Thursday 13th of March
6.30 to 9pm
Join us to celebrate the publication of Nikolaj Tange Lange’s Romeo & Seahorse!
Nikolaj will be in London to read from his ground breaking autofiction and discuss the novel with poet Peter Scalpello ( Limbic , Acting Out / Chem & other Poems ).
Romeo has Hepatitis again. It’s no surprise, and anyway, there’s the promise of more drugs, more sex. Leaving his boyfriend at home he heads out for hook ups, getting abjectly high and pushing his body to grotesque extremes in an urgent but dissociated quest for romance. What follows is a delirious trip through squalid rooms, hospital wards, and night time parks, broken by memories of first loves, European travels, and meditations on what it means to be a Romeo.
With chaotic chem sex escapades and musings on romantic love, art and belonging, Romeo & Seahorse takes us to places not often explored in fiction. Written in a relentless, frenzied first-person narrative with moments of mind-bending wisdom and poignancy, this is a one-of-a-kind novel about addiction, desire, belonging, and want that’s destined to become a queer classic.