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TRACK STAR by @broomehenry

https://www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/treading-the-edge

Henry is a writer and critic from London, with bylines BOMB Magazine, Art Monthly, and Flash Art, writing on public art and the poetics of cityscapes, abandoning inhibition and the way desire shifts perspective. Website henrybroome.xyz.

TRACK STAR by @broomehenry

https://www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/treading-the-edge

Henry is a writer and critic from London, with bylines BOMB Magazine, Art Monthly, and Flash Art, writing on public art and the poetics of cityscapes, abandoning inhibition and the way desire shifts perspective. Website henrybroome.xyz.

Every minute thick, clean rays push round, this massive shaft of light moving in an angled swathe. I see time passing, I feel it physically, shifting in degree increments, in measures of stone. This park and the row of houses is a sundial, the city a universe. The present approaches a palpability when youʼre only just passing through.

This is a new Substack thinking about the way cities alter your sense of time, originally from a diary entry written a day in November, which I subsequently added to, experimenting with aphorism, trying to find a way of making the flow of detail into something solid, because at the time, that afternoon, it felt like more than a passing experience. Link in bio.

This is a short new Substack piece describing the view of the sunset on a flight from Oslo back to London.

It’s an attempt to express the struggle to get perspective when change is ongoing, to figure out how to get a moment to stop and think in the forward momentum of life.

How do you avoid getting caught up in the day to day of to-do lists? Not mistrust your feelings and impulses? Live and make plans at the same time?

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This is a short new Substack piece describing the view of the sunset on a flight from Oslo back to London.

It’s an attempt to express the struggle to get perspective when change is ongoing, to figure out how to get a moment to stop and think in the forward momentum of life.

How do you avoid getting caught up in the day to day of to-do lists? Not mistrust your feelings and impulses? Live and make plans at the same time?

link bio

This is a short new Substack piece describing the view of the sunset on a flight from Oslo back to London.

It’s an attempt to express the struggle to get perspective when change is ongoing, to figure out how to get a moment to stop and think in the forward momentum of life.

How do you avoid getting caught up in the day to day of to-do lists? Not mistrust your feelings and impulses? Live and make plans at the same time?

link bio

This is a short new Substack piece describing the view of the sunset on a flight from Oslo back to London.

It’s an attempt to express the struggle to get perspective when change is ongoing, to figure out how to get a moment to stop and think in the forward momentum of life.

How do you avoid getting caught up in the day to day of to-do lists? Not mistrust your feelings and impulses? Live and make plans at the same time?

link bio

This is a short new Substack piece describing the view of the sunset on a flight from Oslo back to London.

It’s an attempt to express the struggle to get perspective when change is ongoing, to figure out how to get a moment to stop and think in the forward momentum of life.

How do you avoid getting caught up in the day to day of to-do lists? Not mistrust your feelings and impulses? Live and make plans at the same time?

link bio

My @art_monthly_uk review of “Senga Nengudi: Performance Works 1972-1982”.

Now online to read, link in bio.

Really recommend this exhibition which is on till 14 June @whitechapelgallery in London.

I’m in Lisbon right now. For anyone here too, you can see a film of one of Nengudi’s performances in the “Posso ajudar?” show at @macccb.museu. Beautiful beautiful work.

My @art_monthly_uk review of “Senga Nengudi: Performance Works 1972-1982”.

Now online to read, link in bio.

Really recommend this exhibition which is on till 14 June @whitechapelgallery in London.

I’m in Lisbon right now. For anyone here too, you can see a film of one of Nengudi’s performances in the “Posso ajudar?” show at @macccb.museu. Beautiful beautiful work.

My @art_monthly_uk review of “Senga Nengudi: Performance Works 1972-1982”.

Now online to read, link in bio.

Really recommend this exhibition which is on till 14 June @whitechapelgallery in London.

I’m in Lisbon right now. For anyone here too, you can see a film of one of Nengudi’s performances in the “Posso ajudar?” show at @macccb.museu. Beautiful beautiful work.

Celebrating our second turn around the sun with a week of doing things together !

Thursday @ 19h, our writer-in-residence Henry Broome (@broomehenry) hosts the second edition of his writer’s workshop, featuring readings from Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark, Susan Howe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Vladimir Nabokov. RSVP is free, and open at the link in bio.

Friday @ 19h, we ring in 2 years of Well Read! Wine, books, new merch. No RSVP <3

Saturday @ 16h, we’re thrilled to host our monthly Book Club at Estufa Fria, as part of Jardins Abertos (@jardinsabertos). The discussion will focus on Part 1 of the text, and those who haven’t completed the reading are encouraged to join. We’ll have handouts and will do close readings together. DM us to join the group chat for all the details.

