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Unless otherwise indicated, these listings are for reading series. The general location is given. By "reading" I mean a range of performative activities based on presentation of innovative poetry, including, and why not? reading the texts. By "events", I mean a wider focus than performance or reading of text, or of art form involved than just poetry (though it may be involved. It's all fuzzy! That's the point, of course.) There are also of course launches, usually involving readings, at a varying number of places by some publishers, both large and small (or even organised by the writers themselves). Full details for all London events are on the Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre webpage Innovative Poetry Readings In London.
As with all the material on this site, please contact me at peter@greatworks.org.uk for any suggestions for additions, or to correct any errors. And please note that as on all these lists, a date in italics indicates the last date of fresh material being uploaded to any site; but nonetheless even if it's not live any more, there's interest there. ℵ is used to indicate an addition (or major alteration) to the listing. Most recent revision September 23, 2019
"a small press, publishing collective, events organiser and critical reading group dedicated to emerging and experimental literatures, particularly those from neurodiverse, queer, and ethnic minority communities." Kashif Sharma-Patel, Azad Ashim Sharma, and Devin Maisuria run superb readings! events London
monthly experimental events curated by Sad Press, Moot Press & Hesterglock Press Bristol
"our mission is to present emerging and well-established artist to a wider audience on a very laid-back evening of art talks in a cosy social space." "Join us at for an evening of talks about art and its whereabouts and discover the processes and works of 5 ground-breaking artists, from up-and-coming young designers to established poets!" When using poets, people of definite interest. Michal Szost is the organiser; also on Instagram talks & discussions London
"Building peoples confidence, esteem and self worth through art and poetry": Philip Davenport and Lois Blackburn's Community Interest Company doing projects aroundish of Manchester
"a forum for discussing the historical avant-garde (Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, etc.) as well as other forms of experimentation in 19th and 20th-century literature, art, music, film and performance." Evi Heinz, Paul Ingram & Robyn Jakeman are the names given; also @agstudies 
London study group
"was born in 1999. It is a non-competitive open mic event for poets to air their work. Although BPS is a poetry organisation, any genre of spoken word is welcome. BPS is open to all levels, from the complete novice to the published professional." Facebook page managed by Asha Impson and Dolores Luxedo. poetry group Brighton
This excellent little bookshop runs interesting, crowded and friendly events in its cellar @BurleyFisher London
Hamish Dunbar's innovative music venue often houses activities that will (or should!) interest innovative poets performance events London
"Poetries in Dialogue": Jonathan Mann's quite wonderful poetry events ending with Q&A London
established by Callie Gardner and Josh Robinson in 2014, currently curated by Ailbhe Darcy, Nathanael Jones, Julia Rose Lewis, Wanda O'Connor and Josh Robinson Cardiff
but Facebook can be more current; may be accessible on School of Advanced Studies Seminars webpage; Robert Hampson and Amy Cutler organising this London seminar series
Birkbeck University seminar series London
matt martin and David Ashford do good events, with book launches, range of readers & even open mic London 2018
excellent Datableed magazine "actualizes" in this form, thanks to Eleanor Perry and Juha Virtanen Canterbury
"a conversation between female poets, living and dead, through the medium of readings, interviews and essays. Our principal line-up is composed of Jasmine Simms, Sarah Fletcher, Katie Byford and Helen Bowell" events nationwide
Edward Shipsey organised this; "Different people doing different things together. Hopefully a sort of dialogue emerges between the different things of some sort. Working between improvisation and composition i.e. some ideas but some in the moment creation/reaction as well." look out for more! performance event London
"DIY or Cry: taking a break in 2018" bookfair based on zine culture, organised by Helena Wee, Sofia Niazi and Hamja Ahsan bookfair London
run by enjoy your homes press and Girasol Press Sheffield
associated with the Research Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing, University of Southampton
"voices in a strange land . . . brings together writers from repressive regimes and war-torn situations and it equally embraces migrants and exiles." Founding Director: Jennifer Langer, and provides a range of activities, eg readings, including the Exiled Lit Cafe in the Poetry Café London & beyond
"Archiving our herstories since 1975" hosts readings organised by Virna Teixeira's Carnaval Press London
"Home of The Poetry Book Fair & The Poetry Magazine Fair": both excellent events include readings, founded by Chrissie Williams & Joey Connolly, now managed by The Poetry Society bookfairs London
music, performance & poetry events organised by Sam Bailey at Canterbury
