The Racket\, now in a fully updated second edition. This tell-all book\, reported from all corners of the world\, will transform everything you thought you knew about how the world works-and in whose interests. Kennard reports not only from across the United States\, but from the United Kingdom\, the Caribbean\, Latin America\, Africa\, and the Middle East. In doing so he provides startlingly clear and concrete evidence of unchecked\, high-level\, interrelated systems of exploitation all over the world. At the same time\, through encounters with high-profile opponents of the racket such as Thom Yorke\, Damon Albarn\, and Gael García Bernal\, Kennard offers a glimpse of a developing resistance\, which needs to win. \n\n\n\nNow more relevant than ever\, this 2nd edition contains a new preface by the author and a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. \n\n\n\nThere will be a reading from the book and discussion\, followed by a Q&A.Matt Kennard is co-founder\, and chief investigator\, at Declassified UK\, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow and then director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London\, UK. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington\, DC\, New York\, and London. He is the author of several acclaimed books including Irregular Army (2012)\, and co-author (with Claire Provost) of Silent Coup (2023). \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.Housmans cannot sell alcohol but please feel free to bring a bottle! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSOLD OUT! There are no more tickets available for this event.\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/the-racket-a-rogue-reporter-vs-the-american-empire-with-matt-kennard-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/RACKET-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210724 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:20240925T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240925T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20240820T145257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T152555Z UID:59502-1727290800-1727298000@housmans.com SUMMARY:HUMMINGBIRDS 3.0: a literary salon DESCRIPTION:the87press & Housmans Bookshop present Hummingbirds 3.0: a literary salon with Karenjit Sandhu and Kiran Bath \n\n\n\nHummingbirds is a new literary salon series from the87press\, designed to celebrate poetry and place different poets in discussion. 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\nHummingbirds 3.0 brings together two writers from the Punjabi diaspora\, Karenjit Sandhu and Kiran Bath (making a special visit from the US). In celebration of Karenjit’s and Kiran’s debut collections of poetry\, this reading will celebrate diaspora as a space for feminist politics\, intersectionality\, performance on and off the page. Each poet will read and be in conversation\, chaired by director of the87press\, Azad Ashim Sharma. \n\n\n\nOUR READERS \n\n\n\nKiran Bath is a writer and lawyer based in New York. She has received fellowships\, residencies and support from Poets House\, the Vermont Studio Center\, Winter Tangerine and Brooklyn Poets. Kiran is a Kundiman fellow and a Tin House alumnus. Her work has been shortlisted for the Peach Gold in Poetry the Jake Adam York Prize\, longlisted for the Pamet River Prize and nominated for the Best of the Net. Kiran’s poems appear in wildness\, The Adroit Journal\, The Brooklyn Rail and other decorated journals. INSTRUCTIONS FOR BANNO is Kiran’s debut collection of poetry with Kelsey Street Press. \n\n\n\nIn her debut poetry collection\, Kiran Bath travels through the timelines and geographies of the women in her family to understand the inherited consequences of becoming a South Asian bride (banno). Threading stories of pre-partition matriarchs\, migrant mothers\, and first generation daughters\, she renders themes of subjugation\, domestic violence\, honor killings\, and infanticide alongside unrequited love\, sisterhood\, motherhood\, and devotion in cathartic form. The result is the set of instructions left for BANNO\, a diary that ruptures the institution of filial duty and embodies the tradition that survives it—an insistence for declaring our humanity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKarenjit Sandhu is a poet and artist. She is a Lecturer in Art at the Reading School of Art\, University of Reading. Her publications include Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive (Guillemot Press)\, young girls! (the87press) and Baby 19 (intergraphia books). Her work is featured in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry and The Blue Notebook: Journal for Artists’ Books. Her artists’ books have been collected by the Tate Archive (London) and exhibited at The Showroom (London) and Galerie éof (Paris). Sandhu’s performance work has led to collaborations with the Institute of Contemporary Arts\, Barbican\, Flat Time House and Christie’s (London)\, Arnolfini (Bristol) and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris). She is a member of the British Art Network and has written for exhibition catalogues on contemporary British\, European and South Asian art. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hummingbirds-30-a-literary-salon-with-karenjit-sandhu-and-kiran-bath-tickets-995099719047?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/hummingbirds-3-0-a-literary-salon/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image_2024-08-20_153418.