BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.18.3.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop 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:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240329T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240329T223000 DTSTAMP:20240329T170804Z CREATED:20240308T111642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T170804Z UID:55232-1711738800-1711751400@housmans.live SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: GREASEPAINT by Hannah Levene DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to be hosting the UK launch for Hannah Levene’s thrilling new work of experimental lesbian fiction\, GREASEPAINT! Drawing from her research into Butch Dyke culture and the Yiddish Anarchist tradition Levene’s novel is like nothing else you’ll ever read: in one of many bars\, Frankie Gold sings while Sammy Silver plays piano after a day job at the anarchist newspaper. The Butch Piano Players Union meets in the corner next to the jukebox. Laur smokes on the back steps\, sweaty thigh to thigh with Vic. Frankie’s childhood sweetheart Lily turns up at yet another bar to see a second Sammy play every Friday night. And before all that\, there’s always dinner at Marg’s. Fabulated out of oral histories\, anthologies\, as well as the fiction of the butch-femme bar scene and Yiddish anarchist tradition\, Greasepaint is a rollicking whirlwind of music and politics—the currents of community embodied and held inside the bar. \n\n\n\nJoining Hannah in our celebration are some of the chicest butchest trailblazers writing and performing in and around London today. They are: Evelyn Wh-ell\, and D Mortimer. \n\n\n\nYou don’t want to miss this one! Please book in advance to avoid disappointment! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is ticketed – see options below. If you choose Greasepaint + Event Entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to afford a ticket please email shop@housmans.live to reserve a free place\, no questions asked. \n\n\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/book-launch-greasepaint-by-hannah-levene/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/9781643622132_FC-300x450-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240323T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240323T220000 DTSTAMP:20240208T112901Z CREATED:20240208T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T112901Z UID:53930-1711220400-1711231200@housmans.live SUMMARY:Book Launch: Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani DESCRIPTION: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 into the ‘queer space’\, Ghaziani traces the evolution of the queer scene through site specific research in various London nightspots. ‘Radically inclusive’ in its argument\, the book avoids pessimistic rhetoric and instead makes the case for a vibrant queer present led by those too often left out of mainstream gay culture. \n\n\n\nAmin will read from the book and will then discuss some of its wider themes and his research\, followed by a Q&A. See you there! \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 + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \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/book-launch-long-live-queer-nightlife-how-the-closing-of-gay-bars-sparked-a-revolution-by-amin-ghaziani/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/9780691253855.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240322T184500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240322T220000 DTSTAMP:20240322T175939Z CREATED:20240227T154945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240322T175939Z UID:53927-1711133100-1711144800@housmans.live SUMMARY:Poetry: Lalah-Simone Springer DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to be serving as the Central London stop on Lalah-Simone Springer’s UK tour in promotion of her brilliant new collection of poems\, An Aviary of Common Birds. \n\n\n\n An Aviary of Common Birds is Lalah-Simone Springer’s first collection of poetry. It is an emotionally raw work built on the poet’s deep wells of inner strength and heart-warming sensitivity. Springer’s poetry asks questions about love\, family\, community and working class relationships\, and at the heart of the writing is acceptance. An Aviary of Common Birds is a collection which is always there for the lonely\, reaching out a hand\, dreaming of a brighter future. \n\n\n\nJoining Lalah will be Foluke Taylor and Stanley Iyanu and there will be an open mic session. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRAISE for An Aviary of Common Birds: \n\n\n\nAlive with the street songs of East London\, Lalah-Simone Springer’s searching\, tender poems speak through the sensory worlds of a first date ‘lesbian manicure’\,  the ‘shukka-shukka sound’ of competitive clothes-washing\,  the ‘sharp shock of pink\, juicy fruit’. Moving from loss and desolation into a new-found-land of queer rapture\, An Aviary of Common Bird’s voices capture the raw immediacies of desires and their fulfilments. Intoxicating and compelling\, these spaces of transformation\, liberation and self-claiming are urgently generous. \n\n\n\n— alice hiller\, bird of winter \n\n\n\nAn Aviary of Common Birds is a breathtaking collection. A celebration of Black womanhood\, queerness and the endz – these poems exude vulnerability\, and take us on a journey through love\, community\, and conviction. \n\n\n\n— Desree\, I Find My Strength In Simple Things \n\n\n\nA thought-provoking collection exploring memory\, relationships\, and the commonalities between people. Lalah’s care. Her love\, wit and frustration permeate through these poems. \n\n\n\n— Yomi Ṣode\, Manorism \n\n\n\nThis collection is connected to worlds beyond this time. Trust the invisible currents. I was led to history\, to other poets\, through love\, and lust\, and lostness and return. It was a timeless fluttering. \n\n\n\n— Deanna Rodger\, I did it too \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 + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\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/poetry-lalah-simone-springer/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240315T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240315T213000 DTSTAMP:20240315T183128Z CREATED:20240209T105650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T183128Z UID:53923-1710529200-1710538200@housmans.live SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Infinite City by Niall Kishtainy DESCRIPTION:‘Glorious’ GUARIDAN \n\n\n\n‘Vigorous\, rigorous and eminently readable’ Thomas W. Hodgkinson \n\n\n\nLondon is a city of dreamers. A city of possibility and experiment. A city of fervent imaginings and courageous aspirations. For centuries\, it has been the capital of utopian thought. The Infinite City tells this history for the first time. \n\n\n\nHousmans are extremely excited to welcome Niall Kishtainy for a special talk in and around his acclaimed book The Infinite City. Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More\, the Diggers\, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors. He introduces us to thinkers like Thomas Spence who threw coins stamped with the words ‘YOU FOOLS’ into the alleys of Holborn. To Ada Salter who was the first woman borough councillor in London and ignited the Bermondsey Revolution. To ninety-two-year-old Dolly Watson who became the queen of Claremont Road in Leytonstone during the Reclaim the Streets protests in the 1990s. These are inspiring tales of people who drew might from the city around them and fought for their ideologies in an increasingly transforming world. \n\n\n\nBeginning in the sixteenth century and stretching from the contemporary transformation of the East End docklands to the COVID lockdowns\, The Infinite City shows how London’s spirit has been one of visionary imagination amid relentless change and innovation. \n\n\n\nNiall will be delivering an exclusive presentation (complete with slides) followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nDoors: 7:00\, Event start: 7:30 \n\n\n\n As always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact us at shop@housmans.live\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \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/book-talk-the-infinite-city-by-niall-kishtainy/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/91jHOvIdpFL._SL1500_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240223T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240223T213000 DTSTAMP:20240108T114936Z CREATED:20231219T161456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T114936Z UID:53503-1708714800-1708723800@housmans.live SUMMARY:Book Launch: Of Talons and Teeth: A Novel by Niall Griffiths DESCRIPTION:We are very excited to welcome the novelist Niall Griffiths to Housmans on February 23rd to celebrate the publication of his new novel Of Talons and Teeth: an historical novel set Wales before the Industrial Revolution\, as human love tries to flower amidst squalor and serfdom. Niall will be in conversation with the brilliant Gary Budden\, one of the country’s finest writers of weird fiction and psychogeography (and hybrids thereof.) \n\n\n\nWales\, a mining village\, pre-industrial revolution. A world of serfdom and squalor\, its inhabitants oppressed by both Chapel conformist impulses and the predations of a new kind of capitalism being born. \n\n\n\nSion\, a metalworker\, strikes up an illicit relationship with Katherine\, the wife of the mineowner’s personal dogsbody. And so begins the struggle of non-transactional and non-exploitative human love to be recognised in a place bent on the destruction and negation of that very thing. \n\n\n\nA mix of political anger\, historical excavation\, Celtic mysticism\, praise of the human impulse to love and rage at avarice and exploitation\, Of Talons and Teeth seeks to explore that moment when human beings and the natural beauties around them were turned into mere chattels; when Mammon became the only god worth worshipping. \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.live. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \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/book-launch-of-talons-and-teeth-a-novel-by-niall-griffiths/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Talons-n-Teeth.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240216T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240216T213000 DTSTAMP:20240210T180520Z CREATED:20231222T164527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240210T180520Z UID:53622-1708110000-1708119000@housmans.live SUMMARY:Book Launch: Dear Lettera 32 by Cat Chong DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nDear Lettera 32\, Cat’s second collection\, is a text that revels in contradictions\, and in doing so gives the lie to our comfortable assumptions about the act of writing in and of itself. Refusing to capitulate to the reassurances of singular address\, Cat Chong draws from the world around them to create a kaleidoscope of hope and longing\, divinity and corruption\, esoterica and hypermodernity. Confessional\, lyrical\, yet densely packed with theory\, Chong uses an encounter with a typewriter as the inspiration for a migration across the possibilities of poetry. The resulting work is a deeply readable yet visually jarring text that evades easy categorisation. Is this an epistolary novel? A diary? A poem? Chong inhabits multiple spaces while rejecting the easy categorisation that any of them might offer\, instead opening up their work to the creative possibility of discomfort. \n\n\n\nOur Readers: \n\n\n\nCat Chong is a poet whose work considers the intersections between genre\, genderqueerness\, disability\, and chronic illness. Their debut collection 712 stanza homes for the sun was published in 2023 by Broken Sleep Books\, and is available to purchase from their website. Cat is currently the digital editor at Osmosis Press\, where they publish poetry by a wide variety of writers interested in pushing boundaries and crossing borders. They’re a graduate of the Poetic Practice MA at Royal Holloway\, a PhD student at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, and visiting PhD fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. Cat can be found on instagram and twitter @marbledmayhem. \n\n\n\nNisha Ramayya grew up in Glasgow and now lives in London. Her poetry collection States of the Body Produced by Love (2019) is published by Ignota Books. Her second collection will be published by Grantain 2024. Tentatively called Now Let’s Take a Listening Walk\, it hazards a musical journey through history\, myth\, and sci fi. \n\n\n\nBriony Hughes teaches poetry at Royal Holloway University\, where she is currently completing her PhD. She is Poet in Residence at the University of Surrey\, editor at Osmosis Press\, and co-edits the poetry feature in Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine. She lives in Berkshire with her partner and their two rabbits. \n\n\n\nKat Sinclair is a poet from Southampton. She is the author of Very Authentic Person (The 87 Press)\, Please Press (Sad Press)\, and upcoming publication The Pharmacy. \n\n\n\nJD Howse works across poetry\, essay\, collage\, and fiction. He is the author of a number of books including Just Meat Not God\, This Is A Dagger\, and Noises Again. He runs PermeableBarrier and works as a producer for a publishing company.Sent from my iPhone \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.live. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \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-dear-lettera-32-by-cat-chong/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Dear-Lettera-32-by-Cat-Chong-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240125T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240125T213000 DTSTAMP:20240125T180354Z CREATED:20231219T154725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240125T180354Z UID:53484-1706209200-1706218200@housmans.live SUMMARY:The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy: Maya Oppenheim in conversation with Nadia Whittome MP DESCRIPTION:Housmans are absolutely delighted to welcome writer and journalist Maya Oppenheim to the shop alongside the brilliant Nadia Whittome MP to celebrate the publication of Maya’s new book\, ‘The Pocket Guide to Patriarchy’. \n\n\n\nAcross the world\, women are still denied opportunities and rights. The home remains the most dangerous place for women to be worldwide; with the majority of homicide victims who are women being killed by partners or relatives. In some countries\, women who get abortions after they are raped face jail time. Less than 20 per cent of landholders in the world are women. Despite all these truths\, many would prefer to blame women. For not demanding a seat at the table. For walking home alone at night. For not working hard enough to overcome the odds that are stacked against them. In her fact-filled\, inclusive and energising book\, Maya Oppenheim supplies you with the unforgettable realities\, real-world anecdotes and tales of resistance to help you combat denial and continued injustice as the far-right grows and women’s rights come under attack. If yet another rebuttal of patriarchy leaves you lost for words\, this book can be pulled out of your pocket. \n\n\n\nMaya and Nadia will unpick the book’s major themes together\, tacking issues such as women’s health\, sexual Violence\, the criminal justice system\, sex work\, policing and reproductive rights. \n\n\n\nThis will be followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.live. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \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/the-pocket-guide-to-the-patriarchy-maya-oppenheim-in-conversation-with-nadia-whittome-mp/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/hbg-title-9781398718746-42.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231124T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231124T213000 DTSTAMP:20231123T115115Z CREATED:20231027T151714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231123T115115Z UID:52241-1700852400-1700861400@housmans.live SUMMARY:LAUNCH: 'Deeping It: Colonialism\, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill' by Adèle Oliver DESCRIPTION:We are very excited to welcome Adèle Oliver to celebrate the London launch of her vital\, erudite and exacting book ‘Deeping It: Colonialism\, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill’. Adèle will be joined by fellow members of the Art Not Evidence group\, a brand new charity launching this month. \n\n\n\nArt Not Evidence is a new coalition comprising senior lawyers\, journalists\, academics\, youthworkers\, music industry professionals\, and human rights campaigners. Their mission is to fight for a fairer criminal justice system by advocating for a restriction on the use of creative and artistic expression as evidence in criminal trials. They believe that art\, including music\, should be protected as a fundamental form of freedom of expression and should not be used to unfairly implicate individuals in criminal charges. \n\n\n\n The main focus of the discussion will be Adèle’s book ‘Deeping It’ an analysis of drill’s fight against moral panic and its fraught relationship with the police and political authority in the UK\, exemplified by constant censorship\, racism\, and moments such as when a drill duo became the first people in British legal history to receive a prison sentence for simply performing a song. Policing\, policy and criminalization are the cornerstones of colonial suppression; art\, self-expression and collective action are beacons of resistance. Deeping It places drill firmly in the latter category\, tracing its production and criminalization across borders and eras of the British Empire\, exploring drill’s artistic singularity but also its inherent threat as a Black artform in a world that prioritizes whiteness. Intervening on this discourse steeped in anti-Blackness\, this Inkling ‘deeps’ how the criminalization of UK drill cannot be disentangled from histories\, technologies\, and realities of colonialism and consumerism. \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.live. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \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/launch-deeping-it-colonialism-culture-criminalisation-of-uk-drill-by-adele-oliver/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DEEPINGITclear-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231122T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231122T203000 DTSTAMP:20231102T133532Z CREATED:20231102T130529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T133532Z UID:52338-1700679600-1700685000@housmans.live SUMMARY:VAGUE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF ANARCHO-PUNK FANZINES: with Tom Vague and Tony D (Ripped And Torn/Kill Your Pet Puppy) hosted by MayDay Rooms DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the publication\, by PC-Press (www.pc-press.co.uk) of a brand new compendium ‘Vague Fanzines Book\, Vol. 1: 1979-1984: Issues 1-15’\, which lovingly reproduces the first 15 issues of Vague in A4-sized full colour\, we welcome to Housmans Tom Vague in discussion with Tony D\, to talk about the impact Vague had\, and also on anarcho-punk zine culture more widely. \n\n\n\nVague was a fanzine that tuned so many people on to the joy of punk and the futuristic and hybrid styled music that followed it\, that became known as ‘Post-Punk’ or for a period of time ‘Positive Punk’. Vague promoted the notion that a band meant something more than the music and that meaning could be shared amongst like-minded folk\, the ‘lovable spikey tops’ or the like-minded ‘tribe’ that people were looking for. Vague though was critical enough to see through the growing number of punk bands who were seduced by the world of popstardom and teen adulation. \n\n\n\nThat disillusion often turned into a searching for the counter culture\, or philosophy and radical politics\, to find something that could inspire us to be different and to change the world around us. Vague became the go to critical counter cultural fanzine that still found music irresistible but wasn’t just a fawning FAN zine. Vague also importantly had a sense of humour\, it could laugh at itself as well as brag about how good it was and slag off those it found wanting! \n\n\n\nTom Vague\, the long-running editor of Vague\, will be joined by Tony D\, the man behind the classic punk zines Ripped and Torn\, and also Kill Your Pet Puppy. The event will be hosted by MayDay Rooms\, whose archival work celebrates and preserves radical print cultures and DIY Independent publishing house PC-Press who have published Vague volume 1 and also books about Test Dept\, Massive Attack\, Killing Joke\, NSK State and a Post-punk novel; Looking For A Kiss by Richard Cabut. \n\n\n\nThe event will be hosted by MayDay Rooms\, whose archival work celebrates and preserves radical print cultures. \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/vague-and-the-importance-of-anarcho-punk-fanzines-with-tom-vague-and-tony-d-ripped-and-torn-kill-your-pet-puppy-hosted-by-mayday-rooms-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/VAGUE-COMPENDIUM-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231118T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231118T223000 DTSTAMP:20231118T173836Z CREATED:20231020T152435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231118T173836Z UID:51918-1700334000-1700346600@housmans.live SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape DESCRIPTION:CONSPIRE. GO ASTRAY. BURN YOUR WAY OUT. \n\n\n\nWe’re very happy to be welcome the ACID HORIZON crew to Housmans to celebrate the launch of their new work of conceptual espionage: ANTI-OCULUS: A Philosophy of Escape. \n\n\n\nThrough the concept of “Ocularity”\, the writers trace the political\, medical\, and historical ways power sees us through its categories of control and counter-insurgency. \n\n\n\nFrom the thermodynamics of policing in the cyberpunk present\, to the psychiatric colonization of the image\, to bodies that “go astray” in an increasingly reactionary society; Anti-Oculus maps out the ways we are captured under the eyes of cyber-capital\, and provokes us to find each other in pursuit of emancipation\, community\, and new forms of life. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.live. \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-launchanti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/anti-oculus-event-flyer-housmans-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231111T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231111T223000 DTSTAMP:20231111T130726Z CREATED:20231005T160338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231111T130726Z UID:51764-1699729200-1699741800@housmans.live SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer DESCRIPTION:Housmans is celebrating the paper-back release of the uncollected poetry and plays of the seminal American poet Jack Spicer\, edited\, and with a brilliant introduction\, by Daniel Katz. We are delighted to have Daniel with us in the shop to help celebrate Spicer’s work. \n\n\n\nBe Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form\, with his blistering intelligence\, painful double-edged wit\, and devastating will to truth everywhere on display. Most of the poetry here has never before been published\, but the volume also includes much out-of-print or hard to find work\, as well as Spicer’s three major plays\, which have never been collected. Here one finds major unfinished projects\, early and alternate versions of well-known Spicer poems\, shimmering stand-alone lyrics\, and intricate extended “books” and serial poems. In writings that range in date from his first days in Berkeley in 1945 through to the final months of his life\, 20 years later\, one sees the full development of Spicer as a writer. \n\n\n\nDaniel will begin the evening by speaking about the project and then reading a few of his favorite poems from the book. This will be followed by a poetry reading from some contemporary ‘Martian poets’\, influenced by Spicer’s work. These are: Mau Baiocco\, Al Anderson\, Sam Weselowski\, Simon Smith\, Paige Murphy\, Nell Osborne\, Cat Chong\, JD Howse\, Francis Jones and Dom Hale. There will be two intervals of 15 minutes each. \n\n\n\nThis event is free\, but please RSVP. \n\n\n\nBYOB! ALL WELCOME! See you there! \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-be-brave-to-things-the-uncollected-poetry-and-plays-of-jack-spicer/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Spicer-BeBrave-C-300-X.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220621T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220621T203000 DTSTAMP:20220607T132647Z CREATED:20220607T132645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220607T132647Z UID:41773-1655838000-1655843400@housmans.live SUMMARY:Doreen Massey: Selected Political Writings DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Lawrence Wishart Books\n\n\n\nDoreen Massey was one of the most influential human geographers of the post-war period. A key feminist and socialist thinker\, she brought geographical inequality to the fore of left politics. Through her activism\, she combined a focus on class with a prescient awareness of its intersections with gender\, race and sexuality.This book is a collection of Doreen Massey’s essential political writings\, from reflections on support groups during the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike to assessments of the Sandinistas’ spatial policies and ownership campaigns relating to Liverpool Football Club. It gives a vivid sense of Massey’s dynamic style as a left public intellectual whose work impacted major political initiatives\, and introduces her important ‘politics of place’ to a new generation of activists. \n\n\n\nDoreen Massey was a pioneering radical geographer\, theorist and activist\, whose work challenged how we understand space\, place and power. This collection of her writings brings together articles on social justice and previously un-digitised essays\, for a fresh insight into Massey’s political commitments. It aims to give geographers a better sense of her political commitments while introducing her theory of location to a new generation of social justice activists. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nDavid Featherstone is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Resistance\, Space and Political Identities: the Making of Counter-Global Networks and Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism. He is a member of the editorial collectives of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography and Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture. He holds a PhD from the Open University. \n\n\n\nDiarmaid Kelliher is a postdoctoral researcher and trade unionist at the University of Glasgow. His book\, Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike was published by Routledge in May 2021. \n\n\n\nHilary Wainwright is co-editor of Red Pepper and research director of the New Politics Project of the Transnational Institute\, Amsterdam. Her most recent books include Public Service Reform: But Not As We Know It! (Compass/UNISON) and Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy (Seagull). \n\n\n\nDr Ulises Moreno-Tabarez is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. He is also a Research Associate for LSE London and Associated Academic at the Latin American and Caribbean Centre. He serves as a core Editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal City: Analysis of Urban Change\, Theory\, Action. He holds a PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies from the LSE. \n\n\n\nAmelia Horgan is a writer\, researcher and editor from London. She is currently a PhD candidate on work at the University of Essex’s School of Philosophy and Art History. Her first book\, Lost in Work (Pluto Press) came out in June 2021. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\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/doreen-massey-selected-political-writings/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LW_books_series_ops_2-pages-7_page-0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220420T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220420T203000 DTSTAMP:20220307T145205Z CREATED:20220307T145149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220307T145205Z UID:40117-1650481200-1650486600@housmans.live SUMMARY:The Rise of Ecofascism with 12 Rules for WHAT [online event] DESCRIPTION:The world faces a climate crisis and an ascendant far right. Are these trends related? How does the far right think about the environment\, and what openings does the coming crisis present for them? \n\n\n\nThis incisive new book traces the long history of far-right environmentalism and explores how it is adapting to the contemporary world. It argues that the extreme right\, after years of denying the reality of climate change\, are now showing serious signs of reversing their strategy. A new generation of far-right activists has realized that impending environmental catastrophe represents their best chance yet for a return to relevance. In reality\, however\, their noxious blend of conspiracy\, hatred and violence is no solution at all: it is the ‘eco-socialism of fools’. Only a real commitment to climate justice can save us and stop the far right in its tracks. \n\n\n\nNo-one interested in the struggle against right-wing extremism and the crusade for climate justice can afford to miss this trenchant critique of burgeoning ecofascism. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nSam Moore and Alex Roberts are researchers\, anti-fascist activists and the hosts of 12 Rules for WHAT\, a podcast about the far right. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\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/the-rise-of-ecofascism-with-12-rules-for-what-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FK8Y6BrWQAEVTHj.