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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 poems last year. This time we launch two books: the collected letters and lectures,which will be either read from, or responded to by, a host […]
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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 stories, poems, essays, and testimonies written by students from Gaza's universities, edited by Prof. Zahid Pranjol and Dr. Jacob Norris published by Daraja Press. Throughout […]
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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 typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon emissions […]
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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 measure, this book will stand as a landmark diagnosis of the practices of denial in our time. Andreas Malm We are delighted to welcome an […]
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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. What if the feminine holds the power to undo domination itself? In The Spectral Woman, Ciara Cremin reveals the feminine as the force which can abolish […]
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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 years, chronicling his journey as a working-class artist navigating a world that often rejects them. Through humorous, vivid storytelling and incisive critique, Garrett explores how […]
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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 the launch of this important, magnificent novel. Saima Begum's The First Jasmines follows two sisters, Lucky and Jamila, after they are captured by the military […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: JAW FILLER: Maz Murray & Charlie Markbreiter in conversation with So Mayer
FeaturedExperimental trans neonoir fiction. 'Jaw Filler instantly joins the canon of outlier literature: jaw-dropper, more like.’ - Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat Gold Housmans and Montez Press invites you to a conversation around the new neonoir novel Jaw Filler by Maz Murray & Charlie Markbreiter, hosted by writer So Mayer. Tickets are free but booking is essential. 'You […]
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SOLD OUT! THE LOG BOOKS: VOICES OF QUEER BRITAIN AND THE HELPLINE THAT LISTENED with Tash Walker &Adam Zmith
Featuredplease note this event is now sold out. To be added to a waiting list please email shop@housmans.com An intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes. Switchboard was founded at Housmans, and operated out of our premises for many years. So we are honored to start […]
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Housmans Valentine’s Day Special: COURTING DISASTER with Zoë McGee
FeaturedFan of a Romantic Period Drama? Can't stand the stuff? Either way, we've got the event for you. Come and deconstruct Romance this Valentine's Day with Housmans and Zoë McGee We'll be discussing Zoë's fabulous new work of Romantic Deconstruction: Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel. What do #MeToo and Jane […]
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MAY WE FEED THE KING: Writing Radical Fiction Today with Rebecca Perry & Misha Honcharenko
FeaturedPerry combines effortless exactitude with canny ambiguity to create a novel that is always as stimulating as it is enchanting. 'May We Feed the King' is a rare achievement, I absolutely loved it. Claire-Louise Bennett We are delighted to welcome two of the most exciting writers working in Britain today, Rebecca Perry and Misha Honcharenko, to Housmans for […]
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HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES: Joseph Minden launches Answerlands
FeaturedWe are BUZZING to be keeping off our 2026 Poetry Series with the brilliant Joseph Minden, who'll be launching is latest collection Answerlands, published late last year by Carcanet. Joining Joseph we have Kat Addis, Joseph Persad, Dolly Rae Star and Verity Spott. This is a free event, but please RSVP below. Also please feel […]
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TALK: NO TO NUCLEAR! Linda Pentz Gunter in conversation with Jonathon Porritt
Featured‘Linda Pentz Gunter has done a great service in highlighting the nuclear chain reaction and exposing the huge human and environmental costs. We need this book for our environment and a peaceful world’ – Jeremy Corbyn We are delighted to welcome Linda Pentz Gunter to Housmans to discuss her new book No To Nuclear. Brilliantly […]
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BOOK TALK: Superweak: Thinking in the 21st Century: Laurent de Sutter in conversation with Alfie Bown
FeaturedUsing the stealth capacities of hermeneutic distrust as his weapon of choice, de Sutter’s writing breaks into unrecovered areas of subtle teachings, shedding light on philosophemes gleaned from Aristotle to punk-led attitude, biojewelry, and the historical buildup of authority billed to the triumph of reason in its many intrusive morphs.— Avital Ronell, New York University […]
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POETRY: Jazmine Linklater, Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar and more
FeaturedPlease join us for our second poetry night of the year. This time we celebrate Jazmine Linklater's immense and devastating new long poem 'Snagged on red thread' (published by Monitor). Reading alongside Jazmine we have Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Al Anderson, Harriet Rose and JD Howse. This is a free event, but please RSBP […]
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