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240930T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240930T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 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:20241001T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241001T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20240905T161203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T150258Z UID:59839-1727809200-1727818200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Women Without Children: Nicole Louie in conversation with Rose Diell DESCRIPTION:We are very happy to welcome Nicole Louie and Rose Diell to the shop to discuss their brilliant work. Nicole’s wonderful recent book Others Like Me is the story of fourteen women around the world\, from different walks of life\, who don’t have children. It’s also the story of why Nicole Louie had to find them and what they taught her. Part memoir\, part exploration of childlessness through candid conversations\, this book showcases the many ways in which people find fulfilment outside of parenthood. And because the social expectation to procreate weighs the most on women\, Louie focuses solely on them\, their experiences and how they flourish outside of motherhood. In doing so\, she upends the stereotypes that diminish women who are not mothers and offers reassurance and companionship on a path less known. \n\n\n\nRose Diell’s explores similar themes through the lens of surreal fiction in wonderful novel\, Fledgling. Lia lays an egg she doesn’t know what to do. At her age\, it’s impossible to escape the baby question\, and all her friends seem to be having children. She feels her heart’s not in it – but all the same\, there’s the egg\, impossible to ignore\, lying in a nest of towels in the living room. Her partner on tour on the other side of the world and her mother diagnosed with a terminal illness\, Lia finds herself torn\, unsure whether she’s ready to give up on her songwriting dreams; but time is running out\, and she must make one of the biggest decisions of her life. Beautifully written and brilliantly original\, Fledging is a riveting tale that asks what it is to lead a meaningful life\, and sounds a resounding call for women to make their own choices\, whether that means embracing motherhood or living child-free. \n\n\n\nThe authors will read from their work\, engage in conversation and take questions from the audience. \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\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/women-without-children-nicole-louie-in-conversation-with-rose-diell/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/preeti-insta-1024x1024-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20240906T163344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T110524Z UID:59901-1728068400-1728077400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Your Right To Protest by Christian Weaver DESCRIPTION:Housmans are very excited to be welcoming Christian Weaver to shop to celebrate the official launch of his vital new book Your Right To Protest. Christian is a human rights barrister\, social justice campaigner. His first book The Law In 60 Seconds: A Pocket Guide To Your Rights\, has been a long time staple of the Housmans catalogue and one of our bestselling titles\, it is an essential and accessible guide for those interested in activism and direct action. In Your Right To Protest he expands on many of the themes explored in the first book and brings together everything you need to know when taking a stand. Whether you are marching on the streets or making your voice heard from your own front room\, organising in your workplace or writing a letter to your MP\, this essential guide equips you with your fundamental rights and the laws that protect you – as well as the ones you might inadvertently break. \n\n\n\nFrom attending a demonstration to when the police can – and can’t – stop you\, this book has your back. In it\, you’ll find up-to-date information on a whole range of topics\, including: \n\n\n\n– Public assembly and who to notify when you’re on the move \n\n\n\n– Striking in the workplace and action your employer can take against you \n\n\n\n– Direct action and when it crosses over into trespass \n\n\n\n– Stop and search and how to access help if you are arrested \n\n\n\n– Online activism and what to do if you accidentally libel someone \n\n\n\nFor activists new and old alike\, Your Right to Protest is the indispensable guide to using your voice for what you believe in. \n\n\n\nThis is likely to be a very popular event and advance booking is 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’ 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\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-your-right-to-protest-by-christian-weaver/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Your-Right-to-Protest-cover-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241005T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241005T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20240910T161528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T110529Z UID:60152-1728154800-1728163800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Nic Watts & Sakina Karimjee discuss Toussaint Louverture DESCRIPTION:Housmans are thrilled to be welcoming Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee to the shop to discuss their American Book Award winning\, and The American Library in Paris Book Award longlisted\, adaption of C.L.R. James’s celebrate play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History. \n\n\n\nPERHAPS THE GREATEST VICTORY OF THE OPPRESSED OVER THEIR OPPRESSORS IN ALL HISTORY \n\n\n\nThe end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791\, the enslaved people of the most prized French sugar plantation colony revolted against their masters. For over twelve years\, against a backdrop