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"For a while now goblins have infiltrated the cultural zeitgeist, from goblin mode to feral aesthetics. Now writer Jen Calleja is taking this one step further with a full immersion into Goblinhood. Intrigued? Get yourself down to the launch of her new book exploring goblin theory in all its playful mischief."
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A event held at Bookhaus on Wednesday 23rd October. The event starts at 18:00.
We're delighted to be welcoming one of our favourite writers, Jen Calleja to the shop to launch her latest book Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode.
Goblinhood presents us with a series of essays and poems that playfully, artfully propound Jen Calleja’s theory of ‘goblin hood’— a theory that takes in all aspects of pop culture from film, tv, literature and art as well as the author’s personal and original examinations of grief, lust, family histories and the physical fact of living in the world as it is. Goblinhood is a perpetually and variously curious, visceral addition to Calleja’s remarkable oeuvre.
Jen Calleja says: “This book is who I am. It obliquely (and un-chicly) charts
the last 5 years of my life, where so much came bubbling to the surface of
the bog. I really wanted and needed to write this book, and I'm so grateful
to Nina and Will at Rough Trade Books for publishing both my pamphlet Goblins
back in 2020 and now Goblinhood, and for not once doubting what I was trying
to do.”
Jen will be in conversation with Jack Young, a writer and participatory artist living in Bristol. He writes hybrid work exploring land justice, queer ecologies and hauntings of landscape and archive. His debut chapbook is URTH (Big White Shed:2022), he co-edited the book Haunting Ashton Court: A Creative Handbook for Collective History-Making (2023) and his most recent pamphlet is in the country garden/the end of england (SPAM Press:2023). Other writing has been published by Somesuch Stories, TANK Magazine, Lunate Journal, Caught by the River, 3 A:M, Hinterland Magazine and ENTROPY, among others. He also co-hosts the literary podcast Tender Buttons in partnership with Storysmith Bookshop. Recent guests include Garth Greenwel, Max Porter, Bhanu Kapil, Lola Olufemi, Octavia Bright and Preti Taneja, among many others.
This event has free wine, and ticketholders will receive £2 off the book. Presented by bookhaus.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Goblinhood presents us with a series of essays and poems that playfully, artfully propound Jen Calleja’s theory of ‘goblin hood’— a theory that takes in all aspects of pop culture from film, tv, literature and art as well as the author’s personal and original examinations of grief, lust, family histories and the physical fact of living in the world as it is. Goblinhood is a perpetually and variously curious, visceral addition to Calleja’s remarkable oeuvre.
Jen Calleja says: “This book is who I am. It obliquely (and un-chicly) charts
the last 5 years of my life, where so much came bubbling to the surface of
the bog. I really wanted and needed to write this book, and I'm so grateful
to Nina and Will at Rough Trade Books for publishing both my pamphlet Goblins
back in 2020 and now Goblinhood, and for not once doubting what I was trying
to do.”
Jen will be in conversation with Jack Young, a writer and participatory artist living in Bristol. He writes hybrid work exploring land justice, queer ecologies and hauntings of landscape and archive. His debut chapbook is URTH (Big White Shed:2022), he co-edited the book Haunting Ashton Court: A Creative Handbook for Collective History-Making (2023) and his most recent pamphlet is in the country garden/the end of england (SPAM Press:2023). Other writing has been published by Somesuch Stories, TANK Magazine, Lunate Journal, Caught by the River, 3 A:M, Hinterland Magazine and ENTROPY, among others. He also co-hosts the literary podcast Tender Buttons in partnership with Storysmith Bookshop. Recent guests include Garth Greenwel, Max Porter, Bhanu Kapil, Lola Olufemi, Octavia Bright and Preti Taneja, among many others.
This event has free wine, and ticketholders will receive £2 off the book. Presented by bookhaus.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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