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

February

Tuesday, February 21–Saturday March 10, 7.45 pm

GOD/HEAD by Chris Goode & Company
Upstairs at Ovalhouse Theatre, 52–54 Kennington Oval SE11 5SW
£14; £10 Under 26, Equity, BECTU; Concession: £7
Book / Box office: 020 7582 7680
upstairs theatre not currently accessible for wheelchair users

Thursday, February 23, 7.30–10.30 pm

Austerities: Sam Riviere presents 81 Austerities
Penned in the Margins presents at Artsadmin's Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street E1 6AB
£5; can book online

Friday, February 24, 7–10 pm

10 Poets; 1 Digital Performance; Soup: Tristram Bellotti, Linda Black, Nathan Cash Davidson, Gerald Curtis, Louis Eastwood, Navid Hamzavi, Paul Haworth, Ziba Karbassi, William Kherbek, Fathieh Saudi + Peter Downsbrough digital performance + soup for sale
Turtle Salon at Hardy Tree Gallery, 119 Pancras Road NW1 1UN

Friday, February 24, 7.30–10.30 pm

Launch of John Rety's Collected Notebook in Hand
Fourth Friday at The Poetry Café, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden WC2H 9BX
£6/5

Saturday, February 25, 4.30–7 pm

A Second Conceptual Gesture: The Found Readings at the Birkbeck Centre for Poetics: Tony Lopez, Redell Olsen, John Seed + a smörgåsbord of found poetry by others
Keynes Library, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD
Free and all welcome

March

Tuesday, March 6, 7.30 pm

Helen Moore & Sandeep Parmar
Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH
no admission fee

Wednesday, March 7, 7.30 pm

Jeff Hilson
Stort Poetry Group at Waterstones, 12 South Street, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23 3AT
refreshments; collection for poet

Wednesday, March 7, 8 pm

Fire Farewell: Jeremy Hilton, sean burn, Graham Hartill, Rachel Lehrman, Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Suzanne Muir Scott, Catherine Simmonds, Michael Wyndham Thomas and others
Special Edition celebrates the 35th and final issue of Fire magazine at the Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX
Free entry: but email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk

Friday, March 9, 6–7.15 pm talks; 7.30–8.30 pm readings

A reading by and presentations on the work of John James: talks by Rod Mengham, John Hall, Simon Perril; readings: Simon Perril + John James
Keynes Library, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD
Free and all welcome

Saturday, March 10, 4–6 pm workshop

Writers Forum Workshop
The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Rd, Clerkenwell EC1R 3BL

Saturday, March 10, 4–6 pm workshop

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

Monday, March 12, 7.45 pm

New European Poetry: Nikola Madrizov and Daniele Pantano + Nikola Madzirov
Stanza and Maintenant at the St. Paul's Pavilion, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX
Book tickets: £8; Booking Fee: £1.75 (Members £0); Concessions: 50% off (limited availability)

Thursday, March 15, 7–9 pm

POLYply 17
The Centre for Creative Collaboration: 16 Acton Street WC1Z 9NG
Free entry

Tuesday, March 20, 7.30 pm

Ken Edwards, John Gibbens and Ken White/David Miller
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ
£5 or £3

Tuesday, March 20, 7.45 pm

Tess Gallagher, John Kinsella, Jean Sprackland and Douglas Dunn
Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX
Book tickets: £10; Booking Fee: £1.75 (Members £0); Concessions: 50% off (limited availability)

Thursday, March 22, 7.30–9.30 pm

Cecilia Vicuña: film kon kon pi + performance
Birkbeck CPRC and CILAVS (Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies) at Birkbeck Cinema, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD
Free and all welcome