An Alternative Xanadu: London Launch Party

An Alternative Xanadu is a poetic sequence documenting the chaotic, shifting organism that is a shared house and its inhabitants. Xanadu Housing Co-operative was born in Leeds in 2004, and here, we get a chance to look at it anew. Tallulah Howarth welcomes the uncanny and alien, with an added formalist conceit: the word count of each poem is dictated by the square foot measurements of the rooms within the house.

Printed and published by Ossa Prints.

Doors at 6.30pm. Opening with readings from friends – Kayleigh Jayshree, Jo Kelen and Helen Bowell. Then you can expect to be welcomed into Xanadu with a full reading of the sequence. Following this will be by an optional dancefloor, facilitated by a few of the many DJs in Tallulah’s family – the Stewart Brothers and Louie Stew