October 2018
Event: Poetry Launch: Nafeesa Hamid & Rupinder Kaur
Join us as we celebrate the publication of two exciting new collections by West Midlands poets from South Asian backgrounds (in association with Verve Poetry Press).
Find out more »November 2018
Event: Double Launch: Geraldine Snell & Sian Robinson Davies
Join us for a double launch of Geraldine Snell's overlove and Siân Robinson Davies' Naked and Practical.
Find out more »Event: Exhibition Opening – Outsider: Photography by Hannah White
Amidst the chaos of Brexit, Hannah White wanted to explore a different side of Europe, one informed by the views and experiences of those who live there. She carried out her research by bike. Cycling from Roscoff to Geneva, Rome to Athens, Belfast to Dublin (with another tour planned for Germany in November this year) interviewing and photographing the people and places she encountered. The exhibited photographs are of the landscapes she has passed through. The accompanying words describe her ongoing journey towards a greater understanding of Europe now and what it means to be European. You can find out more at Outsider.
Find out more »Event: Insomnia: Marina Benjamin in conversation with Colin Grant
With her new memoir Insomnia, Marina Benjamin has produced an unsettling account of an unsettling condition that treats our inability to sleep not as a disorder, but as an existential experience that can electrify our understanding of ourselves, and of creativity and love.
Find out more »Event: Radical Essex with Gillian Darley and Ken Worpole
An often maligned county, Essex’s recent history has been the subject of many stereotypes. A new book, Radical Essex, seeks to tell another story, exploring the dynamic relationship between London’s East End and radical experiments in living, whether in rural enclaves or on the desolate marshes. This is a story of socialist and anarchist land colonies, Christian and Tolstoyan retreats, and the county as the home of modernist architecture in Britain and model industrial communities. Two of the book’s authors, Gillian Darley & Ken Worpole, discuss the many utopian experiments in living to be re-discovered in the county’s radical history, now too often forgotten.
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