Desert Blues
Poets and musicians have always given voice to the deep emotional connection we feel for our natural environment. Desert Blues featured an evening of poetry and global sounds reflecting on the disquieting effects of humankind on the environment
A Picture of My Mind Moving: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg
An evening as part of Jewish Book Week in celebration of the Beat Generation's visionary poet in residence
Poetry and Choices
Poetry and Choices was a series of exciting events and happenings forming part of the LSE Arts Festival in February/March 2009 featuring a showcase with Ben Okri, a Poetry and Choices event featuring well known poets and a New Audiences event featuring exciting up-and-coming poets and performance artists
The Divided Self
Many brilliant poets have written powerfully about depression and their struggles for mental health.
Gold Edged
A New Audiences event hosted by poet and writer Blake Morrison and featuring the poets Nick Drake, Bernadine Evaristo, Emily Berry and Katrina Naomi
Modern War Poetry
Some of our greatest poetry has emerged from the crucible of war. Drawing on the work of poet soldiers who are serving, or have served their country in recent conflicts, this New Audiences event provided a fascinating insight into the nature of modern war, from the viewpoint of those who have experienced it at first hand.
Rimbaud & Verlaine
An event celebrating the life and works of two of France's greatest poets
Spoken Word All Stars
Poet in the City, in partnership with Apples & Snakes, regularly holds live poetry events with some of the UK’s very best performance poets and spoken word artists
Northern Lights
Northern Lights was a series of free New Audiences events bringing together an eclectic range of contemporary poets including award-winning published poets and some of the UK's most exciting new voices.
Voice Recognition
Voice Recognition showcases the work of a talented new wave of poets from Britain and Ireland who are just now starting to make their mark. None has yet published a first book of poems. All are likely to produce distinctively different debut collections in the next few years. Poet in the City presented twelve of these younger poets in a back-to-back series of three New Audiences events marking the launch of this ground-breaking new anthology, published by Bloodaxe.
Freed Speech
An event in association with Modern Poetry in Translation and Amnesty International UK featuring poetry written by refugee and exile poets and writers, and by those who have been victims of torture and oppression.
Pablo Neruda
An event celebrating the life and poetry of the Nobel Prize-winning poet and of his readings at the Roundhouse in Camden in 1970
Heroes and Heroines
An event celebrating heroes and heroines both historical and contemporary held at the National Portrait Gallery.
Marina Tsvetaeva
An event celebrating the life and work of Marina Tsvetaeva, who died in 1941.
Poetry and Film
This event brought together poets and film aficionados for an exploration of the fascinating connections between poetry and film, including a special account of the use of poetry in Indian cinema.
Catalan Poetry
Poetry has been written in various forms of the Catalan language (Catalan, Valencian, Balearic Catalan, especially) for nearly six hundred years, covering an area that stretches from Roussillon in southern France, southwards to Alacant (Alicante) and beyond in the Eastern seaboard of Spain and as far across the Mediterranean as Alguer (Alghero) in Sardinia.
Robert Burns 250th Anniversary Celebration
A major St Andrews Day celebration of Robert Burns, Scotland’s most famous poet, marking the 250th anniversary of his birth in 1759.