BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.17.4.1//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:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260801T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260801T220000 DTSTAMP:20260629T130948Z CREATED:20260629T122120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T130948Z UID:80047-1785610800-1785621600@housmans.com SUMMARY:HOUSMANS READING SERIES: Valerie Hsiung with Verity Spott\, Andrea Brady and others DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome the incredible Valerie Hsiung to Housmans\, visiting us from the mountains of Colorado in USA. Joining her we have some of the finest poets working in Britain today. \n\n\n\nWe will be celebrating Valerie’s latest book\, The pedestrian: a poet’s novel\, a body\, a house\, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror of displacement. \n\n\n\nEmerging from the dark ecology between lullaby and ghost story\, The pedestrian meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes demand a more defective detective. To conjure the source of this text’s trauma\, the poet becomes a ritual detective\, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through distortion and echo—courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. An ill pastoral of displacement\, The pedestrian turns domestic spaces into underworlds\, the body of the exiled child into a prophetic threshold—it listens as much as it speaks\, attuned to forces beyond itself. \n\n\n\nPRAISE: \n\n\n\nWhy are some people’s pores open in their aloneness? Valerie Hsiung asks\, in this\, the most—maybe only—honest biography I’ve ever read. Is it a biography? It is the consequence of a porousness (i.e. of being perforated) that seems to be the consequence\, in turn\, of being made to live the impossible state of perpetual estrangement as self-enchantment\, the impermanent state of metamorphosis as permanence. Hsiung’s writing has accompanied and seen me through so many incarnations; I am ready for what The pedestrian will make of me—will make of all of us—next. \n\n\n\n-Brandon Shimoda \n\n\n\nThe pedestrian is intimate as an ultrasound of the past\, revealing a many-chambered organ haunted by someones\, somethings and others. A cross between medium and technician\, Valerie Hsiung meticulously probes the uncanny gap between before and after with a language devised for this purpose and no other. Precise\, unflinching and subtle\, Hsiung’s sentences shift to meet the unspeakable where it lives—within. \n\n\n\n-Anne de Marcken \n\n\n\nSilky grief\, kinetic gaps and dislocations\, and a potent\, trance-like narration that brushes and brushes against the inarticulable. Valerie Hsiung’s The pedestrian is entirely outside of category\, awakening nerves long dormant through its gorgeous obliquity\, its charge of fresh music. The hypnosis is plainly startling\, entangling the reader and guiding her into the most otherworldly of spaces: the other worlds rushing forth\, ungovernable\, inside this one. In place of the usual tired meanings comes the largesse of mystery and deeper\, stranger voices. The pedestrian is an antidote ampule to memory’s cliches. No\, not just memory’s cliches—to any force that conspires to sever the dreaming from the waking. \n\n\n\n-Jenny Xie \n\n\n\nThe pedestrian is a map to a terrain of shards and shadows. While reading it\, I felt lost only to the land of the normative\, a lush fugitivity. I traveled far with\, because of\, and in this book. Hsiung trusts in the politics of decomposition\, making syntaxes that have been distorted by grief\, and thus sharpened to what cannot be colonially extracted. Writers like this know that grammar\, vocabulary\, and the sentence itself are haunted\, so they write not to exorcise or cure this condition of its ghosts\, but to make a place for them to live\, a place they belong. \n\n\n\n– Johanna Hedva \n\n\n\nTwo is a confounding number\, asserting\, through its adjacency to one\, the split from which consciousness proceeds. In the third person\, Valerie establishes a self in two parts\, living two lives\, witnessing in memory an architecture of diasporic remembrance at odds with Proustian time. The past in The pedestrian is cellular—replicated\, split\, migrated— its membranes stretched by Valerie’s devoted prose\, its unsentimental attunement to the fray of love and loss. She renders what’s closest—a mother\, a house\, a child—radically extimate. An inversion inviting\, at the turn of every mundane gesture\, history’s ravenous ghost (eating is always a reminder of hunger). Legs splayed open\, birthing herself with each new paragraph\, She is a revelation. She shows how perfect the sentence can be as a place to keep the wound active. A staggering act of containment enabling us to remain in touch with the break\, and to find\, in the split\, all of life’s surplus. \n\n\n\n-Mirene Arsanios \n\n\n\nOUR POETS: \n\n\n\nAmelia Zhou is a writer and researcher. Her book Repose\, which interweaves poems\, fiction\, and lyric essay\, was awarded the 2022 Wendy’s Subway Book Prize and published in 2024. She is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Cambridge\, where her research examines the political-aesthetic role of photographic images and tropes in predominantly Anglophone life narratives from the 1970s to the present. She is also currently the Emerging Critics Fellow at the Sydney Review of Books. Born and raised in Sydney\, she lives in London.  \n\n\n\nAzad Ashim Sharma is a writer and publisher based in South London. He is the director of the87press. His work includes Against the Frame (Broken Sleep Books\, 2022) and Ergastulum (Broken Sleep Books\, 2022). His work has featured in publications such as the Asian American Writers Workshop\, Stand Magazine\, Gutter Magazine\, the journal Social and Health Sciences\, SPAMzine\, MIR Online\, and Wasafiri. He is a Chase-funded PhD Candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College\, University of London. He is the recipient of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award 2023. He lives in London.  \n\n\n\nVerity Spott is a poet\, blogger\, teacher\, carer and musician from Brighton\, England\, and publisher of the independent publishing house Iodine Press. Verity’s books include Click Away Close Door Say (Contraband\, 2017)\, Prayers Manifestos Bravery (Pilot Press\, 2018)\, Hopelessness (The 87 Press\, 2020)\, Songs of the Morning (slub\, 2023) and The North Road Songbook (Pilot Press\, 2024). Since 2006\, Spott has run the monthly poetry and performance event Horseplay in Brighton. \n\n\n\nAndrea Brady is an American poet and lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of eight books of poetry including\, Desiring Machines\, The Blue Split Compartments\, The Strong Room\, and Cut from the Rushes. She has performed in Europe\, Canada\, the US\, Lebanon\, and Chile\, and has been invited to speak about poetry by the British Academy\, British Council\, the BBC\, the Arts Council\, and the Poetry Society. Her work has been translated into numerous languages\, including French\, German\, and Croatian. \n\n\n\nGhazal Mosadeq is a poet\, editor and translator. She is the founder of Pamenar Press\, an independent publisher of poetry\, translation\, hybrid and critical writing. Her own work has been published by Sheirsman\, Fence\, Arc Poetry\, Firmament\, Asymptote\, Modern Poetry In Translation and Ugly Duckling Presse (forthcoming)\, among others. She is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. \n\n\n\nValerie Hsiung is a poet who writes between worlds\, where language meets ritual and abolition meets afterlife. Drawing on diasporic\, ecological\, and metaphysical inquiry\, her books dissolve the borders of poetry\, prose\, performance and philosophy into a single listening body. She is the author of eight full-length books\, including The pedestrian (Nightboat Books)\, The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath)\, To love an artist (Essay Press)\, and outside voices\, please (CSU). Recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Camargo Foundation and Lighthouse Works as well as grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts and PEN America\, she teaches writing at the limits of language at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Her ceremonial work and pedagogy has been studied by researchers on the subject of emancipatory practices including Sophie Orlando. Born to Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, she now lives in the foothills of Colorado. \n\n\n\nPlease note this is a free event but please do book ahead. You can also reserve a copy of the book. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/housmans-reading-series-valerie-hsiung-with-verity-spott-andrea-brady-and-others/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Poetry-Series-Valerie-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260807T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260807T210000 DTSTAMP:20260804T135553Z CREATED:20260610T150512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T135553Z UID:79449-1786127400-1786136400@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY READING: ELLEN RENTON LAUNCHES 'YOU AND YOURS' DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of poetry to mark the launch of Ellen Renton’s new pamphlet.\n\n\n\nYou and Yours: \n\n\n\nSwinging across timelines and from the mundane to the surreal\, You and Yours is a study in grief: how it exists beyond seismic losses in the stories we inherit\, in shifting friendships\, and in uncertain landscapes. These poems celebrate the self as a malleable entity under the influence of all the lives it encounters\, and balance the pain that characterises the loss of a profound connection with the wonder of having it in the first place. \n\n\n\nAbout Ellen Renton: \n\n\n\nEllen Renton is a writer from Edinburgh. Her work has been published in journals including Poetry London\, Gutter\, and Magma\, and she released her debut pamphlet An Eye For An Eye For An Eye with Stewed Rhubarb Press. Her work in theatre has included the one-woman show Within Sight (2020)\, Disciples (2023)\, and PALS (in development in 2026). She has released an EP and the album My Noise is Nothing with electronic musician Lord of the Isles. She holds an MA in Creative Writing: Poetry from the University of East Anglia. \n\n\n\nPlease note this is an externally organised event. Any inquires should be made to: ellenmrenton@hotmail.co.uk \n\n\n\nTICKETS: \n\n\nRegister on Eventbrite\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-ellen-renton-launches-you-and-yours/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260811T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260811T210000 DTSTAMP:20260803T112601Z CREATED:20260803T112558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260803T112601Z UID:81097-1786474800-1786482000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Circadian Radio DESCRIPTION:Circadian Radio is a night of performances by poets and writers\n\n\n\n★ The night features performances by: Hesse K\, Francis Jones\, Sara Mostafa\, Oisín Roberts\, Jordan Minga\, Phoebe Eccles\, Maya Uppal\, Will Aghoghogbe and open mic slots ★ \n\n\n\nDuring the evening\, the performances are offered in solidarity with our dear friend\, a writer who is fundraising anonymously for combined visa and top surgery costs. As anonymous fundraisers often slip to the back of people’s mind\, this event has been organised by their friends to encourage donations to their gofundme.   \n\n\n\nThere will be a donations based bar with both soft and alcoholic drinks at the venue.  \n\n\n\nThe Line Up: \n\n\n\nHesse K \n\n\n\nFrancis Jones \n\n\n\nSara Mostafa \n\n\n\nOisín Roberts \n\n\n\nJordan Minga  \n\n\n\nPhoebe Eccles  \n\n\n\nMaya Uppal \n\n\n\nWill Aghoghogbe \n\n\n\n& Open Mic  \n\n\n\nPlease note this is externally organised event. Any queries should be addressed to mayamcdowelluppal@gmail.com \n\n\n\nBook tickets here: \n\n\n\nhttps://www.outsavvy.com/event/38334/circadian-radio \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/circadian-radio/ CATEGORIES:In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/7ae72264-43d5-405f-b40b-85d1b349be0b.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260815T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260815T210000 DTSTAMP:20260727T151113Z CREATED:20260727T151111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260727T151113Z UID:80672-1786820400-1786827600@housmans.com SUMMARY:POETRY SERIES: JOEY FRANCES DESCRIPTION:For our next poetry evening we welcome to London (the really very special poet) Joey Frances\, for the London launch of his new chapbook\, many beautiful acquaintances. Joining him we welcome back Imogen Cassels\, Robert Kiely and Danny Hayward. \n\n\n\nOUR POETS: \n\n\n\nBiography:\n\n\n\nJoey Frances is a poet\, musician\, poetry organiser & teacher based in Manchester. He co-organises the reading series Peter Barlow’s Cigarette\, and a bi-weekly poetry reading group. All his previous poems can be read at pxxtry.com. \n\n\n\nImogen Cassels is the author of Silk Work (Prototype\, 2025) and the pamphlets Peach machine (The Last Books\, 2025)\, Chesapeake (Distance No Object\, 2021)\, VOSS (Legitimate Snack / Broken Sleep\, 2020)\, Arcades (Sad Press\, 2018) and Mother\, beautiful things (Face Press\, 2017). She lives in London. \n\n\n\nRobert Kiely is a writer and editor currently based in London. He was born in Co. Cork\, Ireland. He has published three collections of poetry and a book of literary criticism. His essays and book reviews have appeared in the Cambridge Literary Review and the LA Review of Books. \n\n\n\nDanny Hayward is a poet and critic. His books of criticism include Wound Building: Dispatches from the Latest Disasters in UK Poetry (2021) and Training Exercises (2024) and his most recent volume of poetry is It Was Like Watching (The Last Books\,2026). He runs the archive of out-of-print and inaccessible/DIY poetry Free Trials http://www.pxxtry.com\, where much of his own work is freely available. \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-series-joey-frances/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Poetry-Series5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260818T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260818T203000 DTSTAMP:20260814T125334Z CREATED:20260503T145005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260814T125334Z UID:78529-1787079600-1787085000@housmans.com SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] 'FLAMBOYANCE' WITH JACK PARLETT IN CONVERSATION WITH PETER SCALPELLO DESCRIPTION:We are sorry to announce that this event has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances – all existing ticketholders will be contacted\n\n\n\nJACK PARLETT AND CELEBRATED POET PETER SCALPELLO DISCUSS ‘FLAMBOYANCE’ AND HOW IT IGNITES EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES\, FROM ART AND ENTERTAINMENT TO RITUAL AND PROTEST. \n\n\n\nFlamboyance is Jack Parlett’s follow up to his acclaimed Fire Island (A Housmans bestseller of 2022). This new book has all the qualities one has come to expect of Jack’s work; big hearted and erudite in equal measure. \n\n\n\nFlamboyance ignites every aspect of our lives\, from art and entertainment to ritual and protest. The word conjures exuberance and unashamed passion; in thought\, expression and dress. Yet historically the term ‘flamboyant’ has been reserved for the over-the-top and the outré\, invoked at times as a pejorative innuendo or worse. \n\n\n\nIn his fascinating new book\, Jack Parlett argues for its value as an empowering and creative force\, illuminating the ways in which flamboyance is a fundamental aspect of human conduct that both marks and transcends difference. \n\n\n\nTaking in an eclectic array of examples\, from Gothic architecture to the orange flowers of Dungeness\, and populated by figures such as Oscar Wilde\, James Baldwin\, Elton John\, Amy Winehouse\, Lil Nas X and Chappell Roan\, this is a book about flamboyant art and the art of flamboyance. And having both aspired to it and rejected it\, Jack recounts his personal relationship to flamboyance while also finding new meanings of the word\, exploring its surprises and contradictions\, and reconnecting with its radical power. \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nJack Parlett is the author of three books: The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr (a monograph with University of Minnesota Press)\, Same Blue\, Different You (a poetry pamphlet with Broken Sleep Books)\, and Fire Island: A Queer History (Granta)\, which was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2023. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker\, Document Journal\, BBC Culture\, Boston Review\, Literary Hub and Poetry London. \n\n\n\nPeter Scalpello is a writer and psychotherapist from Glasgow\, based in London. Their second book\, Mirrorstage\, was published this year with Cipher Press. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-flamboyance-with-jack-parlett/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/91i4Plth9zL._SL1500_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260819T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260819T210000 DTSTAMP:20260807T133650Z CREATED:20260805T131235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260807T133650Z UID:81206-1787166000-1787173200@housmans.com SUMMARY:SOLD OUT! HOUSMANS READING SERIES: Robert Glück DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. The waiting list for this event is now also full. \n\n\n\nHousmans are beyond honoured\, and slightly delightedly flabbergasted\, to welcome the legendary writer Robert Glück to the shop for a reading. Robert\, or Bob\, is one of the most important writers working in the world today\, in a career that spans many decades\, poetry and cutting edge fiction; his work has been of profound importance to the contemporary queer literary landscape. \n\n\n\nReading alongside Bob we’ve some of the most exciting younger writers working in London today: Oisín Roberts\, JD Howse and Luke Roberts. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. To avoid disappointment\, please do not arrive without a valid ticket. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/housmans-reading-series-robert-gluck/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Poetry-Series12.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260822T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260822T210000 DTSTAMP:20260730T201249Z CREATED:20260729T161718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T201249Z UID:80743-1787425200-1787432400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: MILKING MOTHER EARTH: Fragments of an Investigation by Kaisa Saarinen DESCRIPTION:Come and celebrate the first pamphlet from Gauze Bonnet Press!\n\n\n\nThis pamphlet is a free-wheeling interdisciplinary exploration of rubber\, taking readers from Bangkok fetish bars to smallholder plantations in Vietnam\, looking through history from European colonisation of the homelands of latex to Victorian British moral panics about sex toys made from the material. Kaisa interweaves academic research with first hand accounts from her research trips and poetry both by herself and and others.  \n\n\n\nThroughout this journey\, she contemplates the feminised life of rubber. She speaks to women in the industry\, considers the history of rubber dildos\, finds womanhood in the poems of Vietnamese rubber laborers\, and wonders what it means to milk mother earth. \n\n\n\nThis work is born out of notes from her ongoing research project and artistic collaboration with Bart Seng Wen Long\, Rubber Dreams of its Lifetime. \n\n\n\nKaisa Saarinen is a former feral farmgirl based in London. She writes poetry\, fiction and non-fiction\, often blending them together in hybrid forms. Her books include the novel Weather Underwater (2023)\, and short-form collections Maitonaut (2024) and Voideuse (2022). In close collaboration with Bart Seng Wen Long\, she is leading the research-based art project Rubber Dreams of its Lifetime.’ \n\n\n\nReading and performing alongside Kaisa we have: \n\n\n\nBart Seng Wen LongCat Feliciano& Gabrielle Sicam \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but please RSVP below! \n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-milking-mother-earth-fragments-of-an-investigation-by-kaisa-saarinen/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG_3537-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260829T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260829T210000 DTSTAMP:20260805T113037Z CREATED:20260804T165202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260805T113037Z UID:81160-1788030000-1788037200@housmans.com SUMMARY:HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES: VERITY SPOTT DESCRIPTION:* \n\n\n\nThe morning approaches. It engulfs everything\, filling the precincts and flooding the valley with sound. The sky and the air seem to be speaking\, reporting every moment. The hearts are lit up and flee. \n\n\n\nOne night\, I rose\, and retreated into the dream. A vehicle welcomed the cold\, and quietly rose. Inside the dream you were floating cut off\, down along the coast. I thundered for your name. \n\n\n\n* \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome the seminal poet Verity Spott to Housmans for the launch of a new collection of poetry: Good Morning\, published by Pilot Press. \n\n\n\nReading alongside Verity we’ve got Laurel Moore and Naomi Weber. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event but please do book ahead to avoid disappointment. Copies of the book can also reserved through the ticket portal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/housmans-poetry-series-verity-spott/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Poetry-Series-1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR