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“By turns lyrical, acerbic and bitingly humorous, Life in Transit, is attuned to the peculiar loneliness of life in neoliberal Britain.” – Mark Fisher (author of Capitalist Realism)

Life in Transit by Sam Berkson out now.

Influx Press, the small indie publishers behind the bestselling ‘Local Interest’ book of 2012, Acquired for Development By… A Hackney Anthology have released their second book, Life in Transit.

Life in Transit is a new poetry collection from acclaimed spoken word artist Sam Berkson.

Influx Press commissioned Sam (known as Angry Sam in the live poetry scene) to write a series of poems set on, or about public transport. The result was a wry, intelligent and witty exploration of the travel experience in neoliberal Britain.

In other news, I went for a walk this morning past the old Duke of Wellington on Morning Lane – now Pringle – and found this:

It’s not a joke. That’s really what they wrote on top of the big sheep.

Anyway, don’t forget that China M and Suzanne are at Sutton House this Tuesday at 7pm. Get your tickets in advance from the bookshop to ensure you definitely get a seat. Email us or pop into the bookshop to reserve them.

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China Mieville in conversation with Suzanne Moore
Tuesday 16th October at 7pm
Tickets – £5
Event held at Sutton House

Sarah Wise uncovers twelve shocking stories, untold for over a century, which reveal the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle classes – their sexuality, fears of inherited madness, financial greed and fraudulenc

e – and chillingly evoke the black motives at the heart of the phenomenon of the ‘inconvenient person’.

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-doctors in Victorian England – Sarah Wise
11th October at 7pm
Event will be held at Sutton House - 2 And 4 Homerton High Street, E9 6JQ
Tickets £5

Book your tickets now for this event on Wednesday – email us at info@pagesofhackney.co.uk

Who Rules South Africa?

With authors Paul Holden and Martin Plaut, chaired by Andrew Feinstein

5th September at 7pm

Tickets £3

South Africa is a country poorly understood in the wider world. There are two main views of the country that persist in the international consciousness and which are often propagated by South Africans themselves. One view holds that after the end of apartheid South Africa’s problems were at an end. The other claims that a coterie of criminals is turning one of Africa’s few success stories into another Zimbabwe. Both are inaccurate...

This book provides a balanced look at the country and points to the real centres of power, which do not include its government. This extraordinary book is the true story of post-apartheid South Africa.

Martin Plaut is the Africa editor of the BBC World Service News and has been reporting on continent for more than 25 years. He has written widely on the Horn of Africa and southern Africa.

Paul Holden is a South African historian, researcher, writer, and resident of Hackney. He has published three books to date, including two critically acclaimed books on the South African ‘Arms Deal.’ Holden currently works alongside former ANC MP and whistleblower Andrew Feinstein investigating corruption in the global arms trade.

Andrew Feinstein is a former African National Congress MP who served in South Africa’s first democratic parliament. Feinstein resigned from Parliament after his efforts to investigate South Africa’s notorious ‘Arms Deal’ were blocked by party chiefs, which he discussed at length in his best-selling memoir, After the Party. In 2011, Feinstein published The Shadow World, the first in-depth study of the global arms trade in over thirty years. The book was a critical success, garnishing positive reviews in media outlets around the world. He is the co-founder of Corruption Watch, an NGO dedicated to investigating corruption around the world.

The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London’s Olympic State
Thursday, 19th July at 7pm
Tickets £3

The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London’s Olympic State brings together a body of work that has emerged in response to the arrival of the Olympics in East London.

Artists, writers, film makers, academics, photographers and activists intervene in the dominant discourse, language and images of regeneration and the Games. The book examines both the political economy of the mega-event and the silenced history of Lower Lea valley, making a powerful case against the politics of erasure and the corporatisation of urban space. Issues of land grab, displacement, military urbanism and exceptional measures of legal protection are explored through essays, images, poetry, fiction and installations.

Join us for an evening  with Hackney based artist Hilary Powell and writer and researcher Isaac Marrero and a selection of contributors including Jude Rosen, Andrew Bailes, Alberto Duman and Alistair Siddons.

The book is a real Hackney production – published and designed in Hackney Wick,and with a cover by Stephen Gill and Hackney Wick (a collaboration between photographer and earth in the photographic series ‘Buried’).

http://www.theartofdissent.net

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A People’s History of London
Lindsey German and John Rees come to Pages
Wednesday 4th July at 7pm
Tickets £3

A People’s History of London, by Lindsey German and John Rees is a look at London from Roman times t0 today. It is not the story of kings and princes, or of the rich and powerful, but of the people of the city who have time and again campaigned and fought to make the city a better place. Its story is of defeating the fascists at Cable St in 1936, of the Peasants’ Revolt which was played out in London, of the young immigrant women matchgirls who struck in 1888, and of the squatters and campaigners today.

The authors have lived in Hackney for many years. They are both active socialists and campaigners in the Stop the War Coalition.

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