of the French Revolution\, they fought an epic black liberation struggle for control of the island. Theirs was the first and only successful slave revolution. It was the creation of Haiti as a nation\, the first independent black republic outside of Africa\, and an international inspiration to the persecuted and enslaved. This is the impassioned and beautifully drawn story of the Haitian Revolution and its incredible leader: Toussaint Louverture. \n\n\n\nThe text of this graphic novel is a play by C. L. R. James that opened in London in 1936 with Paul Robeson in the title role. For the first time\, black actors appeared on the British stage in a work by a black playwright. The script had been lost for almost seventy years when a draft copy was discovered among James’s archives. Now this extraordinary drama has been reimagined by artists Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee.This book reproduces the stirring script James wrote\, and which united James for at least one night with his friend Robeson on the London stage\, when the playwright was forced to stand in for an absent actor. \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\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-nic-watts-sakina-karimjee-discuss-toussaint-louverture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/81tf8BCqZhL._SL1500_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241011T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241011T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20240913T151134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T110532Z UID:60243-1728673200-1728682200@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit launches TONGUELESS DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to welcome the brilliant Out-Spoken Press to the shop to celebrate the launch of Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit‘s brilliant new pamphlet Tongueless. \n\n\n\nRojbîn Arjen Yiğit is a Kurdish writer and poet. She is trilingual\, her poetry probes the themes of language\, exile and womanhood. Amongst other places\, her work has been published in Wasafiri\, Prototype\, Extra Teeth and Propel Magazine. Tongueless is her debut poetry pamphlet. Set in the beating heart of Family\, her poems are both a questioning of the past and a mirror searching for future possibilities. Grappling with loss\, the futility of language and the distances of countries\, these poems are an accumulation of the speaker’s struggles and senses. Interconnecting locales across generations\, they set out what it means to belong and what it means to mean. \n\n\n\nWe will have a host of poets supporting Rojbîn in the evening including Out-Spoken’s founding director Anthony Anaxagorou. A much celebrated poet in the UK\, Anthony has been published in POETRY\, The Poetry Review\, Poetry London\, Granta\, Ambit\, The Adroit Journal\, The London Magazine\, The Rialto and elsewhere. His poetry and fiction have appeared on BBC Newsnight\, BBC Radio 4\, ITV\, Vice UK\, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. His work has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the 2015 Groucho Maverick and 2019 H-100 Awards. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Roehampton. \n\n\n\n\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\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-rojbin-arjen-yigit-launches-tongueless/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/TONGUELESS-Rojbin-Arjen-Yigit-FRONT-COVER-20240805.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241012T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241012T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20240920T144547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T103034Z UID:60579-1728759600-1728768600@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: FROM THE ASHES by Sarah Jaffe DESCRIPTION:Housmans are very excited indeed to be welcoming one of our most beloved authors to the shop\, Sarah Jaffe\, for the UK launch of her excoriating\, thrilling and moving new work of non-fiction: From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss\, of unraveling hopes and expectations\, of dreams curtailed\, of aspirations desiccated. At the same time\, we are denied the means of mourning the futures that are being so brutally curtailed. At such a moment\, taking the time to grieve is a radical act.  \n\n\n\nThrough in-depth reporting intertwined with memoir\, Sarah Jaffe shows how public memorialization has become more than a refusal or a protest: it is a path to imagining a better world. When we are able to mourn the lives\, the homes\, and the worlds we have lost\, we are better prepared to fight for a transformed future.   \n\n\n\nSarah Jaffe is a writer and reporter living in New Orleans and on the road. She is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited\, Exhausted\, and Alone and Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt. \n\n\n\nHer journalism covers the politics of power\, from the workplace to the streets\, and her writing has been published in The Nation\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, The New Republic\, the New York Review of Books\, and many other outlets. She is a columnist at The Progressive and a contributing writer at In These Times. She also co-hosts the Belabored podcast\, with Michelle Chen\, covering today’s labor movement\, and Heart Reacts\, with Craig Gent\, an advice podcast for the collapse of late capitalism. \n\n\n\nSarah has been a waitress\, a bicycle mechanic\, and a social media consultant\, cleaned up trash and scooped ice cream and explained Soviet communism to middle schoolers. Journalism pays better than some of these. \n\n\n\nSarah will be in conversation with the brilliant K Biswas\, a critic and essayist who has written for the New Statesman\, New York Times\, The Nation\, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the Director of Resonance FM – Europe’s largest community radio station – and the Editor of Representology: The Journal of Media and Diversity. \n\n\n\nADVANCED BOOKING STRONGLY RECCOMENDED. \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\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-from-the-ashes-by-sarah-jaffe/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/DFZZptqD.