BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20240216T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240216T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T144104 CREATED:20231222T164527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240210T180520Z UID:53622-1708110000-1708119000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: Dear Lettera 32 by Cat Chong DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the publication of Cat Chong’s ‘Dear Lettera 32’\, the first physical publication by PermeableBarrier\, an online journal of art and poetry. Cat Chong\, one of our most exciting young up and coming poets\, will be joined by special guest readers: Nisha Ramayya\, JD Howse\, Briony Hughes and Kat Sinclair. \n\n\n\nDear Lettera 32\, Cat’s second collection\, is a text that revels in contradictions\, and in doing so gives the lie to our comfortable assumptions about the act of writing in and of itself. Refusing to capitulate to the reassurances of singular address\, Cat Chong draws from the world around them to create a kaleidoscope of hope and longing\, divinity and corruption\, esoterica and hypermodernity. Confessional\, lyrical\, yet densely packed with theory\, Chong uses an encounter with a typewriter as the inspiration for a migration across the possibilities of poetry. The resulting work is a deeply readable yet visually jarring text that evades easy categorisation. Is this an epistolary novel? A diary? A poem? Chong inhabits multiple spaces while rejecting the easy categorisation that any of them might offer\, instead opening up their work to the creative possibility of discomfort. \n\n\n\nOur Readers: \n\n\n\nCat Chong is a poet whose work considers the intersections between genre\, genderqueerness\, disability\, and chronic illness. Their debut collection 712 stanza homes for the sun was published in 2023 by Broken Sleep Books\, and is available to purchase from their website. Cat is currently the digital editor at Osmosis Press\, where they publish poetry by a wide variety of writers interested in pushing boundaries and crossing borders. They’re a graduate of the Poetic Practice MA at Royal Holloway\, a PhD student at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, and visiting PhD fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. Cat can be found on instagram and twitter @marbledmayhem. \n\n\n\nNisha Ramayya grew up in Glasgow and now lives in London. Her poetry collection States of the Body Produced by Love (2019) is published by Ignota Books. Her second collection will be published by Grantain 2024. Tentatively called Now Let’s Take a Listening Walk\, it hazards a musical journey through history\, myth\, and sci fi. \n\n\n\nBriony Hughes teaches poetry at Royal Holloway University\, where she is currently completing her PhD. She is Poet in Residence at the University of Surrey\, editor at Osmosis Press\, and co-edits the poetry feature in Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine. She lives in Berkshire with her partner and their two rabbits. \n\n\n\nKat Sinclair is a poet from Southampton. She is the author of Very Authentic Person (The 87 Press)\, Please Press (Sad Press)\, and upcoming publication The Pharmacy. \n\n\n\nJD Howse works across poetry\, essay\, collage\, and fiction. He is the author of a number of books including Just Meat Not God\, This Is A Dagger\, and Noises Again. He runs PermeableBarrier and works as a producer for a publishing company.Sent from my iPhone \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.com. \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\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-dear-lettera-32-by-cat-chong/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Dear-Lettera-32-by-Cat-Chong-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240223T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240223T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T144104 CREATED:20231219T161456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T114936Z UID:53503-1708714800-1708723800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: Of Talons and Teeth: A Novel by Niall Griffiths DESCRIPTION:We are very excited to welcome the novelist Niall Griffiths to Housmans on February 23rd to celebrate the publication of his new novel Of Talons and Teeth: an historical novel set Wales before the Industrial Revolution\, as human love tries to flower amidst squalor and serfdom. Niall will be in conversation with the brilliant Gary Budden\, one of the country’s finest writers of weird fiction and psychogeography (and hybrids thereof.) \n\n\n\nWales\, a mining village\, pre-industrial revolution. A world of serfdom and squalor\, its inhabitants oppressed by both Chapel conformist impulses and the predations of a new kind of capitalism being born. \n\n\n\nSion\, a metalworker\, strikes up an illicit relationship with Katherine\, the wife of the mineowner’s personal dogsbody. And so begins the struggle of non-transactional and non-exploitative human love to be recognised in a place bent on the destruction and negation of that very thing. \n\n\n\nA mix of political anger\, historical excavation\, Celtic mysticism\, praise of the human impulse to love and rage at avarice and exploitation\, Of Talons and Teeth seeks to explore that moment when human beings and the natural beauties around them were turned into mere chattels; when Mammon became the only god worth worshipping. \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.com. \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\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-of-talons-and-teeth-a-novel-by-niall-griffiths/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Talons-n-Teeth.