STANDING ROOM ONLY! Everyone their own football – a football books chat at Southey Brewing

Join Michael Wagg (The Turning Season; Edgar & Adolf) Vince Raison (The Roaring Red Front) and Mark Coverdale (Football is Poetry) for an evening exploring football writing, upstairs at Southey Brewing taproom, south-east London’s hidden gem.

Their books share a fascination beyond the pitch, where the terraces, streets, and pubs, shape the beautiful game.

Michael Wagg is a south-east London-based writer, playwright and actor – the author of The Turning Season: DDR-Oberliga Revisited; Edgar & Adolf (with Phil Earle); and Berlin: The City Split in Two.

‘Gives 14 clubs and their stories the international tribute they truly deserve’ - Zeitspiel on The Turning Season

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Mark Coverdale is the Art School Mod Poet and founder of Tonic Sta Press, home of the Football is Poetry series - the world’s only football poetry anthology sticker book

‘a beautifully produced publication... the anthology is a celebration of ‘the beautiful game’ at all levels’

Tonic Sta Press published Mishi Dulwich Morath’s collection Rabble Rouser, and Mark’s own recent collection is New European Art.

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Vince Raison is co-author of The Roaring Red Front: The World’s Top Left-Wing Clubs

‘Part travelogue, part political history, part football tour guide, I’d recommend this book to all fans of world football’

One half of the Deserter pubcast, Vince co-wrote Today South London, Tomorrow South London and Shirk, Rest and Play, as well as naming Southey Brewing’s flagship pale ale Lazy Jesus.

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Southey Brewing is a proudly independent local brewery and taproom down a back alley in Penge. It might just be the best pub in the world.

Stanchion Books will be on hand with a curated range of independently-minded football titles.