BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.18.3.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.live 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:20260718T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260718T210000 DTSTAMP:20260715T154328Z CREATED:20260603T162235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260715T154328Z UID:79301-1784401200-1784408400@housmans.live SUMMARY:POSTPONED! DESCRIPTION:SADLY THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED. TICKET HOLDERS WILL BE NOTIFIED. KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR A NEW DATE \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe regret to announce this event with Huw Lemmey and Juliet Jacques has been postponed. This is due to unforeseen circumstances that have prevented the author from travelling to the UK.We will be rescheduling this event for the Autumn/Winter period. Ticket holders will receive an email shortly\, but just to say tickets booked for Saturday 18th July will still be valid. If you reserved a book and need a refund just let us know. Also if you would like your book posted to you in advance of the new date we will do so free of charge. Please email: shop@housmans.live \n\n\n\nAren’t you just SICK of gay fiction about nice boys just trying their best? BOREDof the sort of cosy political satire that makes Alistair Campbell chuckle? \n\n\n\nFINALLY! After years of waiting\, Huw Lemmey’s cult classics are back in print::CHUBZ: The Demonization of My Working Arse and RED TORY: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell\,two novels of terrifying predictive force and eye-watering sexual potency\, an antidoteto the grimly worthy bourgeois queer novels and tedious political fiction of our time.Lemmey’s novels depict the loopy political world of the past decade with the powerof a vicious Cassandra\, imagining a world of Brexit and Trump\, PM’s Boris and Nigel\,years before they came to pass. Set within a London gripped between authoritarianismand a genuine rupture in the healthy sexual order of things\, CHUBZ and RED TORYremain the sleeper hits of our time\, quietly seeding disquiet and insurrection into theover-stimulated lizard brain and under-stimulated rectal ampulla of the GREAT British Public. \n\n\n\nObscene? Potentially. Criminal? Maybe. Sick? Probably. But worth buying? UNDENIABLY! \n\n\n\nJoin the author LIVE and IN FULL FLESHY PERSONHOOD at Housmans\, in conversationwith the esteemed political-cultural powerhouse Juliet Jacques\, to discuss these arse-warping\,mind-bending SATIRES FOR OUR TIME. Run\, don’t walk! \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but if you would like to reserve a copy of the book(s)\, you can saw so through the ticket portal \n\n\n\nSADLY THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED. TICKET HOLDERS WILL BE NOTIFIED. KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR A NEW DATE \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.live/event/housing-reading-series-huw-lemmey-in-conversation-with-juliet-jacques/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Poetry-Series3-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260723T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260723T210000 DTSTAMP:20260717T160132Z CREATED:20260612T161522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T160132Z UID:79502-1784833200-1784840400@housmans.live SUMMARY:HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES: JAMES BYRNE DESCRIPTION:Join us for another evening of cutting edge poetry. \n\n\n\nFor this instalment\, we are delighted to welcome the legendary James Byrne to the shop to launch his latest collection The Banality of Power (Broken Sleep Books\, 2026) Joining him we have the incredible Ziba Karbassi and are delight to welcome back long time friend of Housmans Stephen Watts. \n\n\n\nOur Poets: \n\n\n\nZiba Karbassi—born in Tabriz\, northwestern Iran in 1969—began writing poems from an early age. Her first book in Persian was published in her twenties and\, since then\, she has published regularly\, with more than twelve books now available\, both in her mother tongue and internationally. Forced to leave Iran in the early 1980s with her mother and younger sisters\, she has since lived most of her life in London. She is widely regarded as one of the leading poets currently writing in Persian and\, to date\, her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Karbassi’s densely revolutionary lyrical writing achieves an intensity of space that is almost unique in contemporary poetry\, melting the valencies of breath into the depths of meaning. She has performed her work widely across Europe and America. She was Chairperson of the Association of Iranian Writers in Exile\, 2002 to 2004 and in 2009 she was awarded the Golden Apple Poetry Prize (Azerbaijan) and served as chair of Exiled Writers Ink from 2012 to 2014 and\, in 2012\, was chosen by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC\, Birkbeck\, University of London) as one of fifteen revolutionary poets in a worldwide survey of published writings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. From 2019 to 2021\, Karbassi was a director of the Iranian PEN Centre in Exile\, and she continues to work as a committee member and editor with Exiled Writers Ink in London\, always passionately and actively committing her life and work for poetry. \n\n\n\nStephen Watts was born in 1952. His father came from Stoke-on-Trent and his mother’s family from villages high in the Italian and Swiss