Sunday from 12-17h, we’re back at Good Company (@goodcompanybookstore) for another round of our Sunday Salon. We’re bringing prompt cards to inspire writing and conversation, and Henry will join us for feedback sessions following Thursday’s writers workshop. RSVP via Eventbrite, link in bio.

At the risk of sounding incredibly sincere, we do this whole thing as an excuse to read and talk and learn, with and from you all. Hope to see you around this week xox

Celebrating our second turn around the sun with a week of doing things together !

Thursday @ 19h, our writer-in-residence Henry Broome (@broomehenry) hosts the second edition of his writer’s workshop, featuring readings from Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark, Susan Howe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Vladimir Nabokov. RSVP is free, and open at the link in bio.

Friday @ 19h, we ring in 2 years of Well Read! Wine, books, new merch. No RSVP <3

Saturday @ 16h, we’re thrilled to host our monthly Book Club at Estufa Fria, as part of Jardins Abertos (@jardinsabertos). The discussion will focus on Part 1 of the text, and those who haven’t completed the reading are encouraged to join. We’ll have handouts and will do close readings together. DM us to join the group chat for all the details.

Sunday from 12-17h, we’re back at Good Company (@goodcompanybookstore) for another round of our Sunday Salon. We’re bringing prompt cards to inspire writing and conversation, and Henry will join us for feedback sessions following Thursday’s writers workshop. RSVP via Eventbrite, link in bio.

At the risk of sounding incredibly sincere, we do this whole thing as an excuse to read and talk and learn, with and from you all. Hope to see you around this week xox

Celebrating our second turn around the sun with a week of doing things together !

Thursday @ 19h, our writer-in-residence Henry Broome (@broomehenry) hosts the second edition of his writer’s workshop, featuring readings from Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark, Susan Howe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Vladimir Nabokov. RSVP is free, and open at the link in bio.

Friday @ 19h, we ring in 2 years of Well Read! Wine, books, new merch. No RSVP <3

Saturday @ 16h, we’re thrilled to host our monthly Book Club at Estufa Fria, as part of Jardins Abertos (@jardinsabertos). The discussion will focus on Part 1 of the text, and those who haven’t completed the reading are encouraged to join. We’ll have handouts and will do close readings together. DM us to join the group chat for all the details.

Sunday from 12-17h, we’re back at Good Company (@goodcompanybookstore) for another round of our Sunday Salon. We’re bringing prompt cards to inspire writing and conversation, and Henry will join us for feedback sessions following Thursday’s writers workshop. RSVP via Eventbrite, link in bio.

At the risk of sounding incredibly sincere, we do this whole thing as an excuse to read and talk and learn, with and from you all. Hope to see you around this week xox

Celebrating our second turn around the sun with a week of doing things together !

Thursday @ 19h, our writer-in-residence Henry Broome (@broomehenry) hosts the second edition of his writer’s workshop, featuring readings from Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark, Susan Howe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Vladimir Nabokov. RSVP is free, and open at the link in bio.

Friday @ 19h, we ring in 2 years of Well Read! Wine, books, new merch. No RSVP <3

Saturday @ 16h, we’re thrilled to host our monthly Book Club at Estufa Fria, as part of Jardins Abertos (@jardinsabertos). The discussion will focus on Part 1 of the text, and those who haven’t completed the reading are encouraged to join. We’ll have handouts and will do close readings together. DM us to join the group chat for all the details.

Sunday from 12-17h, we’re back at Good Company (@goodcompanybookstore) for another round of our Sunday Salon. We’re bringing prompt cards to inspire writing and conversation, and Henry will join us for feedback sessions following Thursday’s writers workshop. RSVP via Eventbrite, link in bio.

At the risk of sounding incredibly sincere, we do this whole thing as an excuse to read and talk and learn, with and from you all. Hope to see you around this week xox

Celebrating our second turn around the sun with a week of doing things together !

Thursday @ 19h, our writer-in-residence Henry Broome (@broomehenry) hosts the second edition of his writer’s workshop, featuring readings from Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark, Susan Howe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Vladimir Nabokov. RSVP is free, and open at the link in bio.

