Situated in the heart of London, on the banks of the River Thames is the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, a beacon for arts and culture for over 70 years. The 2,700 capacity Royal Festival Hall ...

Folk music legend Ralph McTell celebrates his 80th birthday with a solo show, armed with his guitar, 60 years of songs and a lifetime of spellbinding stories. McTell’s six-decade career has seen him ...

Awarded annually for the best collection of new verse in English published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland, it was inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society’s 40th birthday, ...

Over the dark winter nights, our site is illuminated by outdoor artworks that play with light and colour – explore to discover them all. Each artist uses light and colour in playful ways, at the same ...

Explore poetry off the page in Astra Papachristodoulou’s debut solo exhibition, where poems exist as sculpture, objects and textiles. Papachristodoulou’s object poems encourage interactive and shared ...

Enjoy our latest Hayward Gallery exhibition, a world of multisensory installations and sculptures, away from the crowds in this Members-only private evening view. Haegue Yang’s work spans a vast range ...

Discover new poets through this free online collection of brilliant, moving, funny and groundbreaking poems curated by our specialist poetry librarians. Search the poems by type or by topic, or use ...

Wolverhampton Literature Festival is open for its seventh poetry competition, for poets from across the globe. This years theme is open, so poets can send work on any subject. Winners will be ...

Kick off the new year in raucous style with the musicians of the Ceilidh Liberation Front ...