Home Readings etc in London


Yes, this is geographically limited! I can only personally get a sense of what's taking place in London (which I live just outside of). But here are good contacts for what I believe are the other English poetry scenes at present that may interest Great Works users:

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. It's also limited largely to those events including poets whose work I value.


Email me to give me details of any readings or other events to put on this page.


March

 

Monday
March 1
6.30 pm

Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling

part of Swedenborg House: Fourteen Interventions bicentenary exhibition. The evening will be a chance to view the show, and in particular items of interest from the Society's archives.
The Swedenborg Society, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way WC1A 2TH
Admission: £5 (£3 concession)
Advance booking is highly recommended. Contact: nora@swedenborg.org.uk or call 0207 405 7986

Tuesday
March 2
7.30 pm

Mexican poet Elsa Cross will read from her recent Shearsman Selected Poems with some of her translators, including Ruth Fainlight

Shearsman Reading Series at Westminster Kingsway College, Room V109, 1st Floor, St Vincent Square SW1P 2PD
Access to the reading via the main college entrance
no admission fee

Wednesday
March 3
8 pm

reading by Raul Zurita, with translation by William Rowe

Booklaunch of Raul Zurita's book INRI: The Council Room, Birkbeck College Main Building, Malet Street WC1E 7HX
All Welcome

Wednesday
March 3
7.30 pm

Robert Sheppard + Anthony Mellors

Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN
£5 or £3

Tuesday
March 9

Philip Kuhn and Tim Allen

The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1
£5 or £3

Wednesday
March 10
7.30 pm

Launch of the anthology Infinite Difference: Other Poetries from UK Women Poets, edited by Carrie Etter, with readings from fifteen of the poets featured in the book, hosted by the editor

Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH
no admission fee

Thursday
March 11

Carrie Etter

International Women's Poetry, Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park N6 5HG
Tel: 020 8348 8716
no admission fee

Thursday
March 18
8 pm

SHAD THAMES, BROKEN WHARF by Chris McCabe (performed by Tracey Wilkinson, Luke McEwen, Chris McCabe and Paul Henderson)
with Bleeding Heart Narrative and Jack Wake-Walker, introduced by Iain Sinclair

London Word Festival Commission, at Jamboree, Cable Street Studios, 566 Cable Street, Limehouse E1W 3HB
£8 adv / £10 door

Thursday
March 18
7 pm

Mehmet Yashin

Parasol unit, 14 Wharf Road N1 7RW
0207 490 7373
F + 44 (0) 207 490 7775info@parasol-unit.org
Free

Monday
March 22
6.00–10.30pm

OFF THE SHELF: PERFORMANCE, FILM, VIDEO, POETRY, MUSIC
"Taking as its theme a re-examination of the Small Press Collection of rare magazines housed at UCL, this event will give you the chance to engage with the spirit of the alternative 'avant-garde' press, re-visiting early texts that straddle the divide between art and poetry — including artists and writers Vito Acconci, Sol Le Witt, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Derek Jarman and Bob Cobbing. These texts will be explored through various forms of performance and accompanied by film, video and documentation of the period. The evening will also stage new creative works by contemporary visual artists, writers and musicians, exploring the interaction between words and images and a 'speaker's corner' with short talks by members of the Slade Word/Image Research Forum."

staged by the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, to take place in the Wilkins North and South Cloisters plus the Old Refectory, at UCL's Gower Street Campus WC1E 6BT

Sunday
March 28
7 pm

LEAFCUTTER JOHN: BRIGGFLATTS REWIRED + Peter Finch + MacGillivray + Hannah Silva
"Briggflatts Rewired takes Basil Bunting’s extraordinary and intensely musical poem as the starting point for a new, electronically-enhanced composition."

London Word Festival, at Stoke Newington International Airport, Unit F, 1-15 Leswin Place, Stoke Newington N16 7NJ
£6.50 adv / £8.50 door

April

 

Wednesday
April 7
7.30 pm

Amy De'Ath + Justin Katko (tbc)

Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN
£5 or £3

Tuesday
April 13
7.30 pm

Anthony Rudolf, Martin Anderson and Tom Lowenstein

The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1
£5 or £3

Tuesday
April 20
7.30 pm

Jaime Robles and Lars Amund Vaage

Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH
no admission fee

Thursday
22 April
7 pm

Vahni Capildeo

Parasol unit, 14 Wharf Road N1 7RW
0207 490 7373
F + 44 (0) 207 490 7775info@parasol-unit.org
Free

May

 

Tuesday
May 4
7.30 pm

Camille Martin + Alasdair Paterson

Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH
no admission fee

Wednesday
May 5
7.30 pm

Rob Holloway + Scott Thurston

Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN
£5 or £3

Tuesday
May 18
7.30 pm

Nat Raha, Lucy Harvest Clarke and Anna Ticehurst

The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1
£5 or £3

June

 

Tuesday
June 1
7.30 pm

readers tbc

Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH
no admission fee

wednesday
June 2
7.30 pm

Stephen Vincent + Mark Weiss

Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN
£5 or £3

Thursday
June 3
7.30 pm

Alfred Celestine Memorial Reading: participants are expected to include Christopher Gutkind, John Welch, Jeremy Hilton, Richard Leigh, Jennifer Johnson, David Miller, Jeff Hilson and Keith Jebb, amongst others

presented by The Blue Bus at at The Camden Eye, 2 Kentish Town Road, London NW1
free

Tuesday
June 22
7.30 pm

Fanny Howe and Tom Raworth

The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1
£5 or £3

July

September

 

Wednesday–Friday
July 14th–16th
7.30 pm

Confirmed poets & speakers so far include: Caroline Bergvall, Andrea Brady, Elizabeth Jane Burnett, Mairead Byrne, Jennifer Cooke, Corina Copp, Emily Critchley, Carrie Etter, Robert Hampson, Edmund Hardy, Susana Gardner, Lisa Jarnot, Daniel Kane, Frances Kruk, Francesca Lisette, Marianne Morris, Jennifer Moxley, Redell Olsen, Holly Pester, Frances Presley, Luke Roberts, Lisa Robertson, Sophie Robinson, Rebecca Rosier, Lisa Samuels, Eleni Sikelianos, Juliana Spahr, Zoe Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, Cathy Wagner, Carol Watts & Sara Wintz

"a celebration of women's innovative poetry & cross-genre work," organised by Carol Watts & Emily Critchley
at the University of Greenwich

Tuesday
July 20
7.30 pm

Michael Zand and Carol Watts

The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1
£5 or £3

 

Wednesday–Friday
1–3rd September
one day: academic sessions in day; readings in evening

Geography and Twentieth Century British Poetry: poets to include Peter Riley, Allen Fisher and Iain Sinclair

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 2010, Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), 1 Kensington Gore SW7 2AR