Join the Keats House Poetry Ambassadors for a reading of 'The Mask of Anarchy' written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in response to the Peterloo massacre which occurred in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, on 16 August 1819. Professor Ian Haywood of the University of Roehampton will discuss the poem’s historic context. …
Lilla presents Idris Anderson, Kate Gray, Tak Kendrick, Missy Ladygo, Gigi Little, and Anis Mojgani reading on the theme of Seek. Join them on the beautiful East Terrace at Portland’s Leach Botanical Garden. Learn more here.
Breathing Space is a summer evening series for short readings and performances in any language. In-progress, experimental, or unfinished work is welcome, new collaborative work is enthusiastically encouraged, trying things out is invited. What we hope is to create room to be unsure and that be okay. There will be …
This course, led by Deryn Rees-Jones and Katrina Naomi, will draw on a range of examples from contemporary poetry that could assist participants to develop their own writing, as well as consider various ways in which one might respond to political circumstance, both with reference to the wider world and …
Hear established and emerging poets read their poems outdoors under the park's London Plane trees. This event features the following poets: James Arthur, Jim Johnstone, Michael Prior and Robin Richardson. Learn more here.