Events
- The Invisible City
- Keynote Address: Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit
- Panel 1a: Walking the City
- Panel 1b: The Politics of Space
- Panel 1c: Urban Technologies
- Poetry and the British Museum
- First Story Creative Writing Workshops
- Run, Jump, Shoot
- Panel 2a: Conceptual City
- Panel 2b: Contested Spaces
- Panel 2c: Working in the City
- Panel 3a: Nightwalking
- Panel 3b: Run, Jump, Shoot
- Panel 3c: Architexture
- Debate: Living and Writing in London
- London: A History in Verse
- Man Booker Prize Evening: A.S. Byatt and Alan Hollinghurst
2012 Highlights
London: A History in Verse
9 May 2012
17:45 - 18:45 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
supported by Waterstones
The poet and UCL Professor in English and American Literature, Mark Ford, will be joined by Daljit Nagra, Sarah Maguire, and Alan Jenkins to launch this wonderful edition of London verse: London: A History in Verse. "Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature." Edited by Mark Ford and published by Harvard University Press. Copies will be available.
