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.


February

 

Tuesday
February 2
7.30 pm

Sarah Law & Steve Spence

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

Wednesday
February 3
5–6:30 pm

Keston Sutherland, What is Bathos?, a talk on Marx and poetry

Main Building (RHB) 308, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW

Thursday
February 4
7.30 pm

I Am the Last Man Alive: a poetry reading by Abi Oborne, Holly Pester and James Wilkes

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

Thursday
February 4
7 pm

Peter Riley

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

Monday
February 8

Carrie Etter

The Troubadour, 263–7 Old Brompton Road SW5 9JA

Monday
February 8

Harriet Tarlo, James Harvey and Ken White / David Miller

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

Wednesday
February 10
7.30 pm

Amy Cutler on contemporary English poetry and cartography

TALKSTALKSTALKS, curated by Professor Robert Hampson, in room 401, 30 Russell Sq (Department of English and Humanities), Birkbeck College, University of London
Free Entry, All Welcome

Tuesday
February 16

Paula Claire and Antony John

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

Wednesday
February 17

Launch of Bill Griffiths, Collected Earlier Poems (1968-1980), edited by Alan Halsey & Ken Edwards, co-published by Reality Street & West House:
featuring a reading of the complete Cycles by Sean Bonney, Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk & Maggie O'Sullivan

Room 203, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square
free?

Wednesday
February 24
7.30 pm

Simon Smith on 'The Fragment'

TALKSTALKSTALKS, curated by Professor Robert Hampson, in room 401, 30 Russell Sq (Department of English and Humanities), Birkbeck College, University of London
Free Entry, All Welcome

March

April

 

Tuesday
March 2
7.30 pm

Mexican poet Elsa Cross will read from her recent Shearsman Selected Poems with at least two of her translators

Shearsman Reading Series at Westminster Kingsway College, Victoria
no admission fee

Thursday
March 4
7.30 pm

tbc

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

Tuesday
March 16

Philip Kuhn and Tim Allen

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

 

Thursday
April 1
7.30 pm

tbc

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

Tuesday
April 20
7.30 pm

Anthony Rudolf, Martin Anderson and Tom Lowenstein

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

May

 

Thursday
May 6
7.30 pm

tbc

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

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

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

Thursday
June 3
7.30 pm

tbc

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

 

Tuesday
July 20
7.30 pm

Michael Zand and tba

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

September

 

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