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Reclaim the City of London: MayDay Rooms and Rebel Tours workshop and walking tour

Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
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Join MayDay Rooms and Rebel Tours for a critical exploration of London’s financial district, examining the banks and insurance companies complicit in financing weapons, fossil fuels, border violence and genocide, while reflecting on the long histories of resistance to corporate power in the City. The event will take place in two parts: an afternoon workshop […]

MAGAZINE LAUNCH: WEEKEND

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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COME AND CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF A BOLD NEW POETRY MAGAZINE AT HOUSMANS. FEATURING LUKE ROBERTS, HARRIET ROSE AND OTHERS. This is a free event, please book your tickets below. Feel free to BYOB. 🙂 Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on […]

Research is Poetry

Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, E1 5QJ
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Research is Poetry: Knots presents our first night of Research is Poetry, hosted at Pelican House on June 26th from 6-9 pm.  This will be fundraising for our Co-op registering fee, so we are able to do more noise nights, develop long form productions, and host community workshops, from an art-workers led perspective. If you’re […]

Club Commons x Feminist Library Book Launch

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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Join us for an intergenerational queer conversation weaving together archival memory, nightlife history, and collective futures.  This evening brings together three icons who shaped London’s lesbian and queer scenes from the 1980s and 90s to today: Katherine Griffiths, DJ and researcher who participated in grassroots lesbian nightlife in London through the 80s and 90s; Yvonne […]

POETRY READING: ELLEN RENTON LAUNCHES ‘YOU AND YOURS’

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Join us for an evening of poetry to mark the launch of Ellen Renton’s new pamphlet. You and Yours:Swinging across timelines and from the mundane to the surreal, You and Yours is a study in grief: how it exists beyond seismic losses in the stories we inherit, in shifting friendships, and in uncertain landscapes. These […]

DREAMS AND GHOSTS WITH DOMINIC PETTMAN & EVERYDAY ANALYSIS

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Join 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 […]

BOOK LAUNCH: KILL BILLIONAIRE with ANDERS LUSTGARTEN

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Kill Billionaire: The Riotous Revenge Caper You’ve Been Waiting for Kill Billionaire is the best sort of political thriller: gripping, revenge fueled and unapologetically radical in its politics, discussing climate change and the elite. When her home is destroyed in wildfires, fourteen-year-old Australian outback genius Kayla Connolly decides to hunt down the culprits of climate […]

HOUSING READING SERIES: HUW LEMMEY IN CONVERSATION WITH JULIET JACQUES

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Aren’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?FINALLY! 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 […]

HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES: JD HOWSE

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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It starts with the Buggery Act of 1533. Or perhaps the arrest of Eleanor Rykener. Or perhaps the execution of James Pratt and John Smith. The truism goes that queer people have always been here, but for as long as there have been written records of us those records have dealt with our suppression, criminalisation, […]

BOOK LAUNCH: FLOYDS GONE by Jacob A. Smith

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Come celebrate the launch of a brilliant and daring new short story collection published by eidolon inkJacob A. Smith is launching his debut story collection, Floyds Gone, at Housmans Bookshop! Please join us on July 22nd to celebrate the release of his book. All author and publisher profits from the evening go to Medical Aid […]

HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES: JAMES BYRNE

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Join us for another evening of cutting edge poetry.For 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 […]

BOOK LAUNCH: INTERNATIONAL FREAK ROBIN FARQUHARSON AND THE DREAM OF PSYCHEDELIC REVOLT

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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M. SYD ROSEN AND OWEN HATHERLEY DISCUSS THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF COUNTERCULTURAL ICON ROBIN FARQUHARSON‘Rosen is an intergenerational talent. That is, he seems to move effortlessly across decades, from dark matter to illumination; gleaning, recovering, challenging, making new.’ Iain SinclairBorn in 1930 into a privileged South African family, Robin Farquharson was part of a […]

‘FLAMBOYANCE’ WITH JACK PARLETT IN CONVERSATION WITH PETER SCALPELLO

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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JACK PARLETT AND CELEBRATED POET PETER SCALPELLO DISCUSS ‘FLAMBOYANCE’ AND HOW IT IGNITES EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES, FROM ART AND ENTERTAINMENT TO RITUAL AND PROTEST.Flamboyance is Jack Parlett’s follow up to his acclaimed Fire Island (A Housmans bestseller of 2022). This new book has all the qualities one has come to expect of Jack’s […]

Book Launch: Liquid Reflections with Liliane Lijn

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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We 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. Liliane Lijn is an artist who needs little introduction. Her stirring, often ostentatious and always poetic works are dotted […]