In Store
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BOOK TALK: Adrift in the South by Xiao Hai
FeaturedWhen Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began fifteen years spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China's fast-growing southern cities. Adrift in the South is a memoir of life as a migrant labourer in the twenty-first […]
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BOOK TALK: Absolute Ethical Life: Michael Lazarus in conversation with Bruno Leipold
FeaturedAristotle, Hegel and Marx: Michael Lazarus In Conversation with Bruno Leipold Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face under capitalism. Interpreting Marx anew as an ethical thinker, Absolute Ethical Life provides crucial resources for understanding […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: THE NEXT FIX by KOJO KORAM
FeaturedThe question is no longer if we should legalise drugs. It's: what happens when we do? The future of drugs is here, and it's dangerously unequal. Over the last decade, the status quo around drugs has collapsed. Drugs once sold as safe cures have been revealed as ineffective or dangerous, while substances criminalised for generations […]
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DREAMS AND GHOSTS WITH DOMINIC PETTMAN & EVERYDAY ANALYSIS
FeaturedJoin us for a conversation between two of the most exciting theorists of the digital realm, Dominic Pettman and Alfie Bown We are delighted to welcome our friends Everyday Analysis back to Housmans for what promises to be another stimulating reflection on the agonies and aporias of contemporary culture. This time we have Dominic Pettman […]
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HOUSMANS READING SERIES: Valerie Hsiung with Verity Spott, Andrea Brady and others
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. We will be celebrating Valerie's latest book, The pedestrian: a poet’s novel, a body, a house, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror […]
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Circadian Radio
FeaturedCircadian Radio is a night of performances by poets and writers ★ 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 ★ During the evening, the performances are offered in solidarity with our dear friend, a writer who is […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: MILKING MOTHER EARTH: Fragments of an Investigation by Kaisa Saarinen
FeaturedCome and celebrate the first pamphlet from Gauze Bonnet Press! This 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 […]
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Book Launch: Liquid Reflections with Liliane Lijn
FeaturedWe are profoundly honored to be hosting the paperback launch for a memoir by one the world's greatest living artists, the sculptor Liliane Lijn, who will be joined in conversation by leading art writer Jennifer Higgie. Photo credit: Clay Perry Liliane Lijn is an artist who needs little introduction. Her stirring, often ostentatious and always […]
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Housmans Poetry Series: Jay Gao
FeaturedFor our next poetry evening we welcome to London the marvellously talented Jay Gao! He will be launching his mysterious, stirring new collection, 'The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in your ear, Thriving Slumber', published by Carcanet. Joining him we welcome a whole host of incredible poets: Dom Hale, Alycia Pirmohamed, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, […]
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SOLD OUT! ‘The Rulers:Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud’ by Cecilia Rikap
Featuredplease not this event is now sold out. It will be recorded and uploaded onto our youtube channel in the coming days. Capitalism’s rulers are not abstract entities or shadowy operators. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are the cloud hegemons that subsume the world through the exercise of their intellectual monopolies. Giants like Disney, McDonalds, Nike […]
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WILD FOLKLORE AND UNRULY WOMEN
FeaturedElizabeth Sulis Kim and Brigid Lowe in conversation The bear deities, Artio and Artaius, who’ll rise from sleep; the salmon of wisdom who gifts understanding of the universe’s past, present and future; the Lion Man carved 40,000 years ago. Three determined women plot against an ambitious sorcerer, they are queen Goewin, the reclusive sorceress Arianrhod, […]
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CHARITY SHOP WORLD! with Tansy E. Hoskins
FeaturedWE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME TANSY E. HOSKINS TO HOUMANS TO TALK ABOUT HER GROUNDBREAKING, MOVING NEW STUDY OF CHARITY SHOPS AND THE ROLES THEY PLAY IN MODERN CONSUMERIST CULTURE. ‘Charity shops are ubiquitous and invisible. They anchor the high street, employ thousands, process millions of items. Yet far more is written about AI than […]
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POETRY SERIES: NELL PERRY
FeaturedJoin us for another evening of cutting edge, brilliant poetry. This time we will be launching Nell Perry's incredible new work of hybridised poetics His Splendid Tables, published by Runamok! His Splendid Tables is a collection of hybrid writing combining wayward translation and poetic essay to explore, variously, what is lost and what is gained […]
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ZINE LAUNCH: TRANNY CENTRAL
FeaturedJOIN US FOR FOR THE LAUNCH OF THIS INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF THE GAY LIBERATION FRONT'S TRANSSEXUAL, TRANSVESTITE AND DRAG QUEEN GROUP, FROM TGIRLSONFILM Come for the launch of the third bumper edition of "Tranny Central", with new archival goodies and newly commissioned articles. In Tranny Central, TGirlsonFilm summons the spirits of our radical trans-sisters of […]
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PANEL TALK: PUBLISHING AS COLLECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE with Minor Compositions
FeaturedWhat if a book wasn’t an endpoint but an infrastructure? Please join us for the launch of Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. This title is less a 'book' than it is a radical rethinking of the book-form itself; formulated as a collectively authored, polyphonic work; an intervention into the realms of academic and open-access publishing. The […]
£2.50 – £14.00
