{"title": "ignitionpress launch: Rebecca Ferrier and Jack Westmore", "start": "2026-11-21T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Poetry Society", "address": "22 Betterton Street, WC2H 9BX London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A book launch evening at the Poetry Café celebrating two new poetry pamphlets from the award-winning press ignitionpress. The featured writers are Rebecca Ferrier, an Edinburgh-based author and poet whose debut novel The Salt Bind was released in 2026, and Jack Westmore, a London-based poet and software engineer for whom Faster than the speed of sound is his debut pamphlet. Ferrier's pamphlet is Stricken, and she is finishing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at Northumbria University. Westmore co-edits the online magazine Seaford Review and is completing a masters in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ignitionpress-launch-rebecca-ferrier-and-jack-westmore-95032/", "official_url": "https://poetrysociety.org.uk/event/ignitionpress-launch-rebecca-ferrier-and-jack-westmore/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-21T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Poetry Society", "address": "22 Betterton Street, WC2H 9BX London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Dare-Gale Press: New Poetry", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Horse Hospital", "address": "Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening of contemporary poetry at which four outstanding poets, including Fran Lock and Stephen Romer, read from their new work. 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It is presented by the Goldsmiths Writers' Centre, directed by Tom Lee and Amy Sackville, which exists to encourage new writing and stimulate debate about all forms of literature. Alex Hyde is an Associate Professor at University College London whose debut novel Violets was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize; Lizzy Stewart is a London-based author and illustrator who writes for children and adults and teaches Illustration at Goldsmiths. 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The book is a 60-page work of sonnets that takes on the polycrisis of the present with intelligence, spirit and a poetics of overload. Sam Rodilosso grew up in Annapolis, Maryland, studied in Washington D.C. and Edinburgh, and is interested in translation and global literary exchange.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/housmans-poetry-series-x-spam-sam-rodilosso-41521/", "official_url": "https://housmans.com/event/housmans-poetry-series-x-spam-sam-rodilosso/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a9f724700d83411bd293cc0f4a603fcbc8659460d7b9f58d1271e6224325e412-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Something Different: This Time Consumed Poetry EP Launch", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T23:50:00Z", "place": "Home", "address": "Deptford High Street 37, SE8 4AD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music"], "description": "A night of authentic songs and poems with something to say, celebrating the release of Sam Castell-Ward's 'This Time Consumed' poetry EP. 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The Poetry Society hosts the evening, with extended readings from contributors to the autumn issue, including Maura Dooley and Hannah Lowe, as well as the winners of the 2026 Poetry London Prize. It takes place at The Poetry Café. 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It is part of the W.O.R.D Creative Writing Workshops and is run by Lucy Furlong, a workshop facilitator, writer, poet and walking artist whose work has been nominated for the Forward Prize and featured in The Guardian and on BBC Radio 4. As autumn deepens and the clocks go back, participants get the chance to try writing seasonal poems and create atmosphere in their writing. The workshop costs £15.00, has limited spaces, and doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/creative-writing-workshop-season-of-mists-50328/", "official_url": "https://olrcafe.co.uk/event/creative-writing-workshop-season-of-mists/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2c81263d22a41f92493777f58a480b61a5e49bb328b448afa7c36136a6bf3e98-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Writeidea Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00Z", "place": "Bethnal Green Library", "address": "Cambridge Heath Road, E2 0HL London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "Writeidea Festival 2026 is a festival of events with authors, running over three days in November at the Tower Hamlets Town Hall in Whitechapel. Its programme features award-winning writer and comedian Deborah Frances-White, legendary music director Tim Pope, performer and broadcaster Cally Beaton, award-winning author and historian Tharik Hussain, and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Dean Atta, among many more. All the events are free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/writeidea-festival-2026-34957/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf69ddeb75718192664c8508326a4ad8f979b054a3d4b4ab7c7a1bb4f630e615-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Parthian Books: Dannie Abse Collection Launch", "start": "2026-11-19T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T20:30:00Z", "place": "The Poetry Society", "address": "22 Betterton Street, WC2H 9BX London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A book launch at the Poetry Café marking Parthian Books' new Dannie Abse Collection, four of the Welsh writer's