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241016T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241016T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20241001T150103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T150106Z UID:60882-1729105200-1729112400@housmans.com SUMMARY:COMING OUT OF MY SKIN book reading and discussion between author Jean-Baptiste Phou and Dr Rohit K DESCRIPTION:This event is organised externally – visit the Eventbrite page for more information and to reserve a place: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/coming-out-of-my-skin-book-reading-and-discussion-between-author-jean-baptiste-phou-and-dr-rohit-k-tickets-1015892510847?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl \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/coming-out-of-my-skin-book-reading-and-discussion-between-author-jean-baptiste-phou-and-dr-rohit-k/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Eventbrite-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241019T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241019T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 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:20260403T210725 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:20241025T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241025T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20240917T122206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T110534Z UID:60373-1729882800-1729891800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music by Toby Manning DESCRIPTION:Housmans are very excited to be welcoming the brilliant Toby Manning to the shop to discuss his fantastic and all encompassing new tome: Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music. \n\n\n\nA radical history of the political and social upheavals of the last 70 years\, told through the period’s most popular music. \n\n\n\nMixing Pop and Politics is not a history of political music\, but a political history of popular music. Spanning the early 50s to the present\, it shows how\, from doo-wop to hip-hop\, punk to crunk and grunge to grime\, music has both reflected and resisted the political events of its era. \n\n\n\nMixing Pop and Politics explores the connections between popular music and political ideology\, whether that’s the liberation of rock’n’roll or the containment of girl groups\, the refusal of glam or the resignation of soft rock\, the solidarity of disco or the individualism of 80s pop. \n\n\n\nAt a time when reactionary forces are waging political war in the realm of culture\, and we’re being told to keep politics out of music\, Mixing Pop and Politics is a timely\, original and joyful exploration of popular music’s role in our society. \n\n\n\nToby will be joined in conversation by Adam Jones of the Acid Horizon podcast\, author of the The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy and co-author Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape. \n\n\n\nFor the first half of the event Toby and Adam will discuss the themes and arguments of Pop and Politics\, before this broadens out into an audience Q&A. After this\, we encourage milling about and then usually head to the pub. \n\n\n\nFeel free to BYOB. \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-talk-mixing-pop-and-politics-a-marxist-history-of-popular-music-by-toby-manning/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Mixing-Pop-and-Politics.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241029T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241029T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20240910T112012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241021T160453Z UID:60121-1730228400-1730233800@housmans.com SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Sheila Rowbotham – Reasons to Rebel\, the 1980s revisited DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED: We regret that due to unforeseen circumstances we have had to cancel this event. We hope to reschedule at a later date.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe welcome back to Housmans Sheila Rowbotham to dissect the 1980s\, to go through her own “reasons to rebel” and discuss the outcome of that rebellion. It was the worst of times\, it was the best of times… \n\n\n\n“The 1980s were a shock. Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government battered left movements\, painfully disrupted working-class peoples’ livelihoods and pressed down on many groups who faced discrimination. There was no shortage of reasons to rebel. Along with thousands upon thousands of others I opposed not just the repressive laws\, but the fundamental tenets of the new right. Hanging on to visions of creative utopias\, we strove for new ways of organizing and relating to others and we sought to connect a liberatory sexual politics with rebellions against many kinds of inequality. We argued wrote\, campaigned\, demonstrated\, picketed.We established alternative cooperative projects\, secured reforms through local government and made direct international links. Resourceful resistance slowed down the onslaught but we were contending not simply with the doctrinal resolve of a right-wing government. We faced something larger\, something that could not be voted out – a more ruthless global capitalism\, geared to profits which was prepared to dump hard-won social provision and neglect to conserve even basic infrastructure.” \n\n\n\nSheila Rowbotham is an English socialist feminist theorist and historian. She is the author of many books in the field of women’s studies\, including Hidden from History (1973)\, Beyond the Fragments (1979)\, A Century of Women (1997) and Threads Through Time (1999)\, as well as the 2021 memoir Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s. \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/sheila-rowbotham-reasons-to-rebel-the-1980s-revisited/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sheil-Rowbotham.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20240917T105826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T151617Z UID:60351-1730314800-1730325600@housmans.com SUMMARY:An evening with Richard Seymour DESCRIPTION:Housmans are thrilled to be welcoming Richard Seymour to the shop for a double book launch! Richard is one of the country’s pre-eminent leftist thinkers and writers and we are extremely lucky to help celebrate his latest polemic\, from Verso\, Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization as well as the new paperback re-issue of The Twittering Machine: How Capitalism Stole Our Social Life\, from Indigo Press. \n\n\n\nIn Disaster Nationalism\, Seymour argues that the rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro\, the true peril lies elsewhere. Defeating these people will not stem the tide driving them forward. They are merely the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood. Propelled through the vast networks of social media and fueled by far-right influencers\, enthralled by images of disaster and fantasies of doom\, they have emerged from a reservoir of societal despair\, fear\, and isolation. Within this seething cauldron\, we witness not only the surge of far-right political movements but also the sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies\, from ‘lone wolf’ killers to terrifying pogroms. Should a new fascism emerge\, it will coalesce from these very elements. This is disaster nationalism. Seymour delves deep into this alarming development in world politics\, dissecting its roots\, its influencers\, and the threats it poses. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling\, Seymour offers a stark warning. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization itself. Unless we understand the deeper forces propelling the far-right resurgence\, we have little chance of stopping it. \n\n\n\nIn surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine\, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media. Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users\, waiting for our next hit as we like\, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals\, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies\, desires and frailties into data\, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. \n\n\n\nThrough journalism\, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users\, developers\, security experts and others\, Seymour probes the human side of the machine\, asking what we’re getting out of it\, and what we’re getting into. \n\n\n\nFor the first half of the event Richard will be in conversation and discuss the themes and arguments of both books\, before this broadens out into an audience Q&A. After this we encourage milling about and then usually head to the pub. \n\n\n\nFeel free to BYOB. \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\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/an-evening-with-richard-seymour/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/preeti-insta-3-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241109T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241109T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20241008T122655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241109T172505Z UID:60912-1731178800-1731187800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: 'Monstrous Anger of the Guns' - ANDREW FEINSTEIN in conversation with VIJAY PRASHAD DESCRIPTION:PEACE ACTIVISTS UNCOVER THE TRUTH OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE BUSINESS IN THE WORLD \n\n\n\nEquips readers with the information they need to resist the lies that feed humanity’s urge to commit suicide. Read it!’ – Yanis Varoufakis \n\n\n\nHousmans are very excited to welcome the legendary ANDREW FEINSTEIN and VIJAY PRASHAD to the shop discuss a vital new text from Pluto Press: Monstrous Anger of the Guns: How the Global Arms Trade is Ruining the World and What We Can Do About It\, co-edited by Andrew\, Rhona Michie\, Paul Rogers and Jeremy Corbyn \n\n\n\nWe are seeing injustices caused by war and occupation unfold in real-time via social media\, and we are speaking out in our millions against these horrors. Yet\, from Gaza to Ukraine\, the bombs continue to fall. We must understand why this is happening if we are to end it. \n\n\n\nMonstrous Anger of the Guns lays bare the dark and deceitful world of the global arms trade\, which\, often funded in our name\, is a business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives. Leading activists and campaigners connect the dots\, showing how notions of citizenship\, democracy and trust in governments are misguided\, and how we can fight back by building mass movements\, using direct action and legal justice to end the flow of weapons and the environmental and human devastation they bring. \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAndrew Feinstein is the Executive Director of Shadow World Investigations. Andrew resigned as an African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa in 2001\, in protest at the government’s refusal to investigate corruption in a $10 billion arms deal. His first book\, After the Party\, reveals the impact of this deal. He also wrote the critically-acclaimed book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade\, and worked on an award-winning feature documentary\, Shadow World. Andrew appears regularly in a range of global media\, has contributed chapters on arms trade issues for a number of volumes\, and was named amongst the 100 most influential people in the world working in armed violence reduction by Action On Armed Violence. He serves on the Advisory Boards of The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa\, Lighthouse Reports\, Declassified UK\, and Demilitarise Education. \n\n\n\nVijay Prashad (PhD) is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of forty books\, including Washington Bullets\, Red Star Over the Third World\, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His latest book On Cuba (New Press\, 2024) was written with Noam Chomsky. He is Executive Director of The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter. He is also the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi) and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies\, Renmin University of China. He has appeared in two films – Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017). \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\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-monstrous-anger-of-the-guns-andrew-feinstein-in-conversation-with-vijay-prashad/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/5482.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241112T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241112T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20241002T123548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T123653Z UID:60894-1731438000-1731447000@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK DISCUSSION: 'The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament' - Martin Shaw in conversation with Kate Hudson DESCRIPTION:Help us celebrate the publication of Professor Martin Shaw’s ‘whirlwind tour’ of the CND and its history\, a organistion very close to Housman’s heart\, culturally and historically intertwined with us and the larger peace movement. \n\n\n\nThe launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 signalled the first modern protest movement in Britain. Martin Shaw details CND’s rise\, the activists involved\, the tensions with the Committee of 100 around direct action\, and the culture\, radicalism and social groups that were mobilized to “ban the bomb”. \n\n\n\nThe book discusses how a new movement in the 1980s\, led by European Nuclear Disarmament and the Greenham women’s peace camp\, helped remove cruise missiles from Europe and end the Cold War. It examines how the campaign influenced – and was influenced by – antiwar movements from Vietnam to Iraq and Gaza\, as well as the environmental and women’s movements. \n\n\n\nAs the nuclear threat returns in the 2020s\, this study shows that the antinuclear movement’s ideas and the non-violent direct action it pioneered still reverberate in the campaign against the UK’s “nuclear deterrent” – and in protest movements from Stop the War to Extinction Rebellion. \n\n\n\nMartin will be joined in conversation with CND’s General Secretary\, and long term friend of Housmans\, Kate Hudson. \n\n\n\nPRAISE FOR THE BOOK: \n\n\n\n“This whirlwind tour of CND’s history provides an accessible account of the political context\, campaigning dynamics and significant impact of Britain’s most enduring mass movement. Taking in key stops like Aldermaston\, Greenham Common\, Vietnam and Iraq\, Shaw tells the story of this powerful grass-roots movement and brings it right up to date – as it continues to fight for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Well worth a read.” – Kate Hudson\, General Secretary\, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament \n\n\n\n“The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the centre of anti-nuclear protest in the UK for six decades. Martin Shaw has written a stimulating\, balanced and comprehensive account of its remarkable history – something we all need to know about if we are to find ways to act in the face of renewed nuclear dangers including explicit nuclear threats\, the unravelling of nuclear arms control\, and the development of new generations of nuclear weapons.” – Mary Kaldor\, Director\, Conflict Research Programme\, London School of Economics \n\n\n\n“Shaw expertly synthesizes over 75 years of anti-nuclear protests and resistance into one compelling\, highly readable\, short history. The result is the single best survey of the anti-nuclear movement in Britain\, told judiciously by one of its long-term participants and a respected scholar of international relations.” – Christopher R. Hill\, Associate Professor of History\, University of South Wales \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 \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-discussion-the-campaign-for-nuclear-disarmament-martin-shaw-in-conversation-with-kate-hudson/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/9781788217774.