London Lit Plus

[ July 3, 2008; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Poets read their work at Speaker’s Corner for The London Magazine and Trespass as part of the 02 Wireless Festival.

Speakers include Roddy Lumsden, Paul Lyalls, Todd Swift, Paul Birtill, Yara El-Sherbini, Simon Munnery, Neil Curry, A.F. Harrold, Agnes Meadows, Richard Tyrone Jones, Maurice Riordan, Tim Wells, Agife Mannix, Tom Chivers and Sascha Akhtar.

Bring a poem [...]

[ July 19, 2008; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Niall McDevitt leads a walk from Yeats’s Woburn Walk flat to The Olde Cheshire Cheese pub, a trip through Pre-Raphaelitism/Symbolism/Decadance/Modernism, meeting such associates as Olivia Shakespear, Rabindranath Tagore, Maud Gonne, Oscar Wilde, Lionel Johnson, Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound and many others.

Recommended reading:

Roy Foster, W.B. Yeats: The Apprentice Mage, [...]

[ July 12, 2008; 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ]

A special chance to meet the artists from Britain’s newest comic, the DFC. Find out about the characters and do some cartooning yourself. Fun for everyone, FREE for kids.

12.00 Monkey Business - Meet the artists and writers behind ‘Monkey Nuts’, Bob and Lorenzo Etherington. Find out how they created the character and get some tips [...]

[ July 17, 2008; 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The Sohemian Society present THE SUAREZ SEANCE: REVISITING THE DARK WORLD OF DEREK RAYMOND

This event will be introduced by writer Cathi Unsworth, author of The Singer, and will include a live performance of the original Dora Suarez sound track, performed by James Johnston, Terry Edwards and Richard Strange. There will also be readings from Raymond’s [...]