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 be getting any ...
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 ...
Information as material Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street 28th April, 7pm Writer collective information as material (iam) begin their residency at the Whitechapel Gallery on the 28th of April, ...
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 ...
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 titles, was an incredible success. ...
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 features performances of a ...
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 few years ago. ...
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 ...
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- ous look: the ...
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 ...
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 far 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 towels for ...
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 mine. I ...
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. That’s just how ...
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 the ...
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 celebrate National ...
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 ...