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241113T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241113T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20241003T123702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241024T104752Z UID:60999-1731524400-1731529800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: 'Colin Ward: the anarchist tradition and do-it-yourself urbanism' with Verity-Jane Keefe and Ken Worpole DESCRIPTION:AUTONOMY NOW! PRESENT: ‘Colin Ward: the anarchist tradition and do-it-yourself urbanism’ with Verity-Jane Keefe and Ken Worpole\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nENTRY FOR THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT PLEASE RSVP USING THE LINK AT BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE \n\n\n\n2024 marks the centenary of the birth of Britain’s most famous anarchist\, Colin Ward\, and the publication of Mutual Aid\, Everyday Anarchy: Essays on Colin Ward (Five Leaves\, 2024). Ward wrote more than 30 books\, whose ideas and writings remain influential across the world\, including ‘The Child in the City’\, ‘Arcadia for All’\, ‘Reflected in Water’ and ‘When We Build Again’. Artist-activist Verity-Jane Keefe and writer Ken Worpole discuss Ward’s community-based\, self-reliant urbanism\, prioritising social networks as being at the heart of everyday life in towns and cities\, Ward’s anarchist approach playing a major influence on their own working practices. \n\n\n\nVerity-Jane Keefe is one of the UK’s pre-eminent urban public artists\, currently working with Towner Gallery (Eastbourne)\, Eastside Projects (Birmingham) and a Pre-Doc candidate with ZHdK (Zurich). Other recent commissions include Lead Artist on the Design Team for the Moorings Sociable Club on the Thamesmead Estate\, documented in her new book From Social to Sociable\, lead artist for the centenary of Becontree\, delivering ‘Living Together’\, an ambitious art project including a solo exhibition\, new collection\, palm tree planting\, and new tenant’s handbook which was distributed by letterbox to 27\,000 residents. \n\n\n\n‘Living Together’ marked the end of a 15-year period working in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham\, as artist in residence working with planning policy\, archives and heritage departments\, housing and regeneration on a variety of self-initiated and invited projects\, including the now-renowned ‘Mobile Museum’. \n\n\n\nKen Worpole is a writer and social historian\, and author of books on architecture\, landscape and public policy. For many years he has also pursued a particular interest in the social history and landscape of 20th century Essex\, about which he has written extensively. The New Statesman observed recently that: ‘Worpole is a literary original\, a social and architectural historian whose books combine the Orwellian ideal of common decency with understated erudition.’ Andrew Kelly is former Director of Bristol Ideas. He is a visiting professor at the University of the West of England and has written or edited 20 books on subjects ranging from film and cinema to aviation and Bristol’s rich cultural history. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHOSTED BY AUTONOMY NOW! https://autonomynow.noblogs.org \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-colin-ward-the-anarchist-tradition-and-do-it-yourself-urbanism-with-verity-jane-keefe-and-ken-worpole/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Mutual-Aid-Everyday-Anarchy-Essays-on-Colin-Ward.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241115T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241115T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T210725 CREATED:20241105T170751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241112T143337Z UID:62150-1731697200-1731704400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It by Natalie Fenton DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the launch of Natalie Fenton’s urgent new book: Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It. A free media is inextricably linked to a healthy democracy\, but in many parts of the world liberal democracies are deemed to be dying or on the demise – a demise that many forms of media have enabled while heralding themselves as democracy’s saviour. The hollowing out of democracy in these ways has left many people questioning the value of (neo)liberal democratic societies. What can we do about it? \n\n\n\nDemocratic Delusions explores the potential of our media and tech systems to be democratic and contribute to a just and transformative democracy. This is only possible\, Natalie Fenton argues\, by first situating our political systems and mediated worlds within global capitalism. By interrogating different media and their relationship to seven key elements of democracy – power\, participation\, freedom\, equality\, public good\, trust\, and hope – the book asks: What is the response of society when the ability of news media to speak truth to power has been restricted by corporate logic? And\, how do we tackle a deep-rooted market logic that shifts public debate towards private interest and marginalizes progressive perspectives? The book explores how these elements can be reimagined through newly conceived media and tech landscapes and\, ultimately\, what democracy might be in a future mediated world that places more power in the hands of more people. \n\n\n\nThis is essential reading for students and scholars of media and communications\, journalism\, political communications\, political science\, and sociology. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event. \n\n\n\nFeel free to BYOB! \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-democratic-delusions-how-the-media-hollows-out-democracy-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-by-natalie-fenton/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/1509548475.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR