Two poetry events you should try to catch at the Southbank this summer:
The Poetry Takeaway
26 June – 1 July 2012; 12:00-5:00 p.m. everyday
You won’t ...
Stoke Newington hosted its second literary festival on Friday 3rd to Sunday 4th of June, a programme of events which has the long term goal of raising awareness and funds for literacy ...
Mark Akrill: Waiting for Hate Mail
Ambassadors Theatre, West Street. London, WC2H 9ND
11th May 2011, 8pm
Boom.
Who is Mark Akrill? Someone famous … Famous enough to get hate mail. This mail ...
Information as material
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street
28th April, 7pm
Making Nothing Happen
Writer collective information as material (iam) begin their residency at the Whitechapel Gallery on the 28th of ...
Rob Fred Parker talks to writer Joe Dunthorne about his latest novel, the film adaptation of his debut Submarine, and more. Fans of of the magazine and Litro Live! may also recognise ...
Was World Book Night a success?
World Book Day, which just wrapped up on the 3rd March, is an initiative which saw schoolchildren cash in tokens for more than 600,000 specially-published ...
The Live Canon ensemble are staging a celebration of English love poetry on the 13th of February at The Theatre in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. The show ...
If you Google ‘anti slam’ you get a bunch of information about a pretentious-sounding poetry movement which took place in the Lower East Side of Manhattan a ...
Litro Live! Summer Party
Thursday 22nd July
Venue: The Paradise, by way of Kensal Rise
Time: 6pm-12am
After a month of near non-stop sports and intense sunshine, it may be time ...
Pierrot who on cricket’s
legs legs it through thickets—
one leap—
Cassander (old hoodie),
Leander the goody-
shoes creep,
and Harlequin (Domin-
o’s eyes have an omin- ...
There are no horizons in a city,
only those within yourself.
I couldn’t tell where the city ended
and the people began,
there were only individuals
with crowd-like tendencies
and eternal hopefuls
dreaming of big fat redundancies.
I ...
Barren, sun-baked and glistening
from rough weather, rocky crags with deep
gnawn-away gorges and warped landings
hanging plant growth
and rubble as the base of cliffs
descend as ...
murrai is pondering a profound study on
ignorance but does not want to devote himself to writing it
until he acquires greater general unknowledge
yes yes the paper ...
The mirror of elegance before my eyes
and my eyelids sleep a sinewy sleep
in liquid lines of the expressions etched
on a face of cruelty close to ...
Railroad Train, 1908
No sooner is the caboose
out of sight than they’ve
already forgotten you.
It’s like losing clout or taking
a load off their minds. ...
Just a quick heads up this week towards something that’s worth picking up a copy of: the Radio Times. Yes, the Radio Times, because its Christmas Bumper edition contains a ...
It’s official. Poetry + Maths = The Fib, a fun but highly addictive writing form inspired by the mysterious Fibonacci Sequence. It goes a bit like this:
Shark.
Girl
swimming.
Orchestra
rises from ...
This story is based on the demise of Johannes Junius, a Mayor of Bamberg, Bavaria, who was executed for being a witch. Author Mark Wilson, 28, has written for newspapers, ...
Have you heard, have you heard? Today, the 9th of October, is National Poetry Day! How, you might wonder, in the absence of specified cultural rituals does one ...
Yay. The publication of a debut poetry collection is, to our mind, always a cause for celebration—and even more so when the poet in question is a Litro alumni. Then, we temporarily ...