London Lit Plus

[ July 11, 2008; 9:45 am to 4:00 pm. ] Join Tony White, Science Museum writer in residence for summer 2008, for a short story workshop at the Science Museum. The workshop is inspired by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s Listening Post, which can be seen every day at the museum until February 2010.

Listening Post immerses the viewer in a rhythm of computer-synthesised voices reading, [...]

[ 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 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 [...]

[ July 12, 2008; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Presented by The Sohemian Society in association with The London Adventure.

A guided walk around Patrick Hamilton’s world with Nigel Jones and Marc Glendening

Meet at Earls Court station, Earls Court Road exit. This jouney in deepest Hangover Square territory will take appoximately two hours and conclude at the King’s Head, 17 Hogarth Place (off Earls Court [...]