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240227T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240227T213000 DTSTAMP:20260406T144104 CREATED:20231219T164112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240227T175708Z UID:53522-1709060400-1709069400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Mick Lynch: The making of a working-class hero" by Gregor Gall DESCRIPTION:We are very excited to welcome Professor Gregor Gall to the bookshop to celebrate the publication of his new book about Mick Lynch\, the celebrated trade unionist and General Secretary of the RMT. \n\n\n\n In the summer of 2022\, the little-known leader of a small union became a ‘working-class hero’. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk all over him\, he offered a robust critique of the government and capitalism\, and in doing so\, provided workers with an authentic voice. At a time when Labour was unable to articulate a credible alternative to the Tories\, Mick Lynch spoke for the working class. \n\n\n\nThis book\, the first biography of Lynch\, asks and answers the questions: Where did he come from? How did he develop the skills and traits that make him such an effective spokesperson? How has his leadership fared in the heat of battle? The book\, both a celebration and critique of Lynch\, explores his persona and politics\, as well as the political period he operates in and the potential power of his members. It holds lessons for all workers and their unions.  \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-mick-lynch-the-making-of-a-working-class-hero-by-gregor-gall/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Mick-Lynch-cover1519.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240229T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240229T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T144104 CREATED:20240202T172307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T172310Z UID:54365-1709231400-1709238600@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘Eaten By The Internet’ with Corinne Cath and Fieke Jansen [at Space4\, Finsbury Park] DESCRIPTION:‘Eaten By The Internet’ with Corinne Cath and Fieke Jansen [at Space4\, Finsbury Park] \n\n\n\nHousmans has proudly teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology \n\n\n\nIn this first session we’ll be hosting Dr. Corinne Cath and Dr. Fieke Jansen to talk about the politics of internet infrastructure – the theme of their newest book Eaten by the Internet. \n\n\n\nEaten by the Internet makes internet infrastructure visible as a force of political power\, transforming the social world from the bottom up. It is made up of fifteen chapters\, contributed by a global set of researchers\, activists\, and techies. \n\n\n\nDr. Cath is the editor of Eaten by the Internet. She is a cultural anthropologist studying the politics of Internet infrastructure and cloud computing. Her current focus is on the adequacy of existing EU technology policy efforts that touch on cloud computing. \n\n\n\nDr. Jansen is one of the contributors to the book. She is a tech skeptic\, researcher\, educator and advocate on the impact of technology on society. Her research interest is to understand how the material impact of expending infrastructures is shaping the management\, distribution\, and depletion of natural resources. \n\n\n\nDr. Cath and Dr. Jansen will be in conversation with Luke Robert Mason who hosts the FUTURES Podcast – a show that explores the topics of artificial intelligence\, human enhancement\, space travel and virtual reality. Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments. \n\n\n\nEaten by the Internet is published by Meatspace Press\, an independent publisher translating academic research on tech to real life\, or “meatspace”. You can order your copy of Eaten by the Internet here\, or download a free copy of the pdf here. You can also pre-order the book through our event ticketing and Housman’s bookshop will bring it for you on the day. \n\n\n\nSPACE4\n\n\n\nSPACE4 is part of Outlandish\, a co-op that builds websites and digital tools for social good. We are interested in tech for good\, progressive economics\, and social change. We provide co-working\, meeting\, and events space\, primarily to social enterprises and digital activists. We also organise and host a range of events\, workshops\, and meetups around these topics. Don’t hesitate to get in touch or visit us. \n\n\n\nThe £5 charge on this event is a deposit that will be refunded if you attend. The reason behind this is to assure bums on the seats as we spend a lot of time prepping for these events and workshops. If you’re unable to pay contact natasha@outlandish.com for free registration.USE THE LINK BELOW TO RESERVE A TICKETTHIS EVENT IS NOT AT HOUSMANS\, BUT AT SPACE4 in FINSBURY PARK \n\n\n\nVenue access information: https://space4.tech/visit-us \n\n\n\nSign up to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dKiIsU \n\n\n\nVisit our website: https://space4.tech \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... 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