Join us for a first look at a landmark study of one of England and America’s most revolutionary poets ...

In cooperation with Oxford University, the AHRC-funded Kafka’s Transformative Communities Project and The Shuffle Poetry, join three poets for a night of readings and discussion. Three contemporary ...

Poetry open mic for people of all experiences and levels. Sign up on the day between 1.00 and 1.30pm. Time willing, everyone will get 5 minutes (or 3 minutes each if it’s particularly busy). Or just ...

12.45pm – 1.15pm: Orphy Robinson’s Big Easy Big Band Orphy Robinson’s Big Easy Big Band brings together youth and adult amateur music-makers to learn an original suite of music, collaborate and ...

Hear three contemporary poets – Moniza Alvi, Gale Burns and David Constantine – present their own work, read an excerpt from Kafka and discuss his influence on writing and poetry. With an introduction ...

Explore poetry off the page in Astra Papachristodoulou’s debut solo exhibition, where poems exist as sculpture, objects and textiles. Papachristodoulou’s object poems encourage interactive and shared ...

Poetry open mic for people of all experiences and levels. Sign up on the day between 6.30 and 7.00pm. Time willing, everyone will get 5 minutes. Or just come along and be part of the audience. Poems ...

Housing the world’s largest public collection of modern poetry, we are the National Poetry Library; free to join across the UK, and London’s only space dedicated to poetry study. Founded by the Arts ...

The International Booker Prize celebrates the world’s best fiction, in translation. Each year it introduces readers to the finest novels and short story collections from around the globe that have ...

Situated in the heart of London, on the banks of the River Thames is the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, a beacon for arts and culture for over 70 years. The 2,700 capacity Royal Festival Hall ...