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Some photos of the new Café and basement spaces:
Poetry Café frontage
Poetry Café interior through the interior window
Poetry Café ground floor interior towards the bar
Poetry Café interior
Poetry Café ground floor interior
Poetry Café interior from the bar
Poetry Café bar and flowers
View out the front door
View out the front window
The new lift
Basement doors
The stairs from the basement
Poetry Café basement
Basement back wall
Poetry Café basement towards the entrance door
Some photos of the building work in The Poetry Café
The new sign goes up…
Poetry Café frontage
The new windows and signage
The front of the Poetry Café in progress
The Café as temporary offices, view looking in
The Café as temporary offices, view looking out
New Café scaffolding taken on 13th March 2017
All boarded up
New stairs!
A sneak preview of the basement as it comes together
The Poetry Café in progress in January 2017
The Poetry Café as of 6th January 2017
Temporary stairs, top to bottom, in The Poetry Café
Temporary stairs, bottom to top, in The Poetry Café
The basement as of 6th January 2017
Work begins on The Poetry Café
Work begins on The Poetry Café basement
Work begins on The Poetry Café
A selection of photographs taken at The Poetry Café before the renovation:
Perusing the Middlesex Typography students’ New Types of Shakespeare Exhibition
The Poetry Cafe counter
Perusing the Middlesex Typography students’ New Types of Shakespeare Exhibition
Menna Elfyn and Rati Saxena read at the Poetry Café, June 2015
Sketches From the Poem Road exhibition in the Café basement
Tamar Yoseloff reads her work at the launch of her exhibition with David Harker, 18 May 2015
Sketches From the Poem Road launch event
John Clegg performs at the Captain Love and the Five Joaquins event
Workshop in the Studio
The Emma Press, Jacqueline Saphra and Mark Andrew Webber Launch Event
Tequila at the Captain Love and the Five Joaquins event
Private View event for the Middlesex University exhibition
Private View event for the Middlesex University exhibition
Playing Poetry at the Poetry Cafe
Basement reading Stanza De Tre 24-9-15
The Poetry Place and poets