Alps. He spent very vital time—in place of university—in northern Scotland\, especially the island of North Uist but\, since 1977\, has lived mainly in the richly multilingual communities of Whitechapel in East London. Geographies and location (as also their negative theologies) are urgent to his life and work. Recent books include Ancient Sunlight (Enitharmon\, 2014; reprinted 2020) and Republic of Dogs / Republic of Birds (Test Centre\, 2016; Prototype\, 2020). A 16mm\, 70-minute experimental film—The Republics—was made from the latter by Huw Wahl\, 2019. A collected Journeys Across Breath: Poems 1975-2005 was published by Prototype Publishing in 2022 (reprinted 2025) and A Book of Drawn Poems came out with Joe Hales’s Sylvia imprint in 2025. Watts is also a translator\, working closely with exiled poets and—inter alia—has co-translated Pages from the Biography of an Exile by the Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh (Arc Publications\, 2014)\, Syrian poet Golan Haji’s A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know (A Midsummer Night’s Press\, 2017) and Reza Baraheni’s Lilith (Tenement Press\, 2023).  His translation research has been the subject of two exhibitions: Swirl Of Words / Swirl Of Worlds\, PEER Gallery (Hoxton\, London)\, and for which he edited a book of that title\, and Explosion Of Words with the Swiss artist Hannes Schüpbach\, which celebrated his 2000 page Bibliography of Modern Poetry in English Translation\, at the Straühof Gallery (Zurich) and Nunnery Gallery (Bow\, London)\, in 2021 and 2022 respectively. \n\n\n\nPoet\, editor and translator\, James Byrne was born near London in 1977. His most recent poetry collection is The Banality of Power\, which received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.  Other recent books include Nightsongs for Gaia: New and Selected Poems Arc Publications\, 2025) and The Overmind (Broken Sleep Books\, 2024). He has co-translated and co-edited Bones Will Crow\, the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poetry to be published in English (Arc\, 2012) and I am a Rohingya\, the first book of Rohingya refugee poems in English (Arc 2019) after spending some time at Cox’s Bazar refugee camp. His publications in translation include working with Libyan poet Ashur Etwebi (Five Scenes from a Failed Revolution\, 2022)\, and Rohingya poet Ro Mehrooz (Poems Written Through Barbed-Wire Fences\, 2024). Forrest Gander writes that his poetry is ‘like gulping fire-water shots of the world’. The Banality of Power\, launched at this event\, speaks back to aggressors\, corporate power\, beginning with Nazi Adolf Einchmann on trial in a glass cage\, asking: who are the Eichmanns now and how we find a way to move forward in a fractured society and form community.    \n\n\n\nThis is a free event\, but please RSVP below. Feel free to BYOB. \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.live/event/housmans-poetry-series-james-byrne/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/BOOK-TALK-The-Journal-of-a-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260729T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260729T203000 DTSTAMP:20260603T155503Z CREATED:20260603T143903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260603T155503Z UID:79289-1785351600-1785357000@housmans.live SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: INTERNATIONAL FREAK ROBIN FARQUHARSON AND THE DREAM OF PSYCHEDELIC REVOLT DESCRIPTION:M. SYD ROSEN AND OWEN HATHERLEY DISCUSS THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF COUNTERCULTURAL ICON ROBIN FARQUHARSON \n\n\n\n‘Rosen is an intergenerational talent. That is\, he seems to move effortlessly across decades\, from dark matter to illumination; gleaning\, recovering\, challenging\, making new.’ \n\n\n\n Iain Sinclair \n\n\n\nBorn in 1930 into a privileged South African family\, Robin Farquharson was part of a new wave of intellectuals tasked with reimagining society in the wake of World War II—until a phone call from God brought everything crashing down. \n\n\n\nUnder the gaze of the secret police and his own mounting paranoia\, Farquharson fled to Swinging London and tried to reinvent himself as a countercultural guru. Along the way\, he helped to have South Africa banned from the Olympic Games\, authored an unclassifiable memoir of queer street life\, and climbed to the top of the mysterious White Panther Party. Then\, just days after founding the pioneering Mental Patients Union\, flames ripped through his home and Farquharson was gone. \n\n\n\nDrawing on meticulous archival research and extensive new interviews\, International Freak marshals an extraordinary cast of characters in order to tell Farquharson’s story for the first time. Equal parts experimental biography\, social history\, and psychedelic true crime\, this is a portrait of a singular man and the world he sought desperately to transform. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome M. Syd Rosen (author of this utterly compelling biography) and Owen Hatherley to Housmans to discuss the life of this truly remarkable hero of counter cultural Britain. \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.live\, 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.live. \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.live/event/book-launch-international-freak-robin-farquharson-and-the-dream-of-psychedelic-revolt/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/International-Freak-23.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR