Between Tenses: Whispers from the Streets - Reading + writing group hosted by Henry Broome

​Prophetic statues, forgotten histories held in pockmarked walls. Tune into the whispers streets send across time.

​Spanning poetry, fiction and theory, writer and critic Henry Broome returns to Well Read to host a reading & writing night in-store, exploring the theme of transtemporal cities.

​Can a city speak across past-present-future, hold collective memory through the generations. How might a revolution live on in scarred brickwork or between pages? Can you see the signs of fascism before it takes hold, in creeping shadows over marbled steps? Do statues solidify before love dies and can a river become a constant in the turbulence of rush-hour life?

​Together, we’ll read and discuss Walter Benjamin, Mahmoud Darwish, Lauren Elkin, Natasha Stagg, then move into free writing exercises inspired by Georges Perec’s static dérive, going on imaginary wanderings across time and space. As Rebecca Solnit says, change is the measure of time. You have to be slower than change to see it.

​Reading handouts and writing materials provided.

​Bring along any city-themed prose/poetry you’ve enjoyed reading or written yourself.

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​Henry Broome is a writer and critic from London. He has bylines in Art Monthly, Flash Art and BOMB Magazine, and he is currently working on a publication about public art and gentrification for TACO! in London.

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