"Information about the Hay Poetry Jamborees, the Glasfryn Seminars, readings and launches", a wide range of complex performance activities centred on Wales, occasionally venturing beyond, with the names Lyndon Davies, Graham Hartill, Penny Hallas and John Goodby linked with the overall enterprise events Wales & beyond
"a 'live' series of events celebrating experimental approaches to writing, poetry and music. Alternating between the page, performance, sound and text, GRG is commissioned by The Dock Road Press." Liverpool
new reading/performance series hosted by Mark Jackson mjb London
"a feminist book club" with a keen interest in some excellent female poets organising events in Oxford and now London
"Music poetry and performance", organised & hosted by Paul Ingram and Edward Shipsey — best source of info former's Facebook page London
"Poetry readings and Publications": long-lasting and important reading series, run by Joe Luna & Eleanor Careless Brighton
"is a new performance night held monthly at Hundred Years Gallery, showcasing performance art, live and experimental performance" performance event London
primarily an innovative music venue, and through that putting on potentially interesting events for poets, and also used often as a poetry venue readings and events London
"A spoken word event featuring established and up-and-coming talent" London
the listings page I set up is now hosted by Birkbeck CPRC, and maintained largely by matt martin listings for London & around
"a large antichoir which includes many familiar faces from Sheffield's leftfield music, poetry and visual arts scene" directors: Martin Archer and Alan Halsey Sheffield antichoir
"improvisation • right weird • pants • poetry • film • dance": Hugh Metcalfe's multimedia performance events, "London's leading forum for free improvisation and marginal music and performance" now with offspring in Ipswich! London & Ispwich
"provides (mostly) local writers, musicians, poets, and storytellers with a place to perform and an appreciative West Hampstead audience." Including on occasion persons of interest to BIP; Will Lashley put as Team members on Facebook London
gives events, while The 'Locomotrix': Showcasing Poetry and Experimental Literature at Housmans on Housmans Blog describes its aims, team: Serena Braida & Christina at Housmans London
Interesting names can appear here to talk or read London
critically involved with Ol' Ez' seminar series London
organised by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers(ARB) for radical booksellers, publishers, artists and activists of all stripes, including some poetry publishers bookfair London
organised by David Grundy London
"an experimental literature and new media organisation. We commission and produce new performance and digital work that engages with language in new ways." Run by Nathan Jones — commissioning agency & producer events Liverpool and beyond
organised by Birkbeck's The Mechanics' Institute Review, Stephen Willey: Poetry Editor; Fran Lock: Guest Poetry Editor London
is what it says it is; editor: Clare Pollard, and runs events, eg readings London
"the life of poetry": Jan 2015 or blog April 2013 but still potentially occasional events at this historic venue in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
hosts exhibitions, events and readings, as well as issuing information on readings & events nationally events & readings London (& beyond); listings across Britain
bi-monthly poetic & performative experiments in Manchester
"Poetry, film, theatre, and miscellaneous performance, premonition of disaster, offering a variety of new linguistic-visual force fields for the cash-strapped and overtly discontented." performances and reading London
"for presses publishing work that pushes through the boundaries of the normal, whether that's the sociopolitical normal, gender norms, or formal norms of poetry." Organised by Veer Books London bookfair
"multi-media readings, performance, and film" hosted by Khaled Hakim in London
supported by the University of Nottingham's School of English and Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham, & organised by Lila Matsumoto: seminars, reading group, and poetry performances Nottingham
London-based performance collective for women of colour, podcast on Europe; or on the founder, Rachel Long's blog performances & events London
"a new bi-monthly performance and publication series. We are super excited to return with another night of performances, a buffet, drinking and dancing" — individual events on Facebook but @OUTELSE1: "NEW BI-MONTHLY NIGHT OF PERFORMANCES HAPPENING IN AND AROUND LONDON. KNOCKS ABOUT WITH LITTLE MAGAZINE, SUMMAT" seems to cover series; organised by Alex Walsh readings & performances London
bookshop also running occasional readings London
runs readings, plus workshops and residencies — thank you Ghazal Mosadeq! workshops & readings London (+ Tehran & Toronto)
"foundation for contemporary art": "not-for-profit art institution and educational charity that operates purely for the public benefit" based in an art gallery, with a constant interest also in poetry, giving reading & workshops; Ziba Ardalan is the Founder, Director and Curator workshops, events & readings London
"Arts venue, café & bar offering unfussy brews, food & booze since August 2013" & now a major venue for readings etc London
organised by Richard Barrett, Gareth Twose and Rachel Sills Manchester
Steve Spence is organiser Plymouth
"'How does it work?' 'You give me a title, I write you a poem, You pay what you think it's worth.'" Can be contacted via their agent, Sternberg Clarke Entertainment, or from Morbid Books' radically subversive website poets for hire anywhere?
"an arts organisation which promotes a love of poetry to new audiences through live events, projects, commissions and participation" events and readings London
"Poet-psychogeographer" Niall McDevitt's blog, with details of his fascinating walks in London
many readings held here, in the premises of The Poetry Society London
"a north west radical poetry festival" exploring emergency and liveness in radical poetic art festival Salford & Manchester
"the UK's largest provider of poetry education, a national arts organisation providing inspiring tuition and opportunities for poets and poetry audiences, founded in 1997 by poets Mimi Khalvati, Jane Duran and Pascale Petit"; well, if you need it and can afford it, there are some good poets running courses & workshops London & beyond
"AHRC-funded | Poetry translation in poet-advisor-poet trios: collaborative, cross-language and creative processes": Academic/poetic research into collaborative translation, running occasional events; a collaboration between Newcastle University and The University of Roehampton events Newcastle & London
"Community Arts and Not for Profit arts and literature development" from Shaun Belcher: workshops, graphics, scribing & projects Nottingham
with assistance from the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre and Humanities and Arts Research Institute Simon Pomery curates a series of text-sound events in London
"a monthly interdisciplinary spoken word, performance art and open mic event" managed by Jessica Tillings, connected with Edge Hill University Ormskirk, Lancs
"East London's independent arts centre" hosts much slam-type "spoken word", but, crucially, is SJ Fowler's main venue in Central London for his events London
readings & seminars etc London/Egham, Surrey
includes BIP events from Royal Holloway festival London/occasionally Egham, Surrey
"Reading and responding to the present through women's experimental writing" hosts an ongoing series of events, moving through various artistic, private, and cultural spaces, and is led by Georgina Colby and Susan Rudy range of events across London
Shearsman Press booklaunches — thank you, Tony Frazer London
"Experimental spoken word and text based open mic" at New River Studios, London
book art etc as well as poetry, organised by Helen Mitchell, and includes readings bookfair London
"Semi-regular house reading series" linked to the magazine edited by Gizem Okulu and David Grundy London
independent bookfair with readings, seminars, launches, bookstalls etc, with good poetry representation, and all free, from Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham and the Creative Writing Team at De Montfort University, Leicester bookfair Leicester
organised by Michael Egan, Nathan Jones, Robert Sheppard and Eleanor Rees Liverpool
most recent event organised by Samuel Solomon, Joseph Luna, Keston Sutherland, and Natalia Cecire festival Brighton
at Waterstones London-Tottenham Court Road (other London Waterstones occasionally host interesting readings also) London
organises a yearly festival in rural Dorset, with its wonderful range of contributors festival Stourpaine, Dorset
"is an irregular LGBTQ poetry night organised by JD Howse and Sarah Dawson. It is held upstairs at the Nell of Old Drury, a fabulous theatre pub near Covent Garden. We endeavour to provide a platform for LGBTQ poets creating experimental/innovative work, whatever that might mean to them. We enjoy surprises." Also @TheatreOFailure London
readings linked with Hearing Eye Press London
presented by Liz Adams and Alasdair Paterson Exeter
"a platform for new writers & established authors to perform their work", organised by Richard Skinner London
"will offer a creative playground for artists working across movement and creative writing; a rich programme of workshops, performances, readings and open labs will make space for creatives to share, connect, play and discover." Scott Thurston and Sarie Mairs Slee festival Salford & Manchester
"a series of cross-disciplinary text and performance nights breaking new ground in reading events", which kicked off with an event including Sarah Robinson at a London Gallery — no info on the series rather than the event or eventbrite; Alan Fielden and Jamie Lee the organisers London?
hosted by Niall McDevitt at the Irish Cultural Centre, this new series is likely to have an interest in Irish Innovative Poetry London
"an author favouring publishing house and media network located in the South East of England to represent, develop and encourage writers and artists", editor-in-chief: Connor Sandsby Kent and beyond
is venue events page but you'll get more info on its Facebook page; organised by Nicki Heinen at Vortex Jazz club London
"A literary cultural centre" in the energetic care of SJ Fowler Kingston-upon-Thames, London
"A vital resource for poetry" and Writers Forum Information "ambition for the Poetry, not the poet", the blog of Writers Forum Workshop founded by Bob Cobbing, who passed its care onto Laurence Upton and Adrian Clarke, and still convened by Lawrence Upton (with Tina Bass) London writers workshop
formed by many members of the above as a separate group, chaired by Antony John London writers workshop
organised by Jeff Hilson, and my favourite reading series London
Callie Gardner's excellent magazine also does readings Leeds (and occasionally elsewhere)
"is a collective of poets, readers and critics based in and hosting events around Canterbury, supported by the Centre for Modern Poetry at the University of Kent." Wide ranging reading series based at the University Canterbury
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British & Irish online magazines, e-publishers etc
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audio and video sites and archives
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