Events
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the87press & Housmans Bookshop present: Hummingbirds 7.0, a literary salon
FeaturedJoin the87press for a very special Hummingbirds event featuring Alia Al Ghussain and Rayya El Zein to celebrate the launch of Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic (Indiana University Press, 2025). […]
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HOUSMANS x FESTIVAL OF URBAN LIBERATION
FeaturedReclaiming The Public Space: Community Centres as Hubs of Solidarity & Action As part of the FESTIVAL OF URBAN LIBERATION (F.O.U.L) we welcome a series of thinkers and activists whose […]
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POETRY Imogen Cassels & Fintan Calpin
FeaturedWe're extremely excited for the next Housmans poetry series featuring a double launch for two brilliant poets. We will have the frighteningly sharp, inimitable Imogen Cassels launching her latest pamphlet, […]
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An Evening with Richard Norton-Taylor
FeaturedRichard Norton-Taylor is a living legend: on staff at The Guardian since the early 70s, and now working at Declassified UK, he is most known as one of the finest, […]
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Poetry: A Celebration of Jack Spicer
FeaturedFor the second installment of our October poery series we once again celebrate the much underappreciated 20th century American poet Jack Spicer, after our sold out event for the uncollected […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: WE ARE STILL HERE: STUDENT VOICES FROM GAZA
FeaturedHousmans are honored to be hosting the launch event for this courageous book. We Are Still Here is an anthology of raw, unfiltered, and courageous voices featuring short and long […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni (in conversation with Helen Hester)
FeaturedHousmans are very excited to welcome Dr Alyssa Battistoni to the shop to discuss her vital work of political theory, Free Gifts: Capitalism and The Politics of Nature. Capitalism is […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Bourgeois Coldness: Henrike Kohpeiß in conversation with Lilly Markaki
FeaturedForegrounding affect, this timely book provides an inestimable philosophical argument for the centrality of Blackness in critical examinations of capitalism’s violence. Denise Ferreira da Silva Elegant and erudite in equal […]
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Book Lauch: THE SPECTRAL WOMAN with Ciara Cremin
‘A radical feminisation of the world’ – McKenzie Wark Housmans is delighted to welcome Ciara Cremin all the way from New Zealand to discuss her mind-blowing book The Spectral Woman. […]
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Autonomy Now present ‘Love and Revolution: A Politics for the Deep Commons’ with Matt York
Autonomy Now present 'Love and Revolution: A Politics for the Deep Commons' with Matt York Based on award-winning research, Love and Revolution (Manchester University Press, Contemporary Anarchist Studies series, 2025) […]
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TALK: Remembering Women: Lessons From the Ancient World with Christine Lehnen
FeaturedWomen do have a history of their own.All we need to do is remember it. Housmans are delighted to welcome the academic Dr Christine Lehnen to the shop to discuss […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: FERAL CLASS with Marc Garrett
FeaturedUntamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission Feral Class is Marc Garrett’s deeply personal and thought-provoking exploration of his early […]
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SOLD OUT! The First Jasmines by Saima Begum
FeaturedPLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL SHOP@HOUSMANS.COM Housmans and Hajar Press are delighted to celebrate […]
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Housmans Poetry Series: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain launches ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’
FeaturedJoin us for another poetry evening, this time in collaboration with our great friends Osmosis Press, launching a new collection, ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’, from Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain. Prudence will […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: SEA NOW: Eva Meijer in conversation with Lucy Mercer
Featuredevent for an exciting Dutch writer supported by Arts Council England and New Dutch Writing. 'Sea Now joins Meijer's rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence. One […]
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