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220406T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220406T203000 DTSTAMP:20220307T144822Z CREATED:20220307T144820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220307T144822Z UID:40112-1649271600-1649277000@housmans.live SUMMARY:A Normal Life with Freedom Press [online event] DESCRIPTION:A Normal Life is the autobiography of Vassilis Palaiokostas\, known to the public as the “Greek Robin Hood\,” to police as “The Uncatchable.” His is an illegalist existence lived in defiance of the police and of the state\, and for decades\, it has been a life lived as a fugitive. \n\n\n\nIn Greece he has become a household name\, a modern folk hero of sorts\, taking millions in bank raids — including the famous Kalambaka heist\, Greece’s biggest ever — and ransoming CEOs whilst distributing his gains to those who needed it. But he is most famous for his prison breakouts — infamously escaping the high-security wing of Korydallos Prison by helicopter. \n\n\n\nTwice. \n\n\n\nVassilis Palaiokostas is hated by the authorities\, deemed a terrorist\, his freedom a continued insult to the Greek State. Now his memoir\, an instant bestseller in Greece\, has been translated to English for the first time so he can tell his story in his own words. He does not offer any mealy-mouthed\, “socially acceptable” justifications for his actions\, but honestly elaborates his dreams and their totality. \n\n\n\nA Normal Life is a gripping account of life on the run and in jail\, of car chases\, daring escapades and the camaraderie of the bandit. It is also the story of his motivations. \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with Freedom Press \n\n\n\nFreedom is Britain’s oldest anarchist press \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\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/a-normal-life-with-freedom-press-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/A-Normal-Life-Cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210907T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210907T203000 DTSTAMP:20210811T104258Z CREATED:20210806T143259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210811T104258Z UID:34413-1631041200-1631046600@housmans.live SUMMARY:Ill Feelings: Stories of Unexplained Illness\, with Alice Hattrick in conversation with Abi Palmer [online event] DESCRIPTION:A moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness. \n\n\n\nIn 1995 Alice’s mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME\, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mother’s and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later.  \n\n\n\nIll Feelings blends memoir\, medical history\, biography and literary non-fiction to uncover both of their case histories\, and branches out into the records of ill health that women have written about in diaries and letters. \n\n\n\nTheir cast of characters includes Virginia Woolf and Alice James\, the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson\, John Ruskin’s lost love Rose la Touche\, the artist Louise Bourgeois and the nurse Florence Nightingale. \n\n\n\nSuffused with a generative\, transcendent rage\, Alice Hattrick’s genre-bending debut is a moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness. Alice will be joined in conversation with Abi Palmer\, author of Santatorium. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAlice Hattrick (c) Jacques Testard\n\n\n\nAlice Hattrick‘s criticism and interviews have appeared in publications such as frieze magazine\, ArtReview and The White Review. Alice’s work has most recently been included in Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art: HEALTH (ed. Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz\, 2020) and Mine Searching Yours (Forma\, 2020). They are the co-producer of Access Docs for Artists\, a resource for disabled and/or chronically ill artists\, curators and writers\, made in collaboration with artists Leah Clements and Lizzy Rose. In 2016\, they were shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize. Ill Feelings is their first book. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbi Palmer (c) Faith Aylward and Mia Maxwell\n\n\n\nAbi Palmer is an writer\, artist and filmmaker. Her work often uses multisensory interaction and multiple forms. Notable artworks Crip Casino – an interactive gambling arcade parodying the wellness industry and institutionalised spaces – has been exhibited at Tate Modern\, Somerset House and Wellcome Collection. Her debut book Sanatorium (Penned in the Margins\, 2020) is a fragmented memoir\, jumping between luxury thermal pool\, and blue inflatable bathtub. It was shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize. In 2020 she was awarded an Artangel ‘Thinking Time’ Grant to address the current pandemic. Her current work explores themes of access\, isolation and the urgency of climate change\, through attempting to capture\, distil and convey the entire outside world into small ritualistic performances and sculpture for her indoor cats.www.abipalmer.com \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Ill Feelings then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\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/ill-feelings-stories-of-unexplained-illness-with-alice-hattrick-in-conversation-with-abi-palmer-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ill-feelings-proper-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210609T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210609T210000 DTSTAMP:20210607T143657Z CREATED:20210517T153529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210607T143657Z UID:32628-1623268800-1623272400@housmans.live SUMMARY:The Marks Left on Her - Di Lebowitz in conversation with Minna Salami **POSTPONED** DESCRIPTION:**Due to unforeseen circumstances\, this event has now been postponed and will be part of our autumn events programme. More information to follow soon** \n\n\n\nIn The Marks Left on Her\, Di Lebowitz explores her experiences growing up with mixed heritage in her Hong Kongese family and attempting to navigate a world in which she is misunderstood and mistreated. What began as a means to self-examine after the trauma of a sexual assault grew almost organically into a collection of scribbled-down memories that had been burrowed deep within. The book opens up many important questions about mixed heritage\, parental relationships\, and why the world calls for so many women to be forged by pain.  \n\n\n\nDi will be in conversation with Minna Salami\, internationally-acclaimed feminist author and blogger\, to discuss their books and the importance of intersectional perspectives in feminist spaces and movements\, including the Me Too movement in which Di was inspired to share her story.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDi Lebowitz was born and raised in Hong Kong but spent the majority of her adult life in the UK. She is of both Jewish and Hong Kongese descent. The Marks Left on Her is her debut novel.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMultiple award-winning blogger and founder of MsAfropolitan\, Minna Salami is an author\, feminist theorist and lecturer. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed book Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone\, a critical collection of essays exploring universal ideas with an Africa-centred\, decolonial and feminist perspective and translated into several languages. She is co-director of the feminist movement\, Activate\, and a Senior Research Associate at Perspectiva. She sits on the advisory board of the African Feminist Initiative at Pennsylvania State University and the editorial board of the Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Sahel and the Emerge platform. \n\n\n\n\nBuy the book “The Marks Left on Her”\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/the-marks-left-on-her-di-lebowitz-in-conversation-with-minna-salami-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/The-Marks-Left-on-Her-cover-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210526T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210526T203000 DTSTAMP:20210526T172820Z CREATED:20210331T144514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T172820Z UID:28924-1622055600-1622061000@housmans.live SUMMARY:Not Quite Right for Us: Celebrating flipped eye and Speaking Volumes\, with Sharmilla Beezmohun and Colin Grant DESCRIPTION:Housmans is very proud to announce a joint event with flipped eye and Speaking Volumes to celebrate the publication