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Barking and Dagenham4 Brent1 Bromley1 Camden38 City of London6 Croydon3 Ealing1 Greenwich6 Hackney34 Hammersmith and Fulham9 Haringey3 Hillingdon3 Islington17 Kensington and Chelsea7 Kingston upon Thames1 Lambeth22 Lewisham5 Merton1 Newham7 Richmond upon Thames4 Southwark21 Tower Hamlets20 Waltham Forest3 Wandsworth14 Westminster21

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

Tonight

Write Club

Wed 27 May · 10:00 am

Creative WorksFree

Writer in Residence: 121s with poet Jennifer Wong (RCN members only)

Wed 27 May · 11:00 am

Royal College of NursingFree

+ 5 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 Silly

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

Wed 27 May · 6:00 pm

The Old Queens HeadFree

Raw Rotations — Raw Material Music & Media Education Ltd.

Wed 27 May · 6:00 pm

Raw Material Music & Media Education

+ 1 more date

Ten years together: Poetry sessions for NPG’s anniversary book & celebration

Wed 27 May · 6:15 pm

Stratford LibraryFree

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

KOTJ presents AWAY FANS / MOFGY + Barking Poets

Wed 27 May · 7:30 pm

The Blue Post£8.50

La Cozna and Mary Hampton

Wed 27 May · 7:30 pm

Cafe OTO£17.00

Martha Sprackland & James Butler: John of the Cross

Wed 27 May

London Review Bookshop

LOST SOULS POETRY OPEN MIC

Thu 28 May

The ExhibitUp to £5.50

Tomorrow

SPIN Show: Interactive Poetry Performance

Thu 28 May · 10:30 am

Fulham LibraryFree

This Week

SPIN - The SPINE Festival Show

Fri 29 May · 10:30 am

Swiss Cottage LibraryFree

This Weekend

Saturday 30 May

Purfleet Poems in the Garden

Sat 30 May · 11:00 am

Purfleet Train StationFree

Sunday 31 May

Word Space Poetry Workshop

Sun 31 May · 1:00 pm

The Castle Cinema£5.00 - £15.00

Celebrating Nina Salaman's Life and Poetry

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📚Book Club / Literary

🌟Immersive Experience

Caxton To Contemporary

Thu 28 May · 4:00 pm

Room 349, Senate House, Malet StreetFree

Late Thursday

Thu 28 May · 6:00 pm

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Poetry at The Gate Library

Thu 28 May · 6:15 pm

Forest Gate LibraryFree

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

Thu 28 May · 6:30 pm

Putney LibraryFree

Poems Not Bombs at the Trades Hall, Walthamstow

Thu 28 May · 7:00 pm

Walthamstow Trades HallFree

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

Thu 28 May · 7:00 pm

The Clissold Arms£7.77 - £9.99

3000 Miles From Home with Dee Majek

Thu 28 May · 7:00 pm

Streatham Library, 63 Streatham High RoadFree

Elizabeth Bishop’s Styles: Andrew Dickinson and Peter McDonald

Thu 28 May

London Review Bookshop

+ 1 more date

JAM SANDWICH - LIVE MUSIC & SPOKEN WORD

Thu 28 May

The CLF Art Lounge

Creative Development

Fri 29 May · 5:00 pm

LiftFree

Poetry Practice

Fri 29 May · 6:00 pm

The FlorenceFree

Poetry Open Mic Night At Culture House

Fri 29 May · 6:00 pm

Culture HouseFree

Women in Hip Hop - Poetry SLAM!

Fri 29 May · 6:15 pm

The Source, Source Studios£5.00

Poetry Open Mic Night

Fri 29 May · 7:00 pm

80 Hill Rise£6.99

Bethnal Beats @ The Beehive

Fri 29 May · 7:00 pm

The BeehiveFree

Paper Tiger Poetry

Fri 29 May · 7:00 pm

Tea House Theatre£5.00

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

Little Books of Magic, Poetry and Imagination

Sat 30 May · 12:00 pm

East Ham LibraryFree

Word Space & Waterstones: Poetry Writing Workshop

Sat 30 May · 12:00 pm

Waterstones£6.50 - £15.00

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

Ink & Intention: a Poetry Workshop

Sat 30 May · 2:00 pm

Archetype Coffee£20.00

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

Extra Second London

Sat 30 May · 6:30 pm

St. Margaret's House

Feral Family

Sat 30 May · 7:30 pm

Sebright ArmsFree

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

Sat 30 May · 7:30 pm

The Jago£8.24

Celebrating Nina Salaman's Life and Poetry

Sun 31 May · 2:00 pm

Willesden Jewish Cemetery (United Synagogue)£5.00

Poetry Studio with Ruth Beddow WANDSWORTH

Sun 31 May · 2:00 pm

Morocco Bound Bookshop Wandsworth£11.33 - £17.80

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