Shuntarō Tanikawa New Selected Poems (translated by William I Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura) Carcanet £12.99 ‘Giving people poems / is like giving people air’ writes Tanikawa in 1991. And this wonderful new selection feels as light, fresh, vital as air – [...]

Join us to celebrate the launch of the Spring 2016 issue of Poetry London, offering a unique opportunity to hear some of the magazine’s most distinguished contributors. Amongst the poets reading will be David Harsent, author of over twenty books of [...]

Sean O’Brien reading for Poetry London at the British Council in Paris.

Rebecca Perry reading for Poetry London at the British Council in Paris.

Patrick Brandon reading for Poetry London at the British Council in Paris on 26 November 2015.

Join us for a poetry evening of discussions and readings, with Ahren Warner, poetry editor Poetry London. Invited poets Patrick Brandon is a poet and artist. His first collection, A Republic of Linen, came out with Bloodaxe Books in 2009 and [...]

Can lyric think? I want to work towards this question of poetics by way of a related one in philosophy, whose crispest articulation I’ve yet found swims up in the course of a long, fragmentary lyric by Denise Riley: ‘It [...]

Mark Waldron performing his poem ‘No More Mr Nice Guy’ backstage before the Autumn launch of Poetry London.

Mark Waldron performing his poem ‘Meanwhile, Trees’ backstage before the Autumn launch of Poetry London.