This is fantastic, daft, philosophical and beautifully interweaving. Imagine sitting at a table in a café waiting for the love of your life to arrive but instead of them, in walks their lover. They sit down and wait for the love of their life, and in walks...and so on.’ Welcome to Cafés! A dream scene to study in. A place toperform at an open mic. A limited paradise with overheads. Where we can eat sausage cassoulet and not think about work. Where we can meet friends and not think about love. Where we can meet lovers and be too nervous to eat. In Holly Pester’s unique lyric, the café space is rendered as a fantastical structure through which to explore pressurised subjectivities in the shape of a worker, a lover, a friend, an artist, and a researcher. At a time when conversations around the decline of thecommons and third spaces are heightened, Holly’s book is a stylish and political intervention and call for the necessity of a place for eccentrics, poets, employees and those taking steps towards the rest of their life. On the 9th July we have Holly Pester in our shop, talking with Andrew Biswell about this book. Tickets here.