Friday @ 19h, we ring in 2 years of Well Read! Wine, books, new merch. No RSVP <3

Saturday @ 16h, we’re thrilled to host our monthly Book Club at Estufa Fria, as part of Jardins Abertos (@jardinsabertos). The discussion will focus on Part 1 of the text, and those who haven’t completed the reading are encouraged to join. We’ll have handouts and will do close readings together. DM us to join the group chat for all the details.

Sunday from 12-17h, we’re back at Good Company (@goodcompanybookstore) for another round of our Sunday Salon. We’re bringing prompt cards to inspire writing and conversation, and Henry will join us for feedback sessions following Thursday’s writers workshop. RSVP via Eventbrite, link in bio.

At the risk of sounding incredibly sincere, we do this whole thing as an excuse to read and talk and learn, with and from you all. Hope to see you around this week xox

Celebrating our second turn around the sun with a week of doing things together !

Thursday @ 19h, our writer-in-residence Henry Broome (@broomehenry) hosts the second edition of his writer’s workshop, featuring readings from Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark, Susan Howe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Vladimir Nabokov. RSVP is free, and open at the link in bio.

Friday @ 19h, we ring in 2 years of Well Read! Wine, books, new merch. No RSVP <3

Saturday @ 16h, we’re thrilled to host our monthly Book Club at Estufa Fria, as part of Jardins Abertos (@jardinsabertos). The discussion will focus on Part 1 of the text, and those who haven’t completed the reading are encouraged to join. We’ll have handouts and will do close readings together. DM us to join the group chat for all the details.

Sunday from 12-17h, we’re back at Good Company (@goodcompanybookstore) for another round of our Sunday Salon. We’re bringing prompt cards to inspire writing and conversation, and Henry will join us for feedback sessions following Thursday’s writers workshop. RSVP via Eventbrite, link in bio.

At the risk of sounding incredibly sincere, we do this whole thing as an excuse to read and talk and learn, with and from you all. Hope to see you around this week xox

Celebrating our second turn around the sun with a week of doing things together !

Thursday @ 19h, our writer-in-residence Henry Broome (@broomehenry) hosts the second edition of his writer’s workshop, featuring readings from Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark, Susan Howe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Vladimir Nabokov. RSVP is free, and open at the link in bio.

Friday @ 19h, we ring in 2 years of Well Read! Wine, books, new merch. No RSVP <3

Saturday @ 16h, we’re thrilled to host our monthly Book Club at Estufa Fria, as part of Jardins Abertos (@jardinsabertos). The discussion will focus on Part 1 of the text, and those who haven’t completed the reading are encouraged to join. We’ll have handouts and will do close readings together. DM us to join the group chat for all the details.

Sunday from 12-17h, we’re back at Good Company (@goodcompanybookstore) for another round of our Sunday Salon. We’re bringing prompt cards to inspire writing and conversation, and Henry will join us for feedback sessions following Thursday’s writers workshop. RSVP via Eventbrite, link in bio.

At the risk of sounding incredibly sincere, we do this whole thing as an excuse to read and talk and learn, with and from you all. Hope to see you around this week xox

Celebrating our second turn around the sun with a week of doing things together !

Thursday @ 19h, our writer-in-residence Henry Broome (@broomehenry) hosts the second edition of his writer’s workshop, featuring readings from Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark, Susan Howe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Vladimir Nabokov. RSVP is free, and open at the link in bio.

Friday @ 19h, we ring in 2 years of Well Read! Wine, books, new merch. No RSVP <3

Saturday @ 16h, we’re thrilled to host our monthly Book Club at Estufa Fria, as part of Jardins Abertos (@jardinsabertos). The discussion will focus on Part 1 of the text, and those who haven’t completed the reading are encouraged to join. We’ll have handouts and will do close readings together. DM us to join the group chat for all the details.

Sunday from 12-17h, we’re back at Good Company (@goodcompanybookstore) for another round of our Sunday Salon. We’re bringing prompt cards to inspire writing and conversation, and Henry will join us for feedback sessions following Thursday’s writers workshop. RSVP via Eventbrite, link in bio.

At the risk of sounding incredibly sincere, we do this whole thing as an excuse to read and talk and learn, with and from you all. Hope to see you around this week xox

Announcing our first ever writer-in-residence, essay writer and critic Henry Broome (@broomehenry), who joins us from London for the next few weeks.

You might have seen Henry’s writing in BOMB Magazine, Art Monthly and Flash Art, or at one of the excellent workshops he’s hosted at Well Read over the last year.

His time in-store kicks off next Thursday, 7th May with a memoir/essay workshop on writing desire through keepsake gifting, confessional correspondences, book swapping and other votive exchanges, searching out uncorrelate emotions that exists in excess of material fact and physical attachment, when words become the cauls of the unsaid and sweat-stuck flesh won’t provide final proof.

