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Poetry London Summer 2013 Launch Reading
31 May 2013Launch event: Friday 31st May 2013, 6.30pm.
Join us to launch the Summer issue of Poetry London. Ruth Padel, David Wheatley, Kathryn Maris and Richard O'Brien will be reading.
Doors open at 6pm for 6.30pm start.
Tickets at the door £4/£3. Free wine. Disabled access.
Foyles, The Gallery, 113–119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2
Poetry London Competition 2013 - Online Entry Available!
18 March 2013Poetry London is pleased to announce that for the first time, we are able to accept online entries to our 2013 competition. Our highly-regarded competition is judged this year by esteemed poet and former Poetry London editor Pascale Petit.
Postal entry will still be possible, and full details on both methods are now available on our competition page.
Poetry London - New Poetry Editor
14 February 2013Poetry London is pleased to announce that Ahren Warner has been appointed as Poetry Editor.
Ahren Warner's collection Confer (Bloodaxe, 2011) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was a PBS Recommendation. His second collection, Pretty, also a PBS Recommendation, is due out from Bloodaxe in June this year. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2010 and the Arts Foundation Poetry Fellowship in 2012.
The Poetry Editor is the ‘lead’ editor of Poetry London, with overall responsibility for implementing and developing its editorial content. He will also play a key role in the management of the magazine.
[Photo: Ahren Warner reads at the launch of Poetry London, Spring 2011]
Poetry London Competition 2013 - Open for Entries
25 January 2013
The Spring 2013 issue sees the launch of the annual Poetry London Competition, judged by acclaimed poet and former Poetry London editor, Pascale Petit. First prize £1,000. Second prize £500. Third prize £200. Four commendations £75.
For further details and competition rules click here.
Poetry London Spring 2013 Launch Reading
23 January 2013Launch event: Wednesday 23rd January 2013, 6.30pm.
Join us to launch the Spring issue of Poetry London. Sean O'Brien, Helen Mort, Jamie McKendrick and Deryn Rees-Jones will be reading.
Doors open at 6pm for 6.30pm start.
Free entrance. Free wine. Disabled access.
Foyles, The Gallery, 113–119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2