of Not Quite Right for Us\, an anthology featuring 40 international voices talking about outsider-ness. \n\n\n\nThis event is also part of flipped eyes’s 20th anniversary celebrations. Not Quite Right for Us is published in collaboration with Speaking Volumes\, who are also celebrating their 10th anniversary this year. \n\n\n\nSpanning eight thematic areas (childhood\, family\, friends\, work\, travel\, love\, yesterday/today and today/tomorrow)\, the anthology features a huge breadth of contributions\, from autobiographical essays to a short story translated from Bengali\, from fictional email exchanges between authors and editors\, to extracts from theatrical plays and mythological poems. \n\n\n\nIn Not Quite Right for Us new and established writers evoke their own experiences of outsiderness—and defiance against it. Contributors include Kerry Hudson\, Xiaolu Guo\, Aminatta Forna\, Colin Grant\, Nick Makoha\, Byron Vincent\, Rishi Dastidar\, Johny Pitts and Rafeef Ziadah and a foreword by Linton Kwesi Johnson. \n\n\n\nSharmilla Beezmohun\, co-founder of Speaking Volumes and editor of Not Quite Right for Us\, will be in conversation with author and contributor to the anthology Colin Grant. The conversation will be chaired by Mitch Albert\, director of fiction and non-fiction for flipped eye. \n\n\n\nAbout flipped eye \n\n\n\nWinning global acclaim for being a champion of compelling work\, flipped eye publishing has been publishing affordable culture from the margins of British society since 2001. As an incubator for talent\, flipped eye focuses on cultivating potential\, as opposed to producing rapid output\, with publications a manifestation of long-term dialogue between editors and authors over several years. Award-winning authors who were discovered\, developed or launched by flipped eye include Roger Robinson\, Warsan Shire\, Inua Ellams\, Malika Booker\, Miriam Nash\, Nick Makoha and more. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharmilla Beezmohun is the co-founder of Speaking Volumes Live Literature Productions in 2010. Previous work includes eleven years as Deputy Editor of Wasafiri\, the Magazine of International Contemporary Writing\, plus stints at Virago and Heinemann’s African and Caribbean Writers Series among others. She edited Continental Shifts\, Shifts in Perception: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe (2016) and co-edited A Meeting of the Continents: The International Book Fair of Black Radical and Third World Books (2005). She is a Trustee of Carcanet Publishers\, Modern Poetry in Translation magazine and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColin Grant is a non-fiction writer\, historian and broadcaster. His books include: Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation\, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week (2019); A Smell of Burning\, a history of epilepsy and Sunday Times Book of the Year (2016); the memoir Bageye at the Wheel\, shortlisted for the Pen/Ackerley Prize (2013). Grant has written and directed several BBC drama documentaries including A Fountain of Tears: The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca; and A History of the N Word. He is the director of the new platform WritersMosaic\, launching in April 2021. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \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/not-quite-right-for-us-celebrating-flipped-eye-and-speaking-volumes-with-sharmilla-beezmohun-and-colin-grant/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Flipped.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T203000 DTSTAMP:20210407T182902Z CREATED:20210212T163119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T182902Z UID:29303-1617822000-1617827400@housmans.live SUMMARY:Come Join Our Disease: Sam Byers in conversation with Juliet Jacques [online event] DESCRIPTION:We are very pleased to announce Sam Byers will be joining Juliet Jacques at this Housmans online event to discuss Sam’s latest novel\, Come join Our Disease (published March 18\, Faber). \nThis darkly comic story follows Maya\, a homeless radical who’s given an opportunity to re-enter society through raising a tech-company’s philanthropic profile. Marred by the oppressive standards of image and ‘perfection’\, Maya -through obscene images and a revolution of sickness-  aims to liberate herself and others from society’s grip.  It’s a tale of resistance\, rebellion and questions what it means to protest against the norm. \nEven more relevant to the past year in particular\, Come Join Our Disease crucially covers a humane view on loneliness and isolation\, the forces of hostility between people and how sickness can be used as a vehicle to examine these and speak to rebellion. \nSpeakers \nSam Byers‘ writing has appeared in Granta\, the New York Times and the Times Literary Supplement. His debut novel Idiopathy was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize and was the winner of a Betty Trask Award. His second novel\, Perfidious Albion was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction\, and shortlisted for the Encore Prize. \nJuliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published two books\, most recently Trans: A Memoir (Verso\, 2015) – her short story collection Variations will be out on Influx Press in June 2021. Her essays\, criticism and journalism have appeared in many publications\, from The London Review of Books to Tribune\, and her short films have screened in galleries and festivals worldwide. She hosts Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm – a radio programme that looks at the arts in their social\, cultural\, political and historical contexts. She teaches at the Royal College of Art\, City Lit and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \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/come-join-our-disease-sam-byers-in-conversation-with-juliet-jacques-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Sam-byers.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T203000 DTSTAMP:20210325T191035Z CREATED:20210225T170248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210325T191035Z UID:31224-1616698800-1616704200@housmans.live SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Disturbing the Body\, with Abi Hynes and Irenosen Okojie DESCRIPTION:Three feminist bookshops have joined forces with Boudicca Press to celebrate ​Disturbing The Body​\, a subversive collection of speculative memoir about misbehaving bodies. \n\n\n\nDisturbing The Body Body ​will launch across three nights\, with​ Lighthouse\, Five Leaves ​and Housmans​ bookshops each hosting a new pairing of writers. \n\n\n\nThe ambitious three-part launch reflects the creativity and character of radical bookshops and the scope of this phenomenal anthology. Taking readers on a bookish journey the length of the country\, it exemplifies theways indies have rallied for each other and for independent presses during the pandemic. \n\n\n\nThe three-part launch picks out common threads from the book to give you the following: \n\n\n\n23rd March with Lighthouse (Edinburgh): Chikọdili Emelumadu and Verity Holloway focus on using genre (horror) to explore women’s bodily experiences. Tickets for this event here. \n\n\n\n24th with Five Leaves (Nottingham): Louise Kenward and Laura Elliott\, on storytelling that explores health\, medicine and disability. Tickets for this event here. \n\n\n\n25th Housmans (London): Irenosen Okojie and Abi Hynes draw on their stories\, the uncanny and fantastical\, to explore feminism and body politics. For tickets for this event\, please see below. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAbi Hynes is a drama and fiction writer based in Manchester. Her plays have been staged in venues across the UK\, and she is currently working on original audio drama and TV projects. Her short stories have been widely published\, most recently in Black Static\, Lucent Dreaming and Neon Magazine\, and she was shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Novella-in-Flash Award in 2018. She won the Cambridge Short Story Prize in 2020.Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Observer\, The Guardian\, the BBC and the Huffington Post\, amongst other publications. Her short story collection Speak Gigantular\, published by Jacaranda Books\, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize\, the Jhalak Prize\, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her new collection of stories\, Nudibranch published by Little Brown’s Dialogue Books\, was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. She is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for Fiction for her story\, ‘Grace Jones’. http://www.irenosenokojie.com Twitter: @IrenosenOkojieAbout Boudicca PressBoudicca Press is an independent publisher who celebrates the strength\, courage and literary talents of women. They publish weird\, literary and relationship fiction by women in the UK. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are three available tickets for this event: if you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please consider buying a solidarity ticket at £3. There’s also a free access ticket for students and unwaged comrades. \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-disturbing-the-body-with-abi-hynes-and-irenosen-okojie/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Feminist event,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DisturbingThe-BodyBanner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201013T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201013T200000 DTSTAMP:20201020T153842Z CREATED:20200914T114016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201020T153842Z UID:14304-1602615600-1602619200@housmans.live SUMMARY:Settling the World: M. John Harrison in conversation with Gary Budden (online event) DESCRIPTION:Housmans is pleased to welcome sci-fi supremo M. John Harrison to our first digital event in collaboration with indie publishers Comma Press and Influx Press. \nConsidered one of the most important stylists of modern fantasy and science fiction working today\, and a pioneer of the New Wave\, award-winning author M. John Harrison can count amongst his fans the likes of Neil Gaiman\, Iain Banks and Robert Macfarlane. \nThroughout his career\, M. John’s writing has defied categorisation\, building worlds both unreal and all-too real\, overlapping and interlocking with each other. His stories are replete with fissures and portals into parallel dimensions\, unidentified countries and lost lands. \nHis latest collection\, Settling the World\, is a selection of stories\, drawn from 50 years of writing (1979-2020)\, follows backstreet occultists\, amateur philosophers\, down-and-outs or refugees\, and explores our relationship with ‘the other’ in microscopic detail. What the characters have in common is they share in Harrison’s rejection of the idea that the world\, or our understanding of it\, could ever be settled. \nWe have 50 signed copies of Settling the World which will be allocated to ticket holders on a first come first served basis. \nAttendees will be emailed the zoom link the morning of the event: please check your spam folder. If you have not received the link\, please contact shop[at]housmans[dot]com  \nTHE SPEAKERS \nM. John Harrison is the author of eleven novels (including In Viriconium\, The Course of the Heart and Light)\, as well as four previous short story collections\, two graphic novels\, and collaborations with Jane Johnson\, writing as Gabriel King. He won the Boardman Tasker Award for Climbers (1989)\, the James Tiptree Jr Award for Light (2002) and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Nova Swing (2007). He reviews fiction for The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement\, and lives in Shropshire. \nGary Budden is a writer\, editor and co-founder of the award winning Influx Press. He is the author of the books Hollow Shores\, Judderman (as D.A. Northwood)\, and The White Heron Beneath the Reactor with artist Maxim Griffin. London Incognita is forthcoming in 2020. \n*If you are unable to pay the entry price\, please email Housmans Bookshop* \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/settling-the-world-m-john-harrison-in-conversation-with-gary-budden-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/9781912697281.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200228T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200228T203000 DTSTAMP:20200224T182220Z CREATED:20200224T182220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T182220Z UID:11389-1582916400-1582921800@housmans.live SUMMARY:Stormlight Book Launch with Jan Woolf DESCRIPTION:Riversmeet Press invites you to the Housmans launch of Stormlight by Jan Woolf \nStories – short and long- setting ordinary people against big themes; love\, war\, loss\, contemporary politics and the search for fulfilment. Like the author’s first collection Fugues on a Funny Bone they are funny\, witty and acerbic as well as serious. \nStormlight includes her Royal Court short play You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know examining the Blair legacy. Stories range from a Rambler’s Christmas day walk\, a childless senior sneaking into a mothers’ and babies’ only film\, a bitter family argument over the EU referendum\, management consultant wonkery\, and the down but not quite out of homeless street life. All are rooted in experience and activism. \nThe evenings readings will include Jan’s short play ‘You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know’ first performed at the Royal Court. Guest actors will include Alan Franks. \nWine included. Cash sales only of Stormlight on the night. \n***FREE EVENT*** \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/stormlight-book-launch-with-jan-woolf/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jan-woolf.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200205T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200205T203000 DTSTAMP:20220328T153829Z CREATED:20200102T155304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T153829Z UID:9232-1580929200-1580934600@housmans.live SUMMARY:Poetry Against Homelessness DESCRIPTION:We’re very excited to welcome back New River Press for an evening of wild and inspiring poetry and music performances by people who have experienced homelessness and the poets who have tutored them.\n\nIt’s in celebration of the project I AM NOT WHO YOU THINK I AM. Since June ‘19 New River Press have teamed up with the novelist Miranda Gold\, who started a writing group at Crisis Skylight. New River became involved and have since been facilitating workshops and one-to-one surgeries with top poets lending their time to spread genius. Out of this New River are editing an anthology of poetry by people who have experienced homelessness due Winter 2020.\n\nTheir events with Crisis so far have been electric. Tighter and richer each time. Watching this most incredible group of poets soar is like nothing else. Not to be missed.\n\nYou can read more about the project here:\nhttp://www.thenewriverpress.com/journal/2019/10/16/i-am-not-who-you-think-i-am\n\nPlease note that tickets are Standard £3 (value redeemable against purchase)\, Unwaged £1 (value redeemable against purchase) and Solidarity £5.\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/poetry-against-homelessness/ CATEGORIES:In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/new-river-press.