Home Poetry Readings in London

Innovative poetry events in London for next four weeks:
see www.modernpoetry.org.uk/readings.html for fuller information & longer timespan

June

Friday, May 24–Saturday, June 29; Tuesday–Friday 11 am–6 pm; Saturday 1–5 pm

Cecilia Vicuña
England & Co, 90–92 Great Portland Street W1W 7NT

Friday, June 14–Sunday, June 30; Wednesday–Friday: 1–7 pm; Saturday & Sunday: 12–6 pm

Sophie Herxheimer: Every Day its the Same + Lara Popovic
bookartbookshop, 17 Pitfield Street, Hoxton N1 6HB

Monday, June 17–Thursday, June 20

E-Poetry [2013] Kingston University-London: Programme available online
presented by the Electronic Poetry Center, Dept. of Media Study, State University of New York, Buffalo & the kind support of Kingston Writing School, Practice Research Unit, the School of Performance & Screen Studies, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Kingston University London, and Watermans Art Centre
Registration (£160/$245)

Tuesday, June 18, 7 pm (doors 6.30)

Kristen Kreider & James Leary, Allen Fisher, Becky Cremin and Stephen Willey
Amid the Ruins at Daniel Blau Gallery, 51 Hoxton Square, N1 6PB
free

Tuesday, June 18, 7.30 pm

Sarah Kelly, matt martin and Nicholas Spicer
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ
£5 or £3

Tuesday, June 18, 7.30 pm

a wnaed yng nghymru /made in wales: phil bowen, marianne burton, rebecca perry, robert seatter, judy brown, graham clifford, rhian edwards & kathryn simmonds; introduced by Amy Wack
Seren Books at The Troubadour, 263-7 Old Brompton Road, SW5 9JA

Wednesday, June 19, 6–8 pm

Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar: Dr Richard Parker: 'Ezra Pound: Belated Modernism and Objective Verse'
Room 234, University of London Senate House, Malet Street WC1E 7HU
all welcome

Wednesday, June 19, 7.30

David Ashford, Dorothy Lehane & Nat Raha
Xing the Line: The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant WC1X 2AE
£5 or £3

Thursday, June 20, 6–9 pm; reading/performance at 7.30 pm

floating world: exhibition in 3 parts by kaz: Private View of Part 2: reading/performance by Holly Pester and Peter Jaeger
Kingsgate Gallery, 110–116 Kingsgate Road London NW6 2JG

Thursday, June 20, 7 pm

Common Presence: Infinite Diagonals and Finite Verticals: Peter Larkin + John Milbank
Intercapillary Places — Poetry at Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road N1 7RW
£5 / £4
pay via paypal; phone 020 7490 7373 ext. 20; or email (lucy@parasol-unit.org)

Thursday, June 20, 7.30 pm

Two Degrees: Land Shift: New approaches to writing about place: Michael Symmons Roberts + Leafcutter John + Justin Hopper + Amy Cutler + Tom Chivers (host)
Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street E1 6AB
£5; book online

Friday, June 21–Sunday, June 30: Friday & Saturday 12– 6pm, Sunday 1–5 pm or by appointment (07986 355 075); whole exhibition: Friday, 7 June–Sunday, 14 July

floating world: exhibition in 3 parts by kaz: Part 2: in collaboration with Peter Jaeger
Kingsgate Gallery, 110–116 Kingsgate Road London NW6 2JG

Saturday, June 22, 1.30–2.30 pm

Future Exiles: Poetry, Activism and the Future, hosted by Chris McCabe, including Iain Sinclair, Mark Burnhope, Sarah Crewe, Sophie Mayer, Niall McDevitt, Melanie Challenger and Sascha Aurora Akhtar
part of Future Now Weekend of Meltdown, curated by Yoko Ono, at the Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX
£15 for whole afternoon's events; book online

Saturday, June 22, 4–6 pm workshop

Writers Forum Workshop
Room 268, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW

Wednesday, June 26, 6–8 pm

Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar: Amy De'Ath: 'Sensuality, Suspension and Ordinary Life: Bernadette Mayer and Catherine Wagner'
Room 234, University of London Senate House, Malet Street WC1E 7HU
all welcome

Thursday, June 27, 6 pm

John Matthias and Aidan Semmens
Shearsman Books at The University of Notre Dame London Program, 1 Suffolk Street SW1Y 4HG

Thursday, June 27, 6–9 pm

closing event for Sophie Herxheimer: Every Day its the Same + Lara Popovic
bookartbookshop, 17 Pitfield Street, Hoxton N1 6HB

Sunday, June 30, 2–6 pm

Workshop by Karen Whiteson: The Dragon & the Lion: two modes of inhabiting the city
Kingsgate Workshops Trust, 110–116 Kingsgate Road NW6 2JG
£60; to enrol contact kwhiteson@yahoo.com

July

Thursday, July 4, 7.30 pm

Alexander Ford and Clive Gresswell: Blood and Faith
The Red Hedgehog, 255–257 Archway Road, Highgate N6 5BS

Friday, July 5, 1–6 pm

Friday Salon: Reading as a Contemporary Art
1–2.30 pm: Forbes Morlock + Stephen Benson and Clare Connors + Kate Briggs; 2.45–4.15 pm: Brian Dillon + Hester Reeve + Peter Jaeger; 4.45–6 pm: Nicholas Royle + Sarah Wood + Sharon Kivland
ICA Studio, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall SW1Y 5AH
£5

Saturday, July 6–Saturday, July 20

Enemies: Visual Art & Poetry: Dylan Nyoukis & David Kelly, Marcus Slease & Ben Morris, Ragnhildur Johanns & Iain Sinclair, SJ Fowler & Thomas Duggan
The Enemies Project at Hardy Tree Gallery, 119 Pancras Road NW1 1UN

Saturday, July 13, 4–6 pm workshop

Writers Forum Workshop
Room 268, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW

Saturday, July 13, 4–6 pm workshop

Writers Forum Workshop – New Series
The Fox, 28–30 Paul Street, Shoreditch EC2A 4LB

Tuesday, July 16, 7.30 pm

Johan de Wit and Antony John
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ
£5 or £3