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.

I came to the judging for the Poetry London Competition still somewhat reeling from judging the (unfiltered) National Poetry Competition. Not that I hadn’t found some keepers and gems in that process – just that there were times in the [...]

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