This is the double launch event for Isabel Waidner's queer avant-garde novel Gaudy Bauble and Richard Dodwell's 'Not Here, a queer anthology of loneliness'.

With readings by Richard Dodwell, Olivia Laing, Isabel Waidner, Eley Williams, Timothy Thornton, an improv Q&A, a pop up queer art gallery and a live DJ set by Chapter 10's Charlie Porter.

Poets, activists, writers and artists respond to what it means to be lonely in 2017. Contributors include porn actor Colby Keller, writer Olivia Laing, artist Marc Hundley, librettist Alice Goodman, poet Timothy Thornton, anti-drag performer David Hoyle & many more. Curated by Richard Dodwell.

Image credits: Victoria Brown & heretik.radikal