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  • Book Launch: Dear Lettera 32 by Cat Chong

    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. Dear […]

    £2 – £12

  • Book Launch: Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani

    We are incredibly excited to welcome the seminal author and academic Amin Ghaziani over from Canada for a special talk at Housmans centering on his latest book Long Live Queer Nightlife: how the closing of gar bars sparked a revolution. A brilliant sociological intervention into the history of the 'gay bar' and its subsequent evolution […]

    £1 – £25

  • SISSY ANARCHY presents the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube

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    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. For our first journal, we present the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube, an auto-essay journal that […]

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  • 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.

    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. About the book:Ukrainian artist and poet Misha Honcharenko is a refugee fleeing […]

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  • GRIEF AND GOODNESS: A Conversation between Camille Sapara Barton and Sanah Ahsan

    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 […]

    £1 – £27

  • POETRY READING: NAT RAHA launches ‘apparitions (nines)’

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    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. Reading alongside Nat we'll have […]

    £1.00 – £12.99

  • BOOK TALK: Neuroqueer: A Neurodivergent Guide to Love, Sex, and Everything in Between by Cj Debarra

    We are delighted to be welcoming the wonderful journalist and public speaker CJ DeBarra to talk about their essential guide to love, sex and dating while neurodivergent. Hitting their mid-thirties and still uncertain about relationships, sex, and love, CJ DeBarra launched into a quest for understanding. Growing up in West Cork, Ireland, CJ knew they […]

    £1 – £9.99

  • POETRY READING: KYLE LOVELL & ALEX MARSH DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH

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    WE ARE BACK with another absolutely stellar poetry reading. Our friends over at The Poet's Hardship Fund have been busy with one of their fantastic imprints Chaff. We will be launching two new titles: Kyle Lovell's equisite God Bless All Petty Thieves and Alex Marsh's ingenius Holding Pattern. Alongside Kyle and Alex we are blessed […]

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  • POETRY READING: Briony Hughes launches SPECULATIVE FREQUENCIES

    We are excited to welcome the daring and innovative poetry press Permeable Barrier back to Housmans and help them launch their sophomore publication: Speculative Frequencies by Briony Hughes. ​In this invigorating new collection, Briony Hughes uses her experiences tracking bats through the Surrey Hills as a means to expand 'communication' beyond the human body. The bat […]

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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 […]

    Free – £24.99

  • SOLD OUT! THE LOG BOOKS: VOICES OF QUEER BRITAIN AND THE HELPLINE THAT LISTENED with Tash Walker &Adam Zmith

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    please 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 […]

    £2.50 – £20.00

  • The Word in Others’ Mouths: Susan Rudy and Shelly Harder in conversation

    The Word in Others' Mouths: Susan Rudy and Shelly Harder in conversation Susan Rudy and Shelly Harder come together to launch new chapbooks from Ottawa's above/ground press.  Rudy's Consequences gathers a thousand sentences — from feminist theorists, queer poets, songs, private conversations, and decades of notebooks — stripping them of hierarchy and ownership, letting Brossard […]

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