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SUMMARY:Learning from Dead [Women] Poets: Poetry Workshop with Clare Pollard (In person) | The London Library
DESCRIPTION:Ahead of our Dead [Women] Poets Seance and in collaboration with Dead [Women] Poets Society\, come along to be inspired by the female writers who have come before you. Join the poetic conversation – and think about how to steal\, allude\, translate\, remix\, modernise and speak to the dead. \nClare Pollard\, poet and author of Lives of the Female Poets\, will run this warm\, friendly poetry workshop with lots of exercises\, ideas and prompts\, and a particular focus on the spirits we’ll be conjuring later that evening at our ‘séance’: Amy Levy and Christina Rossetti. \nClare Pollard’s sixth collection of poetry with Bloodaxe is Lives of the Female Poets. Her poem ‘Pollen’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. She translated Ovid’s Heroines for Bloodaxe\, which she toured as a one-woman show. Her play The Weather was performed at the Royal Court Theatre\, she wrote the non-fiction title Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children’s Picture Books\, her adult novels are Delphi and The Modern Fairies\, which won the Tadeusz Bradecki Prize and her latest children’s novel is The Othernauts. \nOur events programme is presented in partnership with Hakluyt & Company\, the global strategic advisory firm for businesses and investors. \nYou will receive a 65% discount on séance tickets when you buy a ticket to the workshop. The séance ticket will be offered to you when the workshop ticket is in your basket\, and the discount will be applied at checkout. To book for the séance alone\, see listing. \nThis workshop takes place in person in the Study at the Library. Doors will open at 3.15pm for a 3.30pm start. Please see our Event Access Guidelines before you arrive. \nTea and coffee will be provided throughout and we will have pens and paper available but feel free to bring your own writing material. \nLondon Library events are subject to Terms & Conditions
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/learning-from-dead-women-poets-poetry-workshop-with-clare-pollard-in-person-the-london-library/
LOCATION:The London Library\, 14 St James's Square\, London\, SW1Y 4LG\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Arts,Events in London,Literature,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Dead [Women] Poets Séance: Sophie Herxheimer & Clare Pollard resurrect Amy Levy & Christina Rossetti (In person)
DESCRIPTION:Who are the Dead Women Poets? How dead are they? And what is our relationship to them\, as contemporary writers\, artists\, ‘queens of the whole world’? \nJoin us as we join forces with Dead [Women] Poets Society\, who\, since 2015\, have been resurrecting women and non-binary poets of the past. At The London Library – the perfect venue for resurrecting the ghosts of poets past – our spooky poet-mediums Sophie Herxheimer and Clare Pollard will commune with the spirits of Amy Levy and Christina Rossetti\, two subversive\, darkly imaginative\, outsider Victorian poets (whose friends and family once wandered the Library stacks). We’ll hear more about their lives and works\, and the influence they’ve had on our two living poets. We’ll also be treated to readings by our poet-necromancers\, haunted by the ghosts of these two dead women poets and all will be compered by poet Helen Bowell of the D[W]PS. \nThe resurrections will continue with the popular Dead [Women] Poets Society open mic\, for which we welcome poets and performers of all and no genders to the stage. The only rule: for every poem of your own\, you should also read/perform one by a dead woman or non-binary poet. \nThere’ll also be the chance to get your hands on books by our guest poets\, dead poets and D[W]PS merch. \nLearning from Dead [Women] Poets: Poetry Workshop – Clare Pollard will be teaching a poetry workshop\, inspired by dead women poets\, which will take place at the Library from 3.30-5.30pm the same day. If you book for the workshop\, you’ll receive a 65% discount on tickets for the séance. To book for both and to receive the discount\, please book through the workshop listing. \nSophie Herxheimer is an artist and poet. Her art has been shown at the National Portrait Gallery\, The Museum of Liverpool and Tate Modern. Her collection Velkom to Inklandt was a Sunday Times book of the year. 60 Lovers to Make and Do was a TLS book of the year and INDEX is a boxed deck of 78 prophetic collage poem cards. Her latest book\, Ode to Joy\, (in collaboration with film maker Sarah Gavron) combines drawing\, writing and collage to create a new type of graphic novel. \nClare Pollard’s sixth collection of poetry with Bloodaxe is Lives of the Female Poets. Her poem ‘Pollen’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. She translated Ovid’s Heroines for Bloodaxe\, which she toured as a one-woman show. Her play The Weather was performed at the Royal Court Theatre\, she wrote the non-fiction title Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children’s Picture Books\, her adult novels are Delphi and The Modern Fairies\, which won the Tadeusz Bradecki Prize and her latest children’s novel is The Othernauts. \nHelen Bowell is a poet\, producer\, workshop facilitator and co-director of Dead [Women] Poets Society writer. Helen’s debut pamphlet The Barman was published by Bad Betty Press in 2022 and was selected as the Poetry Book Society Summer 2022 Pamphlet Choice. \nOur events programme is presented in partnership with Hakluyt & Company\, the global strategic advisory firm for businesses and investors. \nBooks by the speakers and resurrected poets will be available to buy at the event and online from our partner bookshop Hatchards. \nThis event will take place in person in the New Room at The London Library. Doors (and the bar) will open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Please see our Event Access Guidelines before you arrive. \nLondon Library events are subject to Terms & Conditions
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/dead-women-poets-seance-sophie-herxheimer-clare-pollard-resurrect-amy-levy-christina-rossetti-in-person/
LOCATION:The London Library\, 14 St James's Square\, London\, SW1Y 4LG\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Arts,Events in London,Literature,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Write & Shine: The Gothic City - Bram Stoker and MR James (Online) | The London Library
DESCRIPTION:Join Write & Shine bright and early\, live from The London Library for a 90-minute virtual writing workshop exploring London as a dark and gothic city. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll read fiction by London Library members Bram Stoker (1847–1912)\, whose Dracula stalks London’s fog-shrouded streets\, and MR James (1862–1936)\, whose ghost stories linger in the city’s corners. We’ll learn how Stoker used The London Library’s collection to research the novel\, conjuring his eponymous vampire from books he found in the stacks. And we’ll think about how London lends itself to gothic storytelling: a city of mist and mystery\, fog and flickering gaslight. \nThis workshop is part of a series of morning writing sessions led by author Gemma Seltzer\, inspired by The London Library’s rich literary heritage. Together we’ll uncover London as a secret city—a landscape of dreams\, disguises and shadows. \nWrite & Shine workshops take place in the early morning light – the best time to think\, dream and imagine! You won’t be expected to share your writing\, which offers great freedom and encourages all kinds of fascinating ideas to emerge. \nOur events programme is presented in partnership with Hakluyt & Company\, the global strategic advisory firm for businesses and investors. \nNB This is an online workshop via Zoom. Please log in at 7:30am for 7:45am start. You will be sent a Zoom link a few days before the workshop (if you do not receive it\, please check your junk file or email us). \nLondon Library events are subject to Terms & Conditions
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/write-shine-the-gothic-city-bram-stoker-and-mr-james-online-the-london-library/
LOCATION:The London Library\, 14 St James's Square\, London\, SW1Y 4LG\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Arts,Events in London,Literature,Virtual Events,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Christmas Down The Rabbit Hole - The Long Play Sessions x White Rabbit Books
DESCRIPTION:Announcing CHRISTMAS DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: a day-long festive celebration of music\, literature and the creative spirit\, brought to you in collaboration between White Rabbit and The Long Play Sessions. \nTaking place across multiple venues at the ICMP Queen’s Park campus\, it will bring together a hugely impressive line-up of musicians\, writers and performers for a full day of conversation and events\, followed by an evening of live performance and DJs. \nNames appearing across the day include:\n@danieldylanwray @danielrachelauthor @dubmealways @reversediorama @dennisbovell @jagzkooner @gwennosaunders @duranjah @e_17_mark @liaminscoejones @lias_saoudi @marthasprackland @by_michael_smith @msmirandasawyer @_paul_gorman_ @sapphire_goss @djsmokinjo @tedkessler @tiaxcousins @traviselborough @troubledstriker @___youth__________ @zofiapage \nTickets are on sale now via the link below\, as either day tickets (for the daytime programme of events) or day + night (including the evening of performance and DJ sets).
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/christmas-down-the-rabbit-hole-the-long-play-sessions-x-white-rabbit-books/
LOCATION:ICMP\, Queen’s Park Campus\, 76-78 Salusbury Road\, London\, NW6 6PA\, ICMP Queen's Park Campus\, London\, NW6 6PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Christmas Shopping,Entertainment,Events in London,Films,Gigs,History,Literature,Live Music,Music,Performing Arts,Poetry,Visual Arts,Writers
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SUMMARY:The 90s Nostalgia RAP Party @The London Library
DESCRIPTION:Poet and playwright Inua Ellams brings his exhilarating live literature phenomenon\, the RAP Party\, back to The London Library for a no-clutter\, no-fuss evening of music and words. This time\, we’re heading back to that decade when things could only get better. \n2026 is all about the 1990s: Tate’s mega autumn exhibition; every stadium comeback tour; the Cranberries on every screen soundtrack; indie kid Andy as our new PM. So\, join us as we get in on the act for some no-holds-barred nostalgia with specially commissioned words from a stellar line-up of writers and classic 90s tunes. Grunge\, hip hop\, banging house\, sexy RnB\, euphoric pop – whatever your vibe – come revel in those heady days and spice up your life with readings and song choices from: Bidisha\, Joe Dunthorne\, Inua Ellams\, Lauren Elkin\, Dominique Heyse-Moore\, Nii Ayikwei Parkes\, Daniel Rachel\, Miriam Robinson and Sathnam Sanghera\, plus music from RAP Party regular\, DJ Tone. Book DJs in London Here. \nTen writers + a DJ = the best night out you’ll ever have in a library – or anywhere\, for that matter. \n‘A truly fluid literary event not just mingling poetry and music together seamlessly\, but also bringing different tribes of poets: ages\, races\, gender\, styles together. You will be moved in your heart and in your head.’— Roger Robinson \nBidisha is a broadcaster\, presenter and journalist. She covers the arts and culture and current affairs for the BBC\, CNN\, Channel 5 and Sky News. Her most recent publication is the essay The Future of Serious Art. \nJoe Dunthorne is a poet and novelist. His debut novel\, Submarine\, was translated into fifteen languages and made into an award-winning film\, directed by Richard Ayoade. His second novel\, Wild Abandon\, won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award in 2012. His first work of nonfiction\, Children of Radium\, is a bestselling\, award-winning family memoir\, and his other books include the novel The Adulterants and the poetry collection O Positive. \nLauren Elkin is an award-winning writer and translator. She has written several critically acclaimed books\, including the novel Scaffolding and the non-fiction books Art Monsters and Flâneuse. Her essays on art\, literature\, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books\, the New York Times\, Granta\, Harper’s\, Le Monde\, Les Inrockuptibles\, and Frieze\, among others. Her most recent work of non-fiction is Vocal Break: On Women\, Music and Power. \nInua Ellams is a Nigerian-born\, UK-based poet\, playwright and performer who has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company\, the National Theatre and the BBC. His latest play was an adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters set in Nigeria\, staged at the National Theatre. The Actual\, his fifth poetry release and first full collection\, was published in 2020 by Penned in the Margins. He is an Ambassador of The London Library. \nDominique Heyse-Moore is a writer\, artist\, and Senior Curator of British Contemporary Art at Tate Britain\, where she was Curator of the recent Hurvin Anderson exhibition and is Curator with Edward Enninful of The 90s\, opening late September. She is a Trustee of ActionSpace and a Contributing Editor for EE72. She was on The London Library Emerging Writers Programme 21/22. \nNii Ayikwei Parkes is an arts producer\, editor\, cultural commentator\, writer\, Chief Executive of Cultureword and the founder of Flipped Eye Publishing. Translated into multiple languages\, he has won acclaim as a children’s author\, poet\, broadcaster and novelist. His books include the novels Tail of the Blue Bird and Azúcar\, and two poetry collections\, The Makings of You and The Geez. \nDaniel Rachel is a former musician-turned-award-winning and bestselling author whose many books include: Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters; Walls Come Tumbling Down: the music & politics of Rock Against Racism\, 2 Tone and Red Wedge; Don’t Look Back in Anger: the Rise & Fall of Cool Britannia; and\, most recently\, This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music\, the Swastika and the Third Reich. \nMiriam Robinson has worked in the world of books and bookshops for over 15 years. Previously the host of the podcast My Unlived Life\, her short fiction has been shortlisted for a Pushcart Prize\, the inaugural Pindrop/RA Short Story Prize and the Pat Kavanagh Prize. Corsair published her debut novel\, And Notre Dame is Burning\, in 2025. \nSathnam Sanghera is the author of multiple bestselling and award-winning works of fiction and non-fiction\, including Empireland\, which won the British Book Award for Narrative Non-Fiction\, and Marriage Material\, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and his memoir\, The Boy with the Topknot\, which won the Mind Book of the Year and was a BBC TV film. His latest book\, about George Michael\, is Tonight the Music Seems So Loud. \nTone is a DJ and broadcaster. Her show\, Diaspora Distins on Oroko Radio\, showcases talent from the African continent and the global black diaspora\, and she has also appeared on Rinse\, Foundation FM\, Radio 1Xtra\, and more. Live\, she has played All Points East\, Afropunk\, No Signal and opened for Kokoroko\, Ragz Original\, Superjazzclub and more. \nOur events programme is presented in partnership with Hakluyt & Company\, the global strategic advisory firm for businesses and investors. \nThis event will take place in person at The London Library. Please see our Event Access Guidelines before you arrive. Doors (and the bar) open at 6.30 pm for a 7 pm start. \nBooks by the speakers will be available to buy at the event and online from our partner bookshop Hatchards. \nThis is a standing event but there will be chairs available in the room. \nLondon Library events are subject to Terms & Conditions
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-90s-nostalgia-rap-party-the-london-library/
LOCATION:The London Library\, 14 St James's Square\, London\, SW1Y 4LG\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Arts,Cheap Tickets,Events in London,Literature,Live Music
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SUMMARY:The Long Play Sessions: Emma-Lee Moss - My Cantopop Nights
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Emma-Lee Moss: My Cantopop Nights \nJoin The Long Play Sessions\, for an evening with writer and musician Emma-Lee Moss\, also known as the singer-songwriter Emmy the Great. She will be talking about My Cantopop Nights\, her first book and a moving memoir of pop music\, identity and Hong Kong. In the summer of 1995\, 11-year-old Emma-Lee lives in a city where Cantopop is everywhere\, on every billboard and street corner. When her family moves to England later that year\, she keeps her love of the music alive as the sound of a secret childhood identity. \nTwenty years later\, Emma-Lee finds herself in a Hong Kong bar\, listening to a Cantopop song and realising that this music is her inheritance. Her book follows an identity crisis that comes just as the city’s post-colonial tensions erupt into the 2019 protests\, and the search to reconcile Hong Kong and British\, Cantopop and indie. It is a story of coincidences\, magical thinking and falling in love with a city\, a country\, its people and its music. Emma-Lee has written for the Guardian\, Vice\, i-D and British GQ\, and as Emmy the Great has released four studio albums\, so she brings a musician’s ear to the story. \nThe conversation will be chaired by journalist and author Siân Pattenden\, who will explore the book’s themes of music\, memory and belonging. Don’t miss this chance to hear one of the most distinctive voices in music writing talk about the songs that shaped her. \nIt takes place on Tuesday 26th January at our brand new dual SAE and ICMP Campus at The Turing Building\, 3 Westfield Ave\, London E20 1HZ.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-long-play-sessions-emma-lee-moss-my-cantopop-nights/
LOCATION:The Turing Building\, 3 Westfield Avenue\, London\, E20 1HZ
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Events in London,Literature,Music,Writers
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