Eight minutes to wow the crowd. A selection of poets, publishers and wild-card guests demonstrate their tricks and flairs in the shortest of slots. After…
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The Taqasim Oud Club is an open-mic poetry and music event where amateurs and professionals are invited to share their material with fellow Taqasim Music…
Come and join The Modern Calligraphy Co. and learn how to create beautiful lettering in this relaxed and informal class. Modern calligraphy is about lettering…
Gale Burns, Chris Beckett & Selina Rodrigues present The Fabulous QUEER SHUFFLE!! starring Maureen Duffy, Keith Jarrett, Richard Scott, Greg Woods, Martha Sprackland & Max…
ROOTS is a solo performance, written and performed by Elisabeth Flett (viola, voice, spoken word) ROOTS A new solo performance about loss, language and cultural…
This event has been cancelled, so sorry for the inconvenience. Platform 1 is an opportunity for up and coming poets to perform alongside established acts.…
Saturday 14 March 2020, 10:00 am – 4:30 pmCost: £60
This is a wonderful opportunity to discuss your poetry on a one-to-one basis with poet and tutor Heidi Williamson, wherever you live. Heidi runs one-hour…
This is the London launch for Culture Matters’ new anthology of contemporary women’s poetry. Co-editor Fran Lock will host a series of readings from contributors,…
JOKER (2019) the Oscar-winning cello score by Hildur Guðnadóttir — mournful, dark, fractured — tells the story in this utterly compelling film. Gotham City…
Poetry Discussion – Writing Exercises – Feedback – Development. Read the poems of writers from around the world, respond to a poetry point and writing…
Patrician Press will present an evening of poetry from three of their poets: Philip Terry, M W Bewick and Christine De Luca’s new bi-lingual (Shetlandic-English)…
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD (2019). Quentin Tarantino is driven by cultural nostalgia for the classic age of Hollywood movies and the event that ended…
Against the Grain Press is delighted to launch Olga Dermott-Bond’s apple, fallen and Denise Bundred’s Litany of the Cardiologist. Readings by poets and their guests.…
Poets Versus is a literary platform for emerging and established poets tackling social injustice and promoting equality. Each round will address a specific social issue:…
Come and join The Modern Calligraphy Co. and learn how to create beautiful lettering in this relaxed and informal class. Modern calligraphy is about lettering…
An event every month that begins at 7:30 pm on day Last of the month, repeating indefinitely
the hothouse of contemporary poetry A friendly evening of invited poets, both established and developing, sometimes put together with a cutting edge theme. …
The Taqasim Oud Club is an open-mic poetry and music event where amateurs and professionals are invited to share their material with fellow Taqasim Music…
Laurie Eaves launches his debut collection Biceps with Burning Eye Books. Biceps is a love story, following a relationship from first sparks one frosty bonfire…
Come and join The Modern Calligraphy Co. and learn how to create beautiful lettering in this relaxed and informal class. Modern calligraphy is about lettering…
In an exciting and rare event, ignitionpress is proud to present a collective reading by seven poets published by the press: Lily Blacksell, Mary Jean…
Performance by exiled writers on a range of themes. Interactive activities with audience. Open Mic. Frequently music by Exiled musicians/singers, sometimes video. Under 18’s must be…
Platform 1 is an opportunity for up and coming poets to perform alongside established acts. Performance spots available. (Arrive up to half an hour early…
A celebration of contemporary Latvian poetry sees four of Latvia’s most inventive and eminent contemporary poets come to London to present brand new collaborations with…
Programme change: Owing to the current situation related to coronavirus, all our in-person live events are on hold. We are currently looking at ways we…
Survivors Poetry presents their monthly event around well-being with people willing to share their experiences about coming back from mental troubles. Thursday 16 April Survivors’…
Programme change: Owing to the current situation related to coronavirus, all our in-person live events are on hold. We are currently looking at ways we…
Come and join The Modern Calligraphy Co. and learn how to create beautiful lettering in this relaxed and informal class. Modern calligraphy is about lettering…
This will be a dazzling, eclectic, unresolved, thought-provoking whirlwind of an evening that brings together four poets recently published by Indigo Dreams Press. Alyson Hallett…
HOW TO GET YOUR BOOK PUBLISHED WORKSHOP WITH MARIA MCCARTHY Whether you’d love to produce the definitive non-fiction work on a topic you’re fascinated…
HOW TO GET YOUR BOOK PUBLISHED WORKSHOP WITH MARIA MCCARTHY Whether you’d love to produce the definitive non-fiction work on a topic you’re fascinated by,…
Come and join The Modern Calligraphy Co. and learn how to create beautiful lettering in this relaxed and informal class. Modern calligraphy is about lettering…
Join Abegail Morley, Robert Peake and Katie Griffiths at the Poetry Cafe for the launch of Abegail’s new collection The Unmapped Woman. This deeply moving…
She Grrrowls is back with a live Instagram event featuring Bridget Hart, Antonia Jade King and Eleonora Stolfi, hosted by Carmina Masoliver and Ibizo Lami.…
Programme change: Owing to the current situation related to coronavirus, all our in-person live events are on hold. We are currently looking at ways we…
*SOLD OUT* Find out more about Heidi and Poetry Surgery, and future dates This is a wonderful opportunity to discuss your poetry on a one-to-one basis…
Alyson Hallett This is a wonderful opportunity to discuss your poetry on a one-to-one basis with poet and tutor Alyson Hallett, a relaxed but in-depth…
Left to right: Rosie Shepperd, Louisa Adjoa Parker (photo: Robert Golden), Michael Symmons Roberts (photo: Andrew Crowley), Mark Pajak (photo: Robert Peet) The Poetry Society…
Wednesday 24 June 2020, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pmCost: Free
As Canal Laureate, Nancy Campbell studied fish migration, learnt about locks, and paddled her kayak 100 miles during a drought. Poems bubbling out of these…
Each year at Ledbury Poetry Festival, The Poetry Society traditionally showcases a selection of the finest new voices to have emerged from its flagship poetry…
Thursday 1 October 2020, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pmCost: Free
f The Poetry Society, in association with the University of Exeter and Oneworld Publications, presents the digital book launch of the Places of Poetry anthology,…
The Poetry Society presents a quartet of fabulous poets – Elaine Beckett, Joe Dunthorne, Ian Humphreys and Charlotte Knight – that have been commended or…
The famous Norwegian Christmas Tree has now arrived in Trafalgar Square! Every year The Poetry Society commissions a new poem to welcome the famous Norwegian…
Friday 11 December 2020, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pmCost: Free
Obsidian Foundation is a new foundation for Black poets of African descent, launched by award-winning poet Nick Makoha. As part of Obsidian Foundation’s first week-long writing…
The Charterhouse is a beautiful complex of buildings and grounds with a history dating back to 1348, in Smithfield, in the borough of Islington, London.…
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