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🎭Musical 🎬Play / Drama 😂Stand-up Comedy 🎪Improv Comedy 🖼️Art Exhibition 🎥Film Screening 💃Dance Performance Museum Event

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Wednesday 27 May

Write Club

Wed 27 May · 10:00 am

Creative WorksFree

+ 29 more dates

‘Cosmagnetic’ Reading & Poetry Writing Workshop: Li Yuan-Chia

Wed 27 May · 5:30 pm

Chelsea College of ArtsFree

Raw Rotations: Where everything is rotating — the mic, the people, the decks

Wed 27 May · 6:00 pm

Club SillyFree

TEN YEARS OF SPAM - Poetry Party, London, Old Queen's Head!

Wed 27 May · 6:00 pm

The Old Queens HeadFree

Firepit Tales - Spoken Word Open Mic

Wed 27 May · 6:30 pm

Firepit Art Gallery and Studios CIC

From Gibraltar to the Caspian Sea -Poets and singer-songwriters summon traces of shared humanity

Wed 27 May · 7:00 pm

Noho Showrooms£13.20

La Cozna and Mary Hampton

Wed 27 May · 7:30 pm

Cafe OTO£17.00

KOTJ presents AWAY FANS / MOFGY + Barking Poets

Wed 27 May · 7:30 pm

The Blue Post£8.50

Thursday 28 May

SPIN Show: Interactive Poetry Performance

Thu 28 May · 10:30 am

Fulham LibraryFree

Friday 29 May

Poetry Open Mic Night At Culture House

Fri 29 May · 6:00 pm

Culture HouseFree

Saturday 30 May

Purfleet Poems in the Garden

Sat 30 May · 11:00 am

Purfleet Train StationFree

Pen to Print: Poems & Feelings Poetry Group with Amaka & Michelle

Sunday 31 May

Poetry Studio with Ruth Beddow WANDSWORTH

Sun 31 May · 2:00 pm

Morocco Bound Bookshop Wandsworth£11.33 - £17.80

+ 1 more date

Celebrating Nina Salaman's Life and Poetry

Monday 1 June

Goodge Street Picture Hunt

Mon 1 Jun · 1:30 pm

Goodge Street StationFree

Word Space - Poetry open mic, writing workshop, words-based chill Kings X

Tuesday 2 June

Sophia Thakur + Latir

Tue 2 Jun · 7:00 pm

Dalston Eastern Curve Garden£20.00

Guest Event: Magma Poetry Competition 2025/26 Winners Showcase

Wednesday 3 June

The White House Poetry Group

Wed 3 Jun · 10:00 am

The White House

+ 4 more dates

Bad Queer by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan: Book Launch, Q&A + Poetry Open Mic

June 2026

Free Mind - Spoken Word

Thu 4 Jun · 7:00 pm

13 Bradbury St£3.00 - £60.00

+ 3 more dates

Poems on the Underground - 40th Anniversary Celebration

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Caxton To Contemporary

Thu 28 May · 4:00 pm

Room 349, Senate House, Malet StreetFree

Late Thursday

Thu 28 May · 6:30 pm

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

FREE Poetry Open Mic Night - RIVERS EDITION - LONDON RIVERS WEEK - THAMES21

Thu 28 May · 6:30 pm

Putney LibraryFree

3000 Miles From Home with Dee Majek

Thu 28 May · 7:00 pm

Streatham Library, 63 Streatham High RoadFree

Poems Not Bombs at the Trades Hall, Walthamstow

Thu 28 May · 7:00 pm

Walthamstow Trades HallFree

+ 6 more dates

DeepChats - Spoken Word Sessions (May - "Mayday")

Thu 28 May · 7:00 pm

The Clissold Arms£7.77 - £9.99

Poetry Practice

Fri 29 May · 6:00 pm

The FlorenceFree

Women in Hip Hop - Poetry SLAM!

Fri 29 May · 6:15 pm

The Source, Source Studios£5.00

Bethnal Beats @ The Beehive

Fri 29 May · 7:00 pm

The BeehiveFree

Poetry Open Mic Night

Fri 29 May · 7:00 pm

80 Hill Rise£2.99 - £6.99

Scratch on Toast 6

Fri 29 May · 7:30 pm

Home Studio London£7.00 - £9.00

TWELVE ACTS OF SHELTER: ACT 5

Fri 29 May · 7:30 pm

Reference Point£8.00

Pen to Print: Poems & Feelings Poetry Group with Amaka & Michelle

Sat 30 May · 1:00 pm

Dagenham Library and Family HubFree

The Penrose Web + The High Span + Wolf Howard

Sat 30 May · 1:30 pm

Betsey Trotwood£14.30

Birdsong: Collaborative Poetry Translation Workshop with Elhum Shakerifar

Sat 30 May · 2:00 pm

Aga Khan Centre£3.00 - £5.00

DARE TO SPEAK 13: Spoken Word & Poetry Night

Sat 30 May · 6:30 pm

The Libra Theatre Cafe

A Night in the Future : The Giving Style + Temporal Comet + Edith

Sat 30 May · 7:30 pm

The Jago£8.24

Feral Family

Sat 30 May · 7:30 pm

Sebright ArmsFree

Celebrating Nina Salaman's Life and Poetry

Sun 31 May · 2:00 pm

Willesden Jewish Cemetery (United Synagogue)£5.00

Poetry @ Omnibus 2026 – Omnibus Theatre

Sun 31 May · 4:00 pm

Omnibus Theatre

Francesca Dego & Alessandro Taverna + Pre-Concert Talk

Sun 31 May · 5:30 pm

Conway Hall£7.18 - £15.82

Live&Lit: POETRY & PAINTING! Open mic & Live Band

Sun 31 May · 6:00 pm

Peckham Levels£14.00 - £24.00

Word Space - Poetry open mic, writing workshop, words-based chill Kings X

Mon 1 Jun · 6:00 pm

Jamboree

Poetry Writing Workshop: Week 3 - Absence and Erasure

Mon 1 Jun · 6:30 pm

Morocco Bound£11.33 - £17.80

Brutalist Poetry Group

Mon 1 Jun · 8:00 pm

Walthamstow Trades HallFree

+ 12 more dates

Guest Event: Magma Poetry Competition 2025/26 Winners Showcase

Tue 2 Jun · 7:00 pm

Theatreship£5.00

Rythym of Africa ft Olusegun The Stallion

Tue 2 Jun · 7:30 pm

21 Parkfield Street£22.55 - £44.88

Discuss: Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño

Tue 2 Jun · 7:30 pm

Trafalgar ArmsFree

Philip Larkin Double Bill - Almost Instinct Almost True

Tue 2 Jun · 7:30 pm

Old Red Lion Pub And Playhouse£20.00

The Artist’s Way: a 12 week course for creatives and wannabe creatives.

Tue 2 Jun · 7:45 pm

Goldsmiths ArmsFrom £150.00

+ 1 more date

Wild Words

Tue 2 Jun · 8:00 pm

The Lawrence ArmsFree

Bad Queer by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan: Book Launch, Q&A + Poetry Open Mic

Wed 3 Jun · 7:00 pm

Morocco Bound£4.00 - £14.47

New Roots presents Gabriel Moreno & The Quivering Poets

Wed 3 Jun · 8:30 pm

Green Note£15.40

Poems on the Underground - 40th Anniversary Celebration

Thu 4 Jun · 7:30 pm

Keats Community Library£13.20