Join us for a night of exploring what it means to have ‘heritage’ and how to perform/ undo it through spoken words and poetry performances.

We are absolutely thrilled to have Anthony Anaxagorou in the haus reading from his newest collection (out in November) “Heritage Aesthetics”. In these daring and sonorous poems, Anaxagorou conducts a researched unpacking of two countries whose dividing lines of a colonial past are still visible and felt. Uniquely engaged with the complexities of Cyprus and the diasporic experience, these poems map both an island’s public history alongside a person’s private reckoning. They offer a ferocious and uncompromising look towards the damaging historical structures that have led to now. Fearless, intensely honest and hopeful, Heritage Aesthetics merges Anthony’s gift for performance and his brilliant experimentation with form to create a vivid insistence to communicate a self in the world.

We will also be having Tom Sastry reading from his newest collection "You have no normal country to return to". The collection explores how our emotional landscapes are shaped by national myths and the more personal stories we tell about ourselves. It is a book about discovering that what was once taken for granted was never really there; a guidebook for an age of “enchantments collapsing on themselves”.
Tom’s earlier collection A Man's House Catches Fire (2019) was highly commended
in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize.
His pamphlet Complicity (2016) was a Poetry School Book of the Year and a Poetry
Book Society pamphlet choice.

Tickets are £5, which include a glass of wine or soft drink and £2 off the book.

Doors open at 18:45, the event will start at 19:00

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