Joey Simons - Attics, garrets, pedlars and poets: a hidden geography of Glasgow

An evening of readings sharing Joey Simons' ongoing research into the 19th century pedlar-poet James Macfarlan for CCA Annex. His work examines a hidden geography of poetry and class struggle in Glasgow's garrets, attics, graveyards, bookshops and asylums.

Joey Simons

Joey Simons is a writer, researcher, Worker’s Educational Association tutor and tenant union activist from Glasgow. His practice challenges the dominant material and ideological structures of historical production by addressing suppressed aspects of working class history and using this as a basis for deepening political militancy today.