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190722T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190722T203000 DTSTAMP:20190617T115442Z CREATED:20190617T115254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190617T115442Z UID:622-1563822000-1563827400@housmans.live SUMMARY:Who Was Radclyffe Hall? DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Pride month\, Housmans and Lon-art.org are pleased to present a very special event on LGBTQ+ icon and author Radclyffe Hall. \nHall expert Jana Funke will discuss Hall’s life and place in LGBTQ+ history\, focusing initially on Hall’s visionary LGBTQ novel The Well of Loneliness and its reception both at the time of publication (e.g. the censorship trial and obscenity charges) and its legacies throughout the 20th and 21st century. \nJana will show why the novel needs to be seen as part of both lesbian\, trans and bisexual history and explain why it’s such a divisive and controversial piece of work\, in part due to its use of sexological ideas and racist and classist elements. \nThe talk will also explore Hall’s work beyond The Well of Loneliness to give people a sense of her ambitions and interests as a writer beyond this single novel. \nJana will be drawing on her fascinating archival research on the Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge Papers at the Harry Ransom Centre in Austin throughout\, which led to the publication of her book The World And Other Unpublished Works by Radclyffe Hall (Manchester University Press\, 2017). \nSpeaker \nDr Jana Funke is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on early twentieth-century literature and science\, the history of sexuality\, and queer feminist studies. Books include The World and Other Unpublished Works by Radclyffe Hall (2016)\, Sex\, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture (2011\, co-edited with Ben Davies) and Sculpture\, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature\, Culture and the Arts (2018\, co-edited with Jen Grove). Jana is committed to engaging wider audiences with her research on gender and sexuality. Past projects includes the Wellcome Collection’s Sexology Season\, the Transvengers and Transformations projects (with Gendered Intelligence) and Orlando: The Queer Element (with Clay & Diamonds). \nTickets available here\nThis event is a collaboration between Housmans and Lon-art.org \nLon-art is an organisation that opens a window into herstories\, art\, culture and languages through\, exhibitions\, talks\, education workshops and community events. You can follow them on social media here: \nhttps://www.instagram.com/lonartorg/ \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Lonartorg/ \nhttps://twitter.com/Lonartorg \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/who-was-radclyffe-hall/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/LA_SH19_RadclyffeHall_1x1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190710T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190710T200000 DTSTAMP:20190704T133508Z CREATED:20190614T144611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190704T133508Z UID:605-1562785200-1562788800@housmans.live SUMMARY:Influx Press Presents: 'Activism\, Subversion and Writing Outsiders' with Niven Govinden\, Wayne Holloway and Juliet Jacques DESCRIPTION:Influx Press authors Niven Govinden\, Wayne Holloway are joined by Juliet Jacques to discuss the interaction between literature\, political activism\, subversion and marginalised communities. \nNiven will be reading from his new book\, This Brutal House\, a beautiful novel set in the fiery protest of the LGBTQ+ New York community. Wayne will be reading from Bindlestiff – his incisive exploration of race\, violence and storytelling in America. Juliet Jacques\, author of Trans: A Memoir\, will chair what is sure to be an illuminating\, entertaining and thought provoking event. \nTickets available here\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/influx-press-presents-activism-subversion-and-writing-outsiders-with-niven-govinden-wayne-holloway-and-juliet-jacques/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/InfluxPress.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190705T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190705T203000 DTSTAMP:20190611T144728Z CREATED:20190611T144728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190611T144728Z UID:590-1562353200-1562358600@housmans.live SUMMARY:Robert Lundquist: After Mozart (Heroin On 5th Street) DESCRIPTION:Housmans and New River Press are extremely proud to present the London launch of Robert Lundquist’s After Mozart (Heroin On 5th Street) – a collection comprising of five decades of work\, previously only available in magazine archives\, anthologies\, and out-of-print chapbooks.  A lost genius\, come and see Lundquist give a very rare London performance. \nSpeakers \nRobert Lundquist was one of the rising stars of the Santa Cruz renaissance. By the early 1970s he was published in the Paris Review\, anthologized in Raymond Carver’s magazine Quarry West\, and listed in Rolling Stone Magazine’s ‘Best 100 American Poets’. This is Lundquist’s first major work. Discover a lost genius in these pages. \nThese poems were written in bursts over five decades. From 1969 to 1973\, from 1980 to 1985\, and from 2014 to 2018. Lundquist has an extraordinarily sensitive voice deeply engaged with the works of García Lorca\, César Vallejo\, Paul Celan\, James Wight\, Wallace Stevens\, and John Ashbery. He addresses themes of love\, loss\, alcoholism\, and emotional pain. He meditates on death\, romance\, and beauty with wild formal experiments and a visceral\, surreal vision that is all his own. \nCentral to his poetry is the changing spirit of Downtown L.A. The poet was raised and has lived his entire life there. His grandmother was a waitress in Union Station and his father an undercover policeman. Some darker chapters are inspired by a stint living next to skid row. The neighbourhoods of DTLA – the automobiles\, diners\, bars\, wildlife\, and characters they contain – are evoked here with a noir melancholy and hallucinatory brilliance. \nMORE POETS TBC \nReviews \nAs a poet\, Lundquist finds an organising myth in water. Water manifests itself as the giver of life\, the bringer of death and the keeper of time\, never taking on just one role and often embodying all three at once. It is a pretty formal move on his part\, considering the experimentation and autonomy of form that otherwise characterise his work. Also\, it is a strikingly consistent vision\, given the five decades behind these poems. \nNevertheless\, it is the many faces and shapes of water that inform his poems: sea water\, shower water and tides; water’s bodily derivatives\, tears and sweat and saliva and blood; its darker derivatives\, waters that drown you\, alcohol or heroin liquefying in a spoon; fermented or sugared water like Jack Daniel’s and Coca Cola. Lundquist is constantly seeking it\, he looks for it everywhere and he sees it in everything. \nThe ancient practice of looking for a source of water in unlikely places is known as water divination\, or water witching. The one who does it is called a dowser. And Lundquist is skilful dowser in these poems. He conducts his water witching among the stony buildings\, the cracked pavements\, the smoggy air of his neighbourhood\, with patience and poetic steadiness. \nMersiha Bruncevic\, 3AM Magazine \n  \nTickets available here\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/robert-lundquist-after-mozart-heroin-on-5th-street/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.live/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/robertlundquistcover.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR