SPOKEN WORD AND POETRY EVENTS IN LONDON
SPOKEN WORD AND POETRY EVENTS IN LONDON
Most Popular Spoken Word and Poetry Events in London
Sun 23 Nov - Sun 7 Dec 2025
Sandi Toksvig
Sunday 21 September 2025
Following the sell-out 2022 tour of Next Slide Please, the comedian, broadcaster, writer and campaigner returns to theatres with an evening to celebrate the publication of her new novel, Friends of Dorothy. The show will be packed with sil...
Patti Smith
Sunday 12 - Monday 13 October 2025
A true icon of rock and roll and counter-culture, punk poet laureate and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Patti Smith is known for fusing rock and poetry in her work. In 2025, she marks the historic 50 year celebration of one of the m...
Impromptu Shakespeare
Tuesday 18 - Wednesday 19 November 2025
Bursting with love, poetry, comedy, tragedy, mistaken identity and everything in-between, Impromptu Shakespeare brings you an entirely new and unique Shakespeare play inspired by audience suggestions, to delight Shakespeare nerds and newb...
Grayson Perry
Sunday 23 November 2025
Chelmsford-born Turner Prize-winning acclaimed cross-dressing artist Grayson Perry CBE is as well known for his colourful pottery and tapestries as he is for his books, TV shows and social commentary. Using all these different media, he ...
Jon Ronson's Psychopath Night
Sunday 23 November 2025
Do Psychopaths rule the world? How do we define normal? Are you friends with a psychopath? Are you worried YOU might be one? Fifteen years has passed since he embarked on the adventure that became his ground-breaking and best-selling work, ...
Grayson Perry
Sunday 7 December 2025
Chelmsford-born Turner Prize-winning acclaimed cross-dressing artist Grayson Perry CBE is as well known for his colourful pottery and tapestries as he is for his books, TV shows and social commentary. Using all these different media, he ...
