Poetry Readings In London

For cut down mobile friendly version, covering just next four weeks, go to www.modernpoetry.org.uk/mobilepoetry.html .

Other English innovative poetry scenes at present that may interest Great Works and modernpoetry.org.uk users:

for Cambridge: CRS: CAMBRIDGE READING SERIES seems main series at present
for Brighton: Hi Zero!
for Manchester: The Other Room
for Leicester: Poetry Leicester
for Leeds: Letterbomb
for Plymouth: Plymouth Language Club, at Plymouth Arts Centre, Looe St, The Barbican.

Other good listings of events are on Openned, Vents, and also Shearsman. You will find also some worthwhile stuff on Poets on Fire, which has a national coverage. Another excellent source of information is the Poetry Library's newsletter. Try too, though it is not always up to date, the readings and other events section of modernpoetry.org.uk's Links page.

Colour codings: new listing change to event details correction to listing quoting publicity material cancelled. Updated: June 16

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 Four days of festival performances, exhibitions, artistic presentations of poetics statements, scholarly papers, talks, visual media arts, and celebration of creative, visionary, and imaginative poiesis at the cutting edge of the triumphant spirit of the arts in the digital age. — 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 7.30 pm	a wnaed yng nghymru /made in wales with 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
Tuesday June 18 7 pm (doors open at 6.30)	Kristen Kreider & James Leary, Allen Fisher, Becky Cremin and Stephen Willey	Amid the Ruins organised by the Royal Holloway Centre for Research in Poetics at Daniel Blau Gallery, 51 Hoxton Square, N1 6PB free
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
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
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; includes reading/performance by Holly Pester and Peter Jaeger	Kingsgate Gallery, 110–116 Kingsgate Road London NW6 2JG
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)	Two Degrees Festival at Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street E1 6AB £5; book online
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 To secure your place payment can be made via paypal; phone 020 7490 7373 ext. 20; or email (lucy@parasol-unit.org)
Friday June 21–Sunday June 30 Friday & Saturday 12– 6pm, Sunday 1–5 pm or by appointment (07986 355 075)	floating world: exhibition in 3 parts by kaz: Part 2: a two-channel video projection work, Nozomi, made in collaboration with the poet, Peter Jaeger, will provide the main focus whole exhibition: Friday, 7 June–Sunday, 14 July	Kingsgate Gallery, 110–116 Kingsgate Road London NW6 2JG
Saturday June 22 arrive 3.30 for 4–6 pm workshop	Writers Forum Workshop At Writers Forum Workshop poets may learn from each other by encouraging each other. Negative comment is strongly discouraged as is point-scoring. This does not exclude discussion. Quite the opposite. Our focus is upon experimentation and innovation. Our approach is one of mutual respect. for more information email Lawrence Upton (lDOTuptonATgoldDOTacDOTuk)	Room 268, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW All who support our ethos and focus may attend; and we are keen to meet new people.
Saturday June 22 12–5.30 pm	Future Now Weekend: 12– 1 pm: Yoko Ono and Hans Ulrich Obrist launch Yoko Ono's Acorn 1.30–2.30 pm: Future Exiles: Poetry, Activism and the Future: hosted by Chris McCabe, readers include Iain Sinclair, Mark Burnhope, Sarah Crewe, Sophie Mayer, Niall McDevitt, Melanie Challenger and Sascha Aurora Akhtar 3–4 pm: Future Bites, including Alex Fleetwood and Dr John Troyer 4.30–5.30 pm: Eric Weinstein	part of Meltdown, curated by Yoko Ono, & Festival of Neighbourhood, with Barclaycard, at the Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX £15 for whole event; book online
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; more reading and fun	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 Karen on kwhiteson@yahoo.com