Readings and writing materials will be provided, RSVP is free and open at the link in bio.

Announcing our first ever writer-in-residence, essay writer and critic Henry Broome (@broomehenry), who joins us from London for the next few weeks.

You might have seen Henry’s writing in BOMB Magazine, Art Monthly and Flash Art, or at one of the excellent workshops he’s hosted at Well Read over the last year.

His time in-store kicks off next Thursday, 7th May with a memoir/essay workshop on writing desire through keepsake gifting, confessional correspondences, book swapping and other votive exchanges, searching out uncorrelate emotions that exists in excess of material fact and physical attachment, when words become the cauls of the unsaid and sweat-stuck flesh won’t provide final proof.

Readings and writing materials will be provided, RSVP is free and open at the link in bio.

My new essay Track star for @piccioletta.barca

“When you’re in late teens-early twenties, that racing, stretched out blur, your ambition exists at a safe distance to you, moving away from you at the same speed youʼre moving towards it. Then suddenly at 30, your hopes are playing out in the everyday, in the very real danger of the present where you get crushed as soon as you give up.”

This is about adulthood and ambition, turning 30, death, it’s full of ego and corny self-actualisations, it’s basically my unedited teenage notebook, something private, forgotten about, suddenly thrown into public now. These are working ideas, but I’m hoping the “you” in here is me and you plural. Link in bio.

My new essay Track star for @piccioletta.barca

“When you’re in late teens-early twenties, that racing, stretched out blur, your ambition exists at a safe distance to you, moving away from you at the same speed youʼre moving towards it. Then suddenly at 30, your hopes are playing out in the everyday, in the very real danger of the present where you get crushed as soon as you give up.”

This is about adulthood and ambition, turning 30, death, it’s full of ego and corny self-actualisations, it’s basically my unedited teenage notebook, something private, forgotten about, suddenly thrown into public now. These are working ideas, but I’m hoping the “you” in here is me and you plural. Link in bio.

My new essay Track star for @piccioletta.barca

“When you’re in late teens-early twenties, that racing, stretched out blur, your ambition exists at a safe distance to you, moving away from you at the same speed youʼre moving towards it. Then suddenly at 30, your hopes are playing out in the everyday, in the very real danger of the present where you get crushed as soon as you give up.”

This is about adulthood and ambition, turning 30, death, it’s full of ego and corny self-actualisations, it’s basically my unedited teenage notebook, something private, forgotten about, suddenly thrown into public now. These are working ideas, but I’m hoping the “you” in here is me and you plural. Link in bio.

My new essay Track star for @piccioletta.barca

“When you’re in late teens-early twenties, that racing, stretched out blur, your ambition exists at a safe distance to you, moving away from you at the same speed youʼre moving towards it. Then suddenly at 30, your hopes are playing out in the everyday, in the very real danger of the present where you get crushed as soon as you give up.”

This is about adulthood and ambition, turning 30, death, it’s full of ego and corny self-actualisations, it’s basically my unedited teenage notebook, something private, forgotten about, suddenly thrown into public now. These are working ideas, but I’m hoping the “you” in here is me and you plural. Link in bio.

My new essay Track star for @piccioletta.barca

“When you’re in late teens-early twenties, that racing, stretched out blur, your ambition exists at a safe distance to you, moving away from you at the same speed youʼre moving towards it. Then suddenly at 30, your hopes are playing out in the everyday, in the very real danger of the present where you get crushed as soon as you give up.”

This is about adulthood and ambition, turning 30, death, it’s full of ego and corny self-actualisations, it’s basically my unedited teenage notebook, something private, forgotten about, suddenly thrown into public now. These are working ideas, but I’m hoping the “you” in here is me and you plural. Link in bio.

Circulating in. London winter 2026. Flying to Lisbon in 45 mins. It’s Rhianna’s birthday TODAY miss you loads. Some pics of various readings, birds and dances. “If these things aren’t moving around I hardly see the point in going anywhere.” Back in 2 months x

Circulating in. London winter 2026. Flying to Lisbon in 45 mins. It’s Rhianna’s birthday TODAY miss you loads. Some pics of various readings, birds and dances. “If these things aren’t moving around I hardly see the point in going anywhere.” Back in 2 months x

Circulating in. London winter 2026. Flying to Lisbon in 45 mins. It’s Rhianna’s birthday TODAY miss you loads. Some pics of various readings, birds and dances. “If these things aren’t moving around I hardly see the point in going anywhere.” Back in 2 months x

Circulating in. London winter 2026. Flying to Lisbon in 45 mins. It’s Rhianna’s birthday TODAY miss you loads. Some pics of various readings, birds and dances. “If these things aren’t moving around I hardly see the point in going anywhere.” Back in 2 months x

Circulating in. London winter 2026. Flying to Lisbon in 45 mins. It’s Rhianna’s birthday TODAY miss you loads. Some pics of various readings, birds and dances. “If these things aren’t moving around I hardly see the point in going anywhere.” Back in 2 months x

Circulating in. London winter 2026. Flying to Lisbon in 45 mins. It’s Rhianna’s birthday TODAY miss you loads. Some pics of various readings, birds and dances. “If these things aren’t moving around I hardly see the point in going anywhere.” Back in 2 months x

Circulating in. London winter 2026. Flying to Lisbon in 45 mins. It’s Rhianna’s birthday TODAY miss you loads. Some pics of various readings, birds and dances. “If these things aren’t moving around I hardly see the point in going anywhere.” Back in 2 months x

Circulating in. London winter 2026. Flying to Lisbon in 45 mins. It’s Rhianna’s birthday TODAY miss you loads. Some pics of various readings, birds and dances. “If these things aren’t moving around I hardly see the point in going anywhere.” Back in 2 months x

Circulating in. London winter 2026. Flying to Lisbon in 45 mins. It’s Rhianna’s birthday TODAY miss you loads. Some pics of various readings, birds and dances. “If these things aren’t moving around I hardly see the point in going anywhere.” Back in 2 months x

Circulating in. London winter 2026. Flying to Lisbon in 45 mins. It’s Rhianna’s birthday TODAY miss you loads. Some pics of various readings, birds and dances. “If these things aren’t moving around I hardly see the point in going anywhere.” Back in 2 months x

Circulating in. London winter 2026. Flying to Lisbon in 45 mins. It’s Rhianna’s birthday TODAY miss you loads. Some pics of various readings, birds and dances. “If these things aren’t moving around I hardly see the point in going anywhere.” Back in 2 months x

Circulating in. London winter 2026. Flying to Lisbon in 45 mins. It’s Rhianna’s birthday TODAY miss you loads. Some pics of various readings, birds and dances. “If these things aren’t moving around I hardly see the point in going anywhere.” Back in 2 months x

Maison Bertaux Soirées is excited to announce the beginnings of a new six part series: The Parisian Affair.

A young girl arrives on the cobbled streets of Paris. Her stay is only for a short while but still, she comes with expectations. The type so fresh they hold no real shape yet. Unaccompanied and unobserved, she melts into the landscape of the city, spreading herself wide across it. 

Join us in our opening week on March 12th with our theme: Arriver - to arrive.

To arrive. It is a threshold crossed. A signifier of beginnings, of conquest and ambition - to arrive where we have long desired to go. 

Though sometimes we arrive at things too late - realisations that can haunt us, at love misjudged, at opportunities missed.

For our first night, expect an evening of bold readings, intimate confessions of first encounters, reinventions, and the strange cost of it all.

Spend the evening with us and discover where arrival has carried our writers.

With:
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert
Henry Broome
Isobel McGrigor

Tickets now available, link in bio xx

Full of brand names and literary terminology, Urdu poetry and Whatsapp messages, Nida Sajidʼs inventive, hybrid debut novel combines seemingly incongruous elements to create subversive new realities.

My @stillpointjournal review of Nida Sajid’s COOP: A Novelette, published by @hajarpress

The book shows us we don’t need to change everything at once. We just have to see dream-crushing reality through new narratives, remaking, reorganising, restructuring whatʼs already there.

Link in bio 🔗

Howe doesn’t search out fixed truths. Fearless, she flies in the continuous forever.

My @bombmag review of the late Fanny Howe’s novel Holy Smoke, first published in 1979, now out again with @dividedpublish .

The novel’s crime-conspiracy plot is a parody of the need to act, but it is motherhood that turns the narrator into a hard-boiled, pistol-wielding, self-described “complete bitch.”

Thank you to @tmconsidine for his acute sensitivity to American paranoia. Link in bio 🔗

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 on 9th December to host a reading & writing night in-store, exploring the theme of transtemporal cities.

RSVP is free and open now at the link in bio.

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 on 9th December to host a reading & writing night in-store, exploring the theme of transtemporal cities.

RSVP is free and open now at the link in bio.