Innovative Poetry Readings in London

Welcome to the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre’s regularly updated listings of events on London’s innovative poetry scenes.

During the current Covid-19 pandemic, many poetry venues and organisers have moved their events online. Innovative Poetry Readings in London is therefore listing both online and in-person events for now (restricting online events to those involving London-based poets, venues or organisations).

If venturing out to an event, remember that Covid-19 is still rife throughout the UK, and please:

  • Take every precaution to safeguard your health and that of others.
  • Check the event organiser’s website before you travel, to confirm that the event has not been cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic.
  • Make sure you are informed about the venue’s COVID-19 precautions.

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Key for colour coding:

Blue: In-person event.
Pink: Online event.
Green: In-person event in London, with simultaneous online broadcast.

Ongoing exhibitions and shows

Until Sat 25 June, Wed-Sat 12pm-6pm.Caspar Heinemann: Glorie: Exhibition by artist and poet Caspar Heinemann.Cabinet Gallery, 132 Tyers Street, Vauxhall SE11 5HS.Free, no booking required.
Until Sun 17 July, Wed-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat-Sun 12pm-3pm.John Lyons: Unmasking the Psyche: Exhibition of paintings by poet John Lyons, inspired by carnival and folklore of Trinidad and Tobago.Felix and Spear Gallery, 71 St Mary’s Road, Ealing W5 5RG.Free, no booking required.
Until Sat 23 July, Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm.Peter Blake: Under Milk Wood, a Play by Dylan Thomas: Exhibition of artist Peter Blake’s illustrations for poet Dylan Thomas’s experimental drama Under Milk Wood.Waddington Custot Gallery, 11 Cork Street, Mayfair W1S 3LT.Free, no booking required.
Until Fri 29 July, Tue–Fri 10am-5pm.Dancing In the Ellipsis // A Cartographer’s Black Hole: Art installation by Rohan Ayinde, incorporating drawings, photography, music and poetry.Iniva, 16 John Islip Street, Pimlico SW1P 4JU.Free, no booking required.
Until Mon 29 August 2022, 10am-6pm daily.Surrealism beyond Borders: Exhibition on the global reach of the Surrealist movement in art and literature, including poets like André Breton, Joyce Mansour, Jindřich Štyrský, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Antonin Artaud, Aimé Césaire, Ted Joans, César Moro and Urkhan Muyassar.Tate Modern, Bankside, Southwark SE1 9TG.£18/£17, booking required.
Until Sat 3 September, Tue-Wed and Sat-Sun 10.30am-5pm, Thu 10.30am-8pm.Crafting Subversion: DIY and Decolonial Print: Exhibition of decolonial publications from India, including poetry magazines.Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Bloomsbury WC1H 0XG.Free, no booking required.
Until Sat 17 September, Wed-Sat 12pm-6pm.The Baroness: Exhibition of work by Dada artist and poet Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, also featuring responses to Freytag-Loringhoven’s work by poets and artists Caspar Heinemann, Nat Raha, Nora Gomringer, Taqralik Partridge, Libby Heaney, Zuzanna Janin, Reba Maybury, Sadie Murdoch, Liv Schulman, Astrid Seme, Arielle Twist and Istanbul Queer Art Collective.Mimosa House, 47 Theobalds Road, Bloomsbury WC1X 8SP.Free, no booking required.
Until Sun 18 September, Tue-Sun 12pm-8pm.Future Cities: Exhibition imagining cities of the future, featuring art by Graham Gussin, Alek O, Prem Sahib and Janice Kerbel, plus poetic responses by Selina Nwulu, Astra Papachristodoulou and James Wilkes.National Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX.Free, no booking required.
Until Sun 18 September, Tue-Sun 12pm-9pm.Penny World: Exhibition by artist and poet Penny Goring.ICA, The Mall, St James’s SW1Y 5AH.£5 (free on Tuesdays), bookable.
Until Sat 30 September, Wed 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm.Here Hear Hare Hair: Sound poetry installation using human imitations of animal voices, by artist Lina Lapelytė.SPACE Ilford, 10 Oakfield Road, Ilford IG1 1ZJ. Free, no booking required.

June 2022

Wednesday 15 June

1pm-3pm.Painting, Community & History: Lewis Buxton leads a workshop on writing ekphrastic poetry.Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, Brixton SW2 1JQ.Free, booking required.
5pm.Queer Yiddish Poetry: Zohar Weiman-Kelman gives a talk about queer Yiddish poetry by 20th-century women writers Anna Margolin, Celia Dropkin and Irena Klfpfisz.Online for University College London.Free, booking required.
7pm.Victoria Adukwei Bulley & André Naffis-Sahely: Quiet/High Desert: Victoria Adukwei Bulley and André Naffis-Sahely read to launch their poetry collections Quiet and High Desert.London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, Bloomsbury WC1A 2JL.£10, booking required.
7pm.Escaping Landscapes: Readings and talks on the intersections of poetry, art and geology, with poets Astrid Alben, Nancy Campbell and Leonie Rushforth, novelist Chloe Aridjis, and writers Richard Hamblyn and Eleanor Morgan. Part of the RAFT festival.The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury WC1N 1JD.£15/£10/£7, booking required.
7.30pm.Malika’s Poetry Kitchen: Poetry with Michelle Penn, Arji Manuelpillai, Charlotte Ansell and Desree.Woolwich Works, 9-11 Gunnery Terrace, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich SE18 6SW.£10 (early bird), booking required.
8pm.Swedish Poetry in Collaboration: An evening of poetic collaborations between Swedish and UK-based poets, featuring Ida Börjel and James Byrne, Lucija Stupica and Rushika Wick, Anna Svensson-Stoltz and Kayona Daley, and Madame Cryptica and Chris Kerr. Part of the European Poetry Festival.National Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX.Free, booking required.

Thursday 16 June

2pm-5pm.found ~ flow ~ flux – Found Text Poetry Workshops: Hilaire leads a walk and writing workshop on creating poetry from text found around Battersea Power Station and Riverlight Quay.ROSE Community Clubroom, Ascalon Street, Nine Elms SW8 4DL. Free, booking required.
5pm.Less Letters or, A Poetics: Lecture-performance by poet Quinn Latimer, about the letter as a literary form.Lecture Theatre 1, Courtauld Institute, Vernon Square, Penton Rise, Kings Cross WC1X 9EW. Also livestreamed online.Free, booking required.
5.30pm.Rohan Ayinde Artist Talk with Sepake Angiama: Poet-artist Rohan Ayinde discusses his work with curator Sepake Angiama.Iniva, 16 John Islip Street, Pimlico SW1P 4JU.Free, booking required.
6pm workshop, then 7pm reading.Wandsworth City of Stories Home Celebration Event: Creative writing taster workshop led by poet Annie Hayter, followed by readings by local writers.Balham Library, 16 Ramsden Road, Balham SW12 8QY.Free, booking required.
6.30pm.James Joyce – Reluctant Groom: Screening of Sé Merry Doyle’s short documentary about modernist novelist James Joyce’s wedding in London. The film feature poet Niall McDevitt.Irish Cultural Centre, 5 Black’s Road, HammersmithW6 9DT.Free, no booking required.
7pm.London Clay with Tom Chivers: Poet Tom Chivers discusses London Clay, his book about London’s psychogeography.Rye Books, 47 North Cross Road, East Dulwich SE22 9ET.£3.50, booking required.
Doors 7pm, event 7.30pm.Norwegian Poetry in Collaboration: An evening of poetic collaborations between Norwegian and UK-based poets, featuring Bård Torgersen and Dario Fariello, Aasne Linnestå and Silje Ree, Cassius Fadlabi and SJ Fowler, Endre Ruset and Ida Börjel, Mikael Buck and Michael O’Mahon, Simona Nastac and Stuart McPherson, Simona Nastac and Stuart McPherson, Harry Man and Aaron Kent, and Ferdinand Jonsson. Part of the European Poetry Festival.Church of St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green E2 9PA.Free, no booking required.
7.30pm.School of Humanities New Writing Festival: Poetry Reading: Poetry with Hanna Komar, Nisha Patel and Abbey Power.Soho Poly Theatre, University of Westminster, 4–12 Little Titchfield Street, Fitzrovia W1W 7BY.Free, booking required.
7.30pm.Bloomsday Open Mic: Open mic for poetry, prose and music to celebrate James Joyce’s modernist novel Ulysses, with special guests TBA.Irish Cultural Centre, 5 Black’s Road, HammersmithW6 9DT.Free, no booking required.
7.30pm.Skronkspeak: Open mic evening for experimental vocal and textual performance. The featured acts are poet Iris Colomb, and Black Arrows.New River Studios, Ground Floor Unit E, 199 Eade Road, Harringay Warehouse District, N4 1DN.Free, no booking required.
7.30pm.writing outside the box: streetcake magazine hosts an experimental writing workshop.Online for Wandsworth Arts Fringe.£5.50, booking required.

Friday 17 June

6.20pm.Looking for Langston: Screening of Isaac Julien’s 1989 film Looking for Langston, about Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. Plus discussion with Josh Rivers, Rico Johnson-Sinclair and Rico Norwood.BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, WaterlooSE1 8XT.£12.50/£10.20 plus booking fees, booking required.
7pm.How Far Have We Come? Disability Identity Politics in the UK: Panel discussion on the UK’s disability rights movement, featuring poet Khairani Barokka, physician Tom Shakespeare, and researchers Liz Sayce and Alexander Toft.British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, St James’s SW1Y 5AH.Free but bookable.
8pm.In House IV: Performances by exploring the physical infrastructure of the venue, featuring poet and film-maker Zara Joan Miller, poet Halldóra Eiríksdóttir, musicians Conal Blake, Billy Steiger and Roobén Galbraith-Goode, video artist Amy Dickson, sound artist Action Pyramid, painter Ju Canon, and artist Hannah Baum.Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston E8 3DL.£5 advance, £6 on the door.

Saturday 18 June

10am-4pm.Poems about Walking: A Walking and Writing Workshop: Rachel Piercy leads a guided walk around Strawberry Hill, combined with a poetry writing workshop about walking, inspired by poets like Matsuo Bashō, Frank O’Hara and William Wordsworth.St Mary’s University, Waldegrave Road, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham TW1 4SX.£82, booking required.
11am-1pm.‘The Waste Land’ in the City: Walking tour around City of London locations that inspired TS Eliot’s long poem The Waste Land, with readings from the poem.Meeting point: Monument Underground Station, Fish Street Hill, City of London EC3R 6BR.£13.52/£10.30, booking required.
11.30am, 3pm and 7.30pm.Apartment House: John Cage Day: Experimental music ensemble Apartment House perform three programmes of different works by composer and poet John Cage, including (in the first session) the textual work Speech (1955).Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, Marylebone W1U 2BP.£16/£14 for each of the first 2 sessions, £10-£30 for the evening concert; booking required.
3.30pm-5.30pm.Writers Forum Virtual Workshop: Workshop for experimental poets to share their new writing. All welcome.Online via Zoom.Free, registration required.
6pm.Liver&Lights + Sukhdev Sandhu’s ‘Night Haunts’: John Bently presents and discusses works from his ongoing manifesto project Liver & Lights. Followed by Sukhdev Sandhu narrating the book Night Haunts, accompanied by live music from the band Nighthaunts. Part of the RAFT festival.The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury WC1N 1JD.£15/£10/£7, booking required.
7pm.Jazz Poetry + Jam @ the Lodge.space: Jazz poetry inspired by the Beat Generation and Langston Hughes, with poetry from Taran le Terrible, accompanied by music by Sue Lynch and more TBA, plus open mic slots.the Lodge.space, 120a Lower Road, Canada Water SE16 2UB.£11.50 (early bird available until 31 May) / £13.50 (midway) / £15.00 (last minute). Booking required.
7.30pm.Swiss Poetry in Collaboration: An evening of poetic collaborations between Swiss and UK-based poets. Featuring Tine Melzer and SJ Fowler, Heike Fiedler and Richard Marshall, Chloé Berthet and Mark Waldron, Hartmut Abendschein and Ollie Evans, Serena Braida and Patrick Cosgrove, Jaka Škapin and André Naffis-Sahel, Bård Torgersen and Dario Fariello, Matt Martin and Shani Cadwallender, and Aasne Linnestå and Endre Ruset. Part of the European Poetry Festival.Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch E1 6LA.Free, booking required.
7.30pm.Ealing Extranormal Volume 7: Experimental performances by poetry/music duo Flooded Access and Edin Suljic, plus musician Si Paton, and sound artists Dushume and Phil Maguire.Open Ealing, Unit 14 Dickens Yard, Ealing W5 2TD.£10 advance, £15/£10 on the door.

Sunday 19 June

Sun 19 and Sun 26 June, 3pm-5pm each day.Interpoetics – An Online Poetry & Translation Workshop: Cecilia Pavón leads a two-part workshop on translating experimental poems by Lucas Olarte, Jacqueline Golbert, Julián Mesa and Perla Zúñiga.Online for Fieldnotes journal.£35, booking required.
10am-2pm.Reading Rhythms: Architect-artists Shivani Shah and Eloise Maltby Maland lead a workshop experimenting with translations and transitions between language, spoken word, bodies and space.Regent’s Park, location available upon booking.Free, booking required.
1pm-3pm.Typoetry: A public poetry walking tour in the Borough of Newham, visiting poetry installations designed by students at the University of Art and Design of Lausanne, in the company of contributing poets Hartmut Abendschein, Heike Feidler, Rushika Wick, Vicki Kaye, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Kayona Daley, Stephen Watts, SJ Fowler and Richard Marshall. Part of the European Poetry Festival.Meeting point: Upton Park Station, Green Street, Upton Park E13 9AP.Free, booking required.
1.15pm.Insects, Autism and Poetry: Screening of a short film by poet Dez Mendoza, plus a Q&A. Part of an all-day programme of films and talks about neurodiversity.Goethe-Institut, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, South Kensington SW7 2PH.Free, booking required.

Monday 20 June

6.30pm-8pm.Ukrainian Literature in Dialogue: Uilleam Blacker leads a seminar on two Ukrainian modernist writers, poet Ivan Franko and author Sholem Aleichem.Online, via Zoom for the Ukrainian Institute.£30/£22, booking required.
6.30pm.The English Summer: Holly Hopkins reads to launch the poetry collection The English Summer.Burley Fisher Books, 400 Kingsland Road, Dalston E8 4AA.Free, booking required.
7pm.John Agard’s Project Curiosity: Poet John Agard performs his work and discusses his influences. Part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe.The Bedford, 77 Bedford Hill, Balham SW12 9HD.£9.50/£6.50, booking required.
7pm.Quests: Exiled Writers in Search of the Truth: Readings and discussion with Mexican poet Adriana Diaz Enciso, Syrian poet, Nada Menzalji, Palestinian novelist Ahmed Masoud, and Kurdish novelist Goran Baba Ali.Zeleha Pizzeria, 102 Kingsland Road, Hoxton E2 8DP.£5, booking required.

Tuesday 21 June

6pm-9pm.found ~ flow ~ flux – Found Text Poetry Workshops: Hilaire leads a walk and writing workshop on creating poetry made from text found around Nine Elms Park and Embassy Gardens.ROSE Community Clubroom, Ascalon Street, Nine Elms SW8 4DL.Free, booking required.
6pm-7pm.Poets in the Archives: Home: Poetry workshop on the theme of home, inspired by pamphlets from the Feminist Library.Southwark Archives, 211 Borough High Street, Borough SE1 1JA.Free, booking required.
7pm. Emily Berry & Denise Riley: Unexhausted Time/Lurex: Denise Riley and Emily Berry read and discuss their new poetry collections, Lurex and Unexhausted Time.London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, Bloomsbury WC1A 2JL.Sold out.

Wednesday 22 June

Wed 22 June – Sat 30 July, Mon-Fri 9am-5.45pm, Sat 9.45am-5.15pm.A Thousand Words for Weather: Sound installation by writer Jessica J Lee and sound artist Claudia Molitor, about the weather, environment, and translation. Featuring words by Izdihar Alodhami, Nikhat Hoque with the Bengali British Poetry Collective, Leo Boix, Iris Colomb, Marta Dziurosz, Nina Mingya Powles, and Ayça Turkoglu.Senate House Library, Malet Street, Bloomsbury WC1E 7HU.£5, booking required.
6.30pm.Pamenar Press Collective Book Launch: Carla Harryman, Emma Gomis (with Anne Waldman’s voice), Philip Terry and Peter Jaeger read to launch new poetry collections from Pamenar Press.Candid Gallery, 5 Torrent Street, Islington EC1V 1NQ.Free, no booking required.
7pm.Austrian Poetry in Collaboration: An evening of poetic collaborations between Austrian and UK-based poets. Featuring Hannah Bründl and Han Smit, Fabian Faltin and SJ Fowler, Max Höfler and David Spittle, Yanita Georgieva and Jessica Sequeira, Stephen Watts and more. Part of the European Poetry Festival.Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge SW7 1PQ.Free, booking required.
7pm.Queer Voices in Literature: Poet Alison Rumfitt, novelists Rivers Solomon and Nat Reeve, and writer Juliet Jacques discuss writing from queer perspectives.Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road, Soho WC2H 0DT.£8, booking required.
7pm.Paper Crusade Book Launch Online: Michelle Penn reads to launch her book-length poem Paper Crusade.Online for Arachne Press.Free, booking required.

Thursday 23 June

4pm.The Conference of the Birds: Sound art performance by Jason Singh, with cellist Liz Hanks, inspired by Farid Ud-Din Attar’s 12th-century poem Conference of the Birds.Common Ground, Wilkins Building, University College London, Gower Street, Bloomsbury WC1E 6BT.Free, booking required.
7pm.Antidotes to Chaos, Part II: Falling Birds and Other Omens: Salon featuring performances and presentations by poet Labeja Kodua Okullu, poet-artist Helena Hunter, prose poet Marta Michalowska, performance writer Dzifa Benson and film-maker Chiara Ambrosio. Part of the RAFT festival.The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury WC1N 1JD.£15/£10/£7, booking required.
Doors 7pm, event 7.30pm.Finnish Poetry in Collaboration: An evening of poetic collaborations between Finnish and UK-based poets. Featuring Milka Luhtaniemi and Callie Michail, Sini Silveri and Prudence Chamberlain-Bussey, Ko Ko Thett and Susie Campbell, Max Höfler and Patrick Cosgrove , Sophia Mold and Julia Rose Lewis, Michał Kamil Piotrowski and Michaël Vidon, Agnese Graudina and Martina O’Shea, and Alessandro Burbank and Xelis de Toro. Part of the European Poetry Festival.Candid Arts, 5 Torrens Street, Islington EC1V 1NQ.Free, no booking required.
8pm.Anthony Joseph – ‘Sonnets for Albert’: Anthony Joseph launches his poetry collection Sonnets for Albert.Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston E8 3DL.£10 advance, £12 on the door.

Friday 24 June

12pm.Women for Refugee Women: Our Words for Healing: Performances of recipe-poems by Women for Refugee Women.Central Bar, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX.Free, no booking required.
6.45pm.Paper Crusade Book Launch: Michelle Penn reads to launch her book-length poem Paper Crusade.Keats House Library, 10 Keats Grove, Hampstead NW3 2RR.Free, booking required.

Saturday 25 June

10am workshop, then 12pm reading.Croydon City of Stories Home Celebration Event: Creative writing taster workshop led by poet Jemilea Wisdom-Baako, followed by readings by local writers.Croydon Central Library, Katharine Street, Croydon CR9 1ET.Free, booking required.
1pm.Out-Spoken Masterclass: Joelle Taylor leads a poetry workshop celebrating Pride month.St Paul’s Roof Pavilion, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX. £20 plus £3.50 booking fee, booking required.
2.30pm.Main Reading with Jane Burn and Victoria Adukwei Bulley: Poetry with London’s Victoria Adukwei Bulley, plus Jane Burn.Online for Kendal Poetry Festival. Also available as an in-person event in Kendal.£5, booking required.
7.30pm.Lithuanian Poetry in Collaboration: An evening of poetic collaborations between Lithuanian and UK-based poets. Featuring Gabrielė Labanauskaitė and Xelis de Toro, Egidija Čiricaitė and Jules Sprake, Vaiva Grainytė and SJ Fowler, Michael O’Mahony and Max Höfler, Julia Rose Lewis and David Spittle, Alessandro Burbank and Fabian Falti, Anthony Etherin and Teo Eve, Theo Chiotis, Milka Luhtaniemi, and Ghazal Mosadeq. Part of the European Poetry Festival. Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch E1 6LA.Free, booking required.
7.45pm.Poetry London Summer Readings: Grace Nichols, Rory Waterman, Yousif M Qasmiyeh, Jennifer Wong and Will Burns read to launch the new issue of Poetry London magazine.St Paul’s Roof Pavilion, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX. Also livestreamed online. In-person event £10 plus £3.50 booking fee, online event free. Booking required.

Sunday 26 June

7pm.Antidotes to Chaos, Part III: City Theatres + Disappearing Wormwood: Salon featuring performances and presentations by Robert Poulter’s Toy Theatre, video artist Nicholas McArthur, and writers Marius Kociejowski and Zahed Tajeddin, followed by a screening of the film Disappearing Wormwood by poet SJ Fowler and film-maker Tereza Stehlikova. Part of the RAFT festival.The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury WC1N 1JD.£15/£10/£7, booking required.

Monday 27 June

6.30pm-8pm.Ukrainian Modernism and Feminism: Tamara Hundorova leads a seminar on Ukrainian modernist, feminist poets and writers Lesia Ukrainka and Olha Kobylianska.Online, via Zoom for the Ukrainian Institute.£30/£22, booking required.
7pm.Latvian Poetry in Collaboration: An evening of poetic collaborations with Latvian poets. Featuring Krišjānis Zeļģis & SJ Fowler, Kirils Ecis & Maria Celina Val, Krista Anna Belševica & Kayona Daley, Sylee Gore and Laura Davis, Ailsa Holland and Lucy Furlong, Katerina Koulouri and Albert Pellicer, Nana Varveropoulou and Nina Fidry. Part of the European Poetry Festival.Courtyard Space, Town House, Kingston University, 55-59 Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE.Free, no booking required.

Tuesday 28 June

7.30pm.Sophie Seita & Naomi Woo – Beethoven Was a Lesbian, and Other Pieces: Poet Sophie Seita and musician Naomi Woo perform works in response to composer Pauline Oliveros and poet-artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston E8 3DL.£8 advance, £10 on the door.

Wednesday 29 June

6pm.Experimental Modes of Making: Two talks on the arts in postwar Britain: one by Inga Fraser on poet, artist and film-maker Oswell Blakeston; and one by Rosie Ram on the 1953 exhibition Parallel of Life and Art.Paul Mellon Centre, 16 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury WC1B 3JA; also livestreamed online.Free, booking required.
7pm.Of Rafts and Other Fragile Vessels: Poet and writer Iain Sinclair reads from recent books, and film-maker Andrew Kötting presents two short films. Part of the RAFT festival.The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury WC1N 1JD.£15/£10/£7, booking required.
7pm.Words, Worlds, Whirled: Poets, Place and the Barbican in Translation: Poet Stephen Watts discusses his Bibliography of Modern Poetry in English Translation. Plus readings by Shamim Azad and other poets.Barbican Library, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, City of London EC2Y 8DS.Free, booking required.
7.30pm.Silent Echoes: Multimedia performance by artist Dorine van Meel, featuring recorded poetry by Khairani Barokka and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, a live reading by van Meel, and music by Sami El-Enany.South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, Peckham SE5 8UH.£5/£3, booking required.
8pm.European Poetry Festival: Flanders: Collaborations between Flemish and UK-based poets, featuring Lies Van Gasse and Bettina Fung, Maud van Hauwaert and Mischa Foster Poole, and Paul Demets and Eley Williams. Part of the European Poetry Festival.National Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX.Free, booking required.

Thursday 30 June

6pm workshop, then 7pm reading.Barnet City of Stories Home Celebration Event: Creative writing taster workshop led by poet Annie Hayter, followed by readings by local writers.Chipping Barnet Library, 3 Stapylton Road, Barnet EN5 4QT.Free, booking required.
6pm workshop, then 7pm reading.Kensington & Chelsea City of Stories Home Celebration Event: Creative writing taster workshop led by poet Jemilea Wisdom-Baako, followed by readings by local writers.Kensington Central Library, 12 Phillimore Walk, Kensington W8 7RX.Free, booking required.
6.30pm.The Baroness – Poetry Performance Night: Poetry and performances with Linda Stupart, Nat Raha, Reba Maybury and Caspar Heinemann, celebrating the venue’s exhibition on Dada poet-artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.Mimosa House, 47 Theobalds Road, Bloomsbury WC1X 8SP.Free, booking required.
7pm.Slovenian Poetry in Collaboration: An evening of collaborations between Slovenian and UK-based poets. Featuring Andreja Štepec and Vik Shirley, Nika Prusnik Kardum and Ali Graham, Milan Šelj and Cherry Smyth, Martin Wakefield and Paul Hawkins, Thomas Helm and Giles Goodland, Lisa Blackwell and Beverly Frydman, Mathura and more. Part of the European Poetry Festival.Open Ealing, Unit 14 Dickens Yard, Ealing W5 2TD.Free, no booking required.
7pm.Launch: ‘brave little sternums: poems from Rojava’ by Matt Broomfield: Matt Broomfield reads to launch brave little sternums, his collection of poems about the revolution in Rojava. Plus more poetry from Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit.Freedom Press, 84b Whitechapel High Street, Whitechapel E1 7QX.Free, booking required.
7.30pm.The White Review Summer Party: Launch readings for the new issue of The White Review, featuring poet Fahad Al-Amoudi and writers Claire-Louise Bennett and Amber Husain.Bold Tendencies, 7th-10th Floors, Multi-Storey Car Park, 95a Rye Lane, Peckham SE15 4ST.£6, booking required.
7.45pm.Out-Spoken: Poetry with Rachael Allen, Salena Godden and Victoria Kennefick, plus music from Stanlæy.Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX.£10 plus £3.50 booking fee, booking required.

July 2022

Friday 1 July

7pm.The Rule of Six: Theatrical performance of Gavin Hadfield’s long poem The Rule of Six, about the early stages of the Covid-19 lockdown. Directed by poet Anna Robinson.University of East London, University Way, Beckton E16 2RD.Free, booking required.

Saturday 2 July

11am.Writing Poetry with Belinda Zhawi: Online Workshop: Belinda Zhawi leads a poetry workshop responding to the Hayward Gallery’s exhibition In the Black Fantastic.Online, via Zoom for the Southbank Centre.£5 plus £3.50 booking fee, booking required.
7pm.Stephen Watts: Twenty-Four Hours Launch: Poet Stephen Watts reads to launch his new book Twenty-Four Hours.Steamship Project Space, 24 Naval Road, Blackwall E14 9PS.Free, no booking required.
7pm.Somali Poetry Modern Poetry in Translation Summer Launch: Launch readings for the new issue of Modern Poetry in Translation magazine, celebrating Somali poetry. Featuring Ibrahim Hirsi and London’s Hibaq Osman.Online, via Zoom for the Ledbury Poetry Festival. Also available as an in-person event in Ledbury, Herefordshire.£10, booking required.

Monday 4 July

7.30pm.Launch of One Woman-Horse Show by Jess Murrain: Jess Murrain reads to launch the new poetry pamphlet One Woman-Horse Show. Plus more poetry from Gboyega Odubanjo, Tom Clark, Jinhao Xie, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Emma Djalili, Abena Essah and Lua Bairstow.Avalon Cafe, Juno Way, South Bermondsey SE14 5RW.Free, no booking required.
Doors 7.30pm, event 7.45pm-9pm.Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Reading group on the middle third of Lola Olufemi’s prose poetry collection Experiments in Imagining Otherwise.Golden Lane Community Centre, Golden Lane Estate, City of London EC1Y 0SA.Free, RSVP recommended.

Tuesday 5 July

7.30pm.Dutch Poetry in Collaboration: Poetic collaborations from Jaap Blonk & Phil Minton and SJ Fowler & Audrey Chen, plus more poetry from Asha Karami, Colin Herd, Peter Zavada, Tatiana Faia, Kornelia Deres, Stathis Dimitriadis, Martha Sprackland, Chris McCabe, Astra Papachristodoulou and more. Part of the European Poetry Festival.Iklektik, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, Lambeth SE1 7LG.Free, no booking required.

Wednesday 6 July

8pm.Special Edition: Zindabad Zine – Diaspora Poetry: Readings by poets reflecting on their roots, heritage and third-culturedness, plus an open mic for diasporic poets.National Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX.£5 plus £3.50 booking fee, booking required.

Thursday 7 July

6pm-8pm.Power of Words: Printmaking & Poetry: Saana Amos leads a workshop on printmaking with blackout poetry.Rosetta Arts, 1 Hamilton Road, West Ham E15 3AE. Also available as an online workshop.Free, booking required.
7pm.The Republics: Screening of Huw Wahl’s 2020 essay-film The Republics, based on Stephen Watts’ poetry collection Republic of Dogs/Republic of Birds. Part of the RAFT festival.The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury WC1N 1JD.£15/£10/£7, booking required.
7pm.Habib Tengour: Poetry at SAFAR Film Festival: Algerian poet Habib Tengour reads to launch his book Consolatio, and discusses it with translators Will Harris and Delaina Haslam.Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington SW7 2DT.£6.12, booking required.

Friday 8 July

Fri 8 July – Fri 5 August.Poetry Beyond Semantics: Broken & Unbroken Code – Studio+: vilde b torset leads a studio course on writing poetry using different codes, markings, and symbolic systems, inspired by poets like Isidore Isou, Christian Bök and Rosaire Appel. Online for the Poetry School.£108, booking required.
Fri 8 July – Fri 5 August.Creative Response Studio: Finding Our Why: Victoria Adukwei Bulley leads a studio course on writing poetry for poetry commissions and residencies, inspired by poets like Jay Bernard and Natalie Diaz.Online for the Poetry School.£85, booking required.
Fri 8 – Sun 10 July, Fri 6pm-9pm, Sat 12pm-11pm, Sun 12pm-7pm.Idler Festival: A weekend of talks, debates, comedy and music, inlcuding performances by poets Lucy Mercer and So Mayer, and a poetry workshop with Clare Pollard.Fenton House, Hampstead Grove, Hampstead NW3 6SP; and Hampstead Jazz Club at The Duke of Hamilton, 23-25 New End, Hampstead NW3 1JD.£130/£125, booking required.
8pm.Caleb Femi: Poor: Caleb Femi reads from his poetry collection Poor.Online, via Zoom for the Ledbury Poetry Festival. Also available as an in-person event in Ledbury, Herefordshire.£10, booking required.

Saturday 9 July

Sat 9 – Sun 17 July, Mon-Fri 9.30am-12.15pm and 1.30pm-3pm, plus extra activities each Sat and Sun.TS Eliot Summer School: Nine days of lectures, seminars and excursions about modernist poet TS Eliot.Senate House, Malet Street, Bloomsbury WC1E 7HU, and other central London venues.£600, including lunches and excursions; some bursaries available.
10.30am-3.30pm.Nature Nurtures: Explore Nature & Poetry Writing: Theresa Lola leads a poetry workshop for young people (aged 16-25), focussed on writing about nature, biodiversity, and climate emergency.Walthamstow Wetlands, London Wildlife Trust, 2 Forest Road, Walthamstow N17 9NH.Free, booking required.
Sat 9 and Sun 10 July, 12pm-10.30pm.Experimental Music & Book Fair: Stalls selling experimental books and records. Plus a programme of performances, music, talks and an exhibition (line-up TBA).Iklektik, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, Lambeth SE1 7LG. £6 per day or £10 for the weekend, booking required.
3pm-5pm.Writers Forum Workshop: Workshop for experimental poets to share their new writing. All welcome.Room MAL 633, Main Building, Birkbeck University of London, Torrington Square, Bloomsbury WC1E 7HX.Free, no booking required.

Sunday 10 July

11am.Kayo Chingonyi and Victoria Adukwei Bulley: Poetry with Kayo Chingonyi and London’s Victoria Adukwei Bulley.Online, via Zoom for the Ledbury Poetry Festival. Also available as an in-person event in Ledbury, Herefordshire.£10, booking required.
3pm.Summer Readings & Rituals: An afternoon of readings and rituals featuring Abby Nocon, Adam Moore, Erin Robinsong, Sophie Seita and Florence Uniacke. Part of Newham Word Festival.Good Hotel London, Western Gateway, Victoria Dock E16 1FA.Free, booking required.

Monday 11 July

6.30pm-8pm.Ukrainian Dissidents: Bohdan Tokarsky leads a seminar on Ukrainian dissident poet Vasyl Stus.Online, via Zoom for the Ukrainian Institute.£30/£22, booking required.
6.30pm.The Baroness – Performance Evening: Performances by poet Nora Gomringer and art writer Liv Schulman, celebrating the venue’s exhibition on Dada poet-artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.Mimosa House, 47 Theobalds Road, Bloomsbury WC1X 8SP.Free, booking required.
6.30pm.Salena Godden in Conversation with Hannah Lowe: Poets and memoirists Hannah Lowe and Salena Godden discuss their work. Part of Newham Word Festival.Stratford Library, 3 The Grove, Stratford E15 1EL.Free, booking required.

Wednesday 13 July

Wed 13 – Fri 15 July, Wed 12.30pm-4.55pm, Thu 9.30am-5.30pm, Fri 9.30am-4pm.Performative & Experiential Translation Conference: Conference on meaning-making through language, art and media, featuring three days of panels, workshops and performances. Highlights include work on poet-artist Kurt Schwitters by Madeliene Campbell and Ricarda Vidal, a paper and performance by poet Kinga Toth, and a workshop with Sofia Lacasta Millera on translating John Cage’s poetry.King’s College London, The Strand, Temple WC2R 2LS.Free, booking required.
Wed 13 – Fri 15 July, 9.30am-6pm.Experiential Translation Exhibition: Exhibition exploring concepts of translation, featuring works by Madeleine Campbell, Harriet Carter, Filippo M Ceredi, Sophie Clausen, Heather Connelly, Cinzia Delorenzi, Zeina Dghaim, Noèlia Díaz-Vicedo, Anna Dot Verdaguer, Birthe Jorgensen, Karl Katschthaler, John London, Hari Marini, Karen Morash, Manuela Perteghella, Ricarda Vidal, and Tomasz Wochna.Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing, King’s College London, The Strand, Temple WC2R 2LS.Free, no booking required.
7pm.Fail like Fire: Penny Goring reads to launch her poetry collection Fail like Fire. Plus more poetry from Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Rene Matić and Emily Pope.ICA, The Mall, St James’s SW1Y 5AH.£10/£7.50, booking required.

Thursday 14 July

Doors 6pm, poetry 6.30pm, music 7.15pm.Exhibition Opening and Performance: Experiential Translation: Opening event for the exhibition Experiential Translation (see above), featuring poetry from Noèlia Díaz-Vicedo and Hari Marini, plus music by Danica Maier.Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing, King’s College London, The Strand, Temple WC2R 2LS.Free, booking required.

Friday 15 July

7.30pm.Poetry + Film / Hack: Supa Modo: Screening of Likarion Wainaina’s film Supa Modo, plus poetry responding to the film, featuring Michelle Tiwo, Inua Ellams and more TBA. The poetry is BSL-interpreted.Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX.£5 plus booking fee, booking required.

Saturday 16 July

2.30pm-6pm.PHF Family Fun Day: Launch readings for the anthology ill pips, featuring writers associated with the Poet’s Hardship Fund. Plus a barbecue, music, book table and auction.56A Infoshop, 56 Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle SE17 3AE.Free, no booking required; contributions to the Poet’s Hardship Fund will be welcome.
3.30pm-5.30pm.Writers Forum Virtual Workshop: Workshop for experimental poets to share their new writing. All welcome.Online via Zoom.Free, registration required.
6pm.London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City – An Evening with Tom Chivers: Poet Tom Chivers discusses his psychogeographical book London Clay.Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, Southwark SE1 9DA.£3, booking required.

Monday 18 July

6.30pm-8pm.Contemporary Ukrainian Literature of Eastern Ukraine: Sasha Dovzhyk leads a seminar on two eastern Ukrainian writers, poet Serhii Zhadan and author Olena Stiazhkina.Online, via Zoom for the Ukrainian Institute.£30/£22, booking required.
8pm.Music Futures/Sonic Pasts: Seeing the Unhearable, a multimedia spoken word work about unperformable graphic scores, by Elena Ktori, Tom Graham, and Dave Graham; and Imagined Instruments, a musical performance inspired by Alexander Bell’s speaking harp, by Cathy Lucas and Dan Scott.Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston E8 3DL.£8 advance, £10 on the door.

Tuesday 19 July

11am-1pm.‘The Waste Land’ in the City: Walking tour around City of London locations that inspired TS Eliot’s long poem The Waste Land, with readings from the poem.Meeting point: Monument Underground Station, Fish Street Hill, City of London EC3R 6BR.£13.52/£10.30, booking required.

Wednesday 20 July

8pm.Apartment House Play and Music: The ensemble Apartment House perform experimental music and texts, including works by Fluxus writer Yoko Ono and poet Clark Coolidge.Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston E8 3DL.£10 advance, £12 on the door.

Thursday 21 July

Thu 21 July – Mon 29 August, Tue-Sun 11am-6pm. I can only dream of living things being made out of letters: Exhibition by participants in the venue’s Special Educational Needs School Programme, featuring new letters and flags for reimagined worlds.Camden Art Centre, Arkwright Road, Hampstead NW3 6DG.Free, booking required.
11am – 6pm.Electropixel #13 Workshop: Workhsop with the experimental poetry and music group Irrational Collective, in preparation for a participatory performance at the venue that evening.Iklektik, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, Lambeth SE1 7LG. £6.50, booking required.
11am-1pm.‘The Waste Land’ in the City: Walking tour around City of London locations that inspired TS Eliot’s long poem The Waste Land, with readings from the poem.Meeting point: Monument Underground Station, Fish Street Hill, City of London EC3R 6BR.£13.52/£10.30, booking required.
8pm.Electropixel Festival #13 – Irrational Collective Performance: Participatory performance of electronic music and poetry from Rhys Trimble, Jenny Pickett, Julien Ottavi and more.Iklektik, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, Lambeth SE1 7LG. £8.50, booking required.

Saturday 23 July

10.30am-4.30pm.Dreaming Awake on the Page: A Surreal Narrative Workshop: Vik Shirley leads a workshop on using surreal narratives in poetry, inspired by poets like Benjamin Perét, Max Jacob and Lila Matsumoto.Online, via Zoom for the Poetry School.£84, booking required.
11am-1pm.Zoning, Fieldnotes Writing Workshop: Fieldnotes journal presents a walking workshop exploring experimental techniques of place-based writing, such as psychogeography, concrete poetry, and frottage.South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, Peckham SE5 8UH and local area.£5/£3, booking required.
1pm.Out-Spoken Masterclass: Ella Frears leads a poetry workshop.St Paul’s Roof Pavilion, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX.£20 plus £3.50 booking fee, booking required.

Monday 25 July

6.30pm-8pm.Ukrainian Poetry of Independence: Iryna Starovoyt leads a seminar on Ukrainian poets Natalka Bilotserkivets, Serhii Zhadan, Iryna Shuvalova and Marianna Kiyanovska.Online, via Zoom for the Ukrainian Institute.£30/£22, booking required.

Tuesday 26 July

5.30pm.Rohan Ayinde in Conversation with His Parents: Artist and poet Rohan Ayinde and his parents discuss his upbringing in London and the influence of Caribbean and Black culture on his identity, to celebrate his exhibition at the venue.Iniva, 16 John Islip Street, Pimlico SW1P 4JU.Free, booking required.

Thursday 28 July

7.45pm.Out-Spoken: Poetry with Kandace Siobhan Walker, Lorraine Mariner and Luke Kennard, plus live music.Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX.£10 plus £3.50 booking fee, booking required.
8pm.Katz Mulk + Hannah Ellul / Rebecca Wilcox (Duo) + Otto Willberg (Solo): Collaboration by poet Rebecca Wilcox and experimental musician Hannah Ellul, plus more music from Otto Willberg and the group Katz Mulk.Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston E8 3DL.£12 advance, £14 on the door.

Sunday 31 July

7.30pm.In Conversation with Lucy Mercer + Will Harris: Lucy Mercer and Will Harris discuss their poetry with Anthony Anaxagorou.Woolwich Works, 9-11 Gunnery Terrace, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich SE18 6SW.£10 (early bird), booking required.
8pm.Fieldnotes: Slow Compression: Performances working with the distortion of language, image and sound , featuring poets Yan Jun and Li Song, textual artist Mónica Rivas Velásquez, film-makers Frances Young and Holly Antrum, and musician Billy Steiger.Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston E8 3DL.£8 advance, £10 on the door.

August 2022

Monday 1 August

6.30pm-8pm.Russophone Writing in Ukraine: Vitaly Chernetsky leads a seminar on Russian-language writers in Ukraine: poets Boris and Liudmila Khersonsky, and novelist Andrei Kurkov.Online, via Zoom for the Ukrainian Institute.£30/£22, booking required.
Doors 7.30pm, event 7.45pm-9pm.Feminist Fightback Reading Group: Reading group on the final third of Lola Olufemi’s prose poetry collection Experiments in Imagining Otherwise.Golden Lane Community Centre, Golden Lane Estate, City of London EC1Y 0SA.Free, RSVP recommended.

Wednesday 3 August

8pm.Special Edition: Mapping the Body: Performances with dance interludes, by poet-artists Rupam Baoni and Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal.National Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX.£5 plus £3.50 booking fee, booking required.

Saturday 6 August

6.45pm.Penny World Exhibition Tour: Curator Rosalie Doubal leads a tour of Penny World, the venue’s exhibition by artist and poet Penny Goring.ICA, The Mall, St James’s SW1Y 5AH.£5, bookable.

Monday 8 August

5.30pm-8pm.CRIPtic x Spread the Word – Writers’ Salon: Salon for d/Deaf and disabled writers, featuring a workshop led by poet Hannah Hodgson, a Q&A with poet and playwright Sahera Khan, and an open mic. With BSL interpretation and auto-captions.Online, via Zoom for Spread the Word.Free, booking required.

September 2022

Thursday 1 September

7.45pm.East Side Voices: Celebrating ESEA Identity: Launch of East Side Voices: Essays Celebrating East and Southeast Asian Identity, featuring poet Will Harris, writer Naomi Shimada, literary critic Claire Kohda, journalist Helena Lee and actress Katie Leung.Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX.£10 plus £3.50 booking fee, booking required.

Wednesday 7 September

6.45pm.Penny World Exhibition Tour (BSL Interpreted): Curator Rosalie Doubal leads a tour of Penny World, the venue’s exhibition by artist and poet Penny Goring. With BSL interpretation.ICA, The Mall, St James’s SW1Y 5AH.£5, bookable.
8pm.Special Edition: Before Them, We: Ruth Sutoyé introduces poets from Before Them, We, her anthology about preserving family histories in the African diaspora.National Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Waterloo SE1 8XX.£5 plus £3.50 booking fee, booking required.

Thursday 8 September

Thu 8 September – Sun 8 January, Sun-Wed 10am-5pm, Thu-Sat 10am-7pm.Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics: Retrospective exhibition of work by artist, experimental writer and film-maker Carolee Schneemann.Barbican Centre, Silk Street, City of London EC2Y 8DS.£18/£13, booking required.

Saturday 17 September

Sat 17 and Sun 18 September, times TBA.Poetry Between Creation and Interpretation: London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research conference on poetry, poetics and translation. The call for papers is open until Thu 30 June.Rooms TBA at Birkbeck University of London, Bloomsbury; also available online.£150 in-person, £90 online, booking required.

Thursday 22 September

11am-1pm.‘The Waste Land’ in the City: Walking tour around City of London locations that inspired TS Eliot’s long poem The Waste Land, with readings from the poem.Meeting point: Monument Underground Station, Fish Street Hill, City of London EC3R 6BR.£13.52/£10.30, booking required.

Saturday 24 September

11am-1pm.‘The Waste Land’ in the City: Walking tour around City of London locations that inspired TS Eliot’s long poem The Waste Land, with readings from the poem.Meeting point: Monument Underground Station, Fish Street Hill, City of London EC3R 6BR.£13.52/£10.30, booking required.
4pm.Stewart Home’s Occasional Barbican Film Club: Ireland Behind the Wire: Novelist and poet Stewart Home presents a screening of Berwick Street Film Collective’s 1974 film Ireland Behind the Wire.Cinema 1, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, City of London EC2Y 8DS.£12 plus booking fees, booking required.

October 2022

Tuesday 11 October

Tue 11 October – 16 April, Sun-Thu 10am-6pm, Fri-Sat 10am-10pm.Cecilia Vicuña: Large-scale installation by Chilean poet-artist Cecilia Vicuña.Tate Modern, Bankside, Southwark SE1 9TG.Free; booking a timed entry slot for the venue is required.
7.30pm.Shearsman Reading: Readings from new Shearsman Books poetry collections, featuring Clare Crowther, Mary Leader and more.Swedenborg Hall, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, Bloomsbury WC1A 2TH.Free, no booking required.

Friday 28 October

Times TBA.Small Publishers Fair (Day One): Two-day fair for small publishers to promote and sell their wares.Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury WC1R 4RL.Booking details TBA.

Saturday 29 October

Times TBA.Small Publishers Fair (Day Two): Two-day fair for small publishers to promote and sell their wares.Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury WC1R 4RL.Booking details TBA.

November 2022

Tuesday 8 November

7.30pm.Shearsman Reading: Readings from new Shearsman Books poetry collections. Line-up TBC.Swedenborg Hall, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, Bloomsbury WC1A 2TH.Free, no booking required.

Friday 18 November

Times TBA.Taking the Mic: Black British Spoken Word Poetry since 1965: Conference on Black British poetry in performance; keynote speakers include Carlyn Cooper. The call for papers is open until Wed 15 June.Central School of Speech and Drama, Eton Avenue, Belsize Park NW3 3HY.Booking details TBA.

December 2022

Sunday 11 December

5pm.Aurora Orchestra: De Profundis: Joined by soloists Liz Atherton and Peter Rose, Aurora Orchestra perform Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14, which sets poetry by Federico García Lorca, Rainer Maria Rilke, Guillaume Apollinaire and Wilhelm Küchelbecker. Plus music composed by Benjamin Britten and Gustav Mahler.Kings Place, 90 York Way, Kings Cross N1 9AG.£19.50-£44.50 plus booking fee; £8.50 under 30s tickets available. Booking required.

Monday 12 December

5.30pm-8pm.CRIPtic x Spread the Word – Writers’ Salon: Salon for d/Deaf and disabled writers, featuring a workshop and reading with poet Khairani Barokka, plus an open mic. With BSL interpretation and auto-captions.Online, via Zoom for Spread the Word.Free, booking required.
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