July
Thursday July 4 7.30 pm	Alexander Ford and Clive Gresswell: Blood and Faith, a modern twist on dark poetry presented as a collaboration	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: The Rite of Reading — Forbes Morlock; Teaching Reading Creative-Critical Writing — Stephen Benson and Clare Connors; Individual Reading Records — Kate Briggs 2.45–4.15 pm: Essayism — Brian Dillon; Shimmy — Hester Reeve; Action Reading — Peter Jaeger 4.45–6 pm: Nicholas Royle; The First Reader: a Dictation — Sarah Wood; Reading Nana — Sharon Kivland	ICA Studio, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall SW1Y 5AH £5
Saturday July 6–Saturday July 20	Enemies: Visual Art & Poetry, featuring Dylan Nyoukis & David Kelly, Marcus Slease & Ben Morris, Ragnhildur Johanns & Iain Sinclair, SJ Fowler & Thomas Duggan Beginning in February 2013, five poets will be paired with five artists and given six months to create original collaborations which straddle the worlds of visual art and poetry. In July 2013 these original works will be exhibited in a two week long exhibition in the Hardy Tree gallery in St Pancras, London. As well as an opening night launch, Enemies: Visual Art & Poetry will see over ten poetry events curated in the gallery space by invited parties over the two weeks residency, shining a light on the most dynamic and creative poetic organisations and artists active in London.	The Enemies Project, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, Arts Council England & Penned in the Margins at Hardy Tree Gallery, 119 Pancras Road NW1 1UN
Saturday July 13 arrive 3.30 for 4–6 pm workshop	Writers Forum Workshop for more information email Lawrence Upton (lDOTuptonATgoldDOTacDOTuk)	? Room 268, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW
Saturday July 13 arrive 3.30 for 4–6 pm workshop	Writers Forum Workshop – New Series for more information email Antony John (antonyjohnfrancisAThotmailDOTcom) or Stephen Mooney (estaphinATgmailDOTcom)	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
Monday July 22 8 pm	Full Moon Launch of Ben Watson's Derek Bailey & the Story of Free Improvisation (Verso): Alan Wilkinson; Oscillatorial Binnage (Fari Bradley, Toby Clarkson, Chris Weaver and Dan Wilson); Peter Baxter; Len Massey; Esther Leslie; T.H.F. Drenching; Mordecai Watson; Liam Massey; Out To Lunch	organised by the AMM (Association of Musical Marxists) in conjunction with Verso at Café Oto, 18–22 Ashwin Street, Dalston E8 3DL £4 on door

August
Saturday August 3 arrive 3.30 for 4–6 pm workshop	Writers Forum Workshop for more information email Lawrence Upton (lDOTuptonATgoldDOTacDOTuk)	? Room 268, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW
Saturday August 10 arrive 3.30 for 4–6 pm workshop	Writers Forum Workshop – New Series for more information email Antony John (antonyjohnfrancisAThotmailDOTcom) or Stephen Mooney (estaphinATgmailDOTcom)	The Fox, 28–30 Paul Street, Shoreditch EC2A 4LB
Tuesday August 20 7.30 pm	Chris McCabe, Andrew Taylor and David Miller	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ £5 or £3
Saturday August 24 arrive 3.30 for 4–6 pm workshop	Writers Forum Workshop for more information email Lawrence Upton (lDOTuptonATgoldDOTacDOTuk)	? Room 268, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW

September
Saturday September 7 10 am–5 pm	Free Verse: The Poetry Book Fair	Conway Hall, Red Lion Square WC1R 4RL
Tuesday September 17 7.30 pm	Simon Smith, Anthony Mellors and David Rees	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ £5 or £3

October
Tuesday October 15 7.30 pm	Laurie Duggan, Andrew Spragg and Peter Philpott	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ £5 or £3
Monday October 21– Sunday October 27	Gilles de Rais / The Estates of Westeros: an exhibition	The Enemies Project, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, Arts Council England & Penned in the Margins at Rich Mix Cafe Gallery, 35–47 Bethnal Green Road E1 6LA
Friday October 25 7.30 pm	The Launch of Enemies: the collected collaborations of SJ Fowler: featuring SJ Fowler, Sarah Kelly, David Kelly, Patrick Coyle, Tim Atkins, Marcus Slease, Claire Potter, Tamarin Norwood, David Berridge, Alexander Kell, Philip Venables, Anatol Knotek, Ben Morris, Matteo Patocchi and many others	The Enemies Project, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, Arts Council England & Penned in the Margins at Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street E1 6AB
Saturday October 26 7 pm?	Camarade V – one day festival	presented by 3am magazine's Maintenant interview series at Rich Mix, 35–47 Bethnal Green Road E1 6LA Free entrance for all

November
Tuesday November 19 7.30 pm	Richard Berengarten, Cristina Viti and Michael Zand	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ £5 or £3

Email me to give me details of any readings or other events to put on this page. But do please note that this listing is of poetry (& some related activities) occurring within the tradition or community of British Innovative Poetry, because that's the only poetry that seems worthwhile to me. I can be very inclusive, alarmingly so I am sure to some; but there are clear limits to what I will publicise. Look back on modernpoetry.org.uk or on Great Works if you are unsure.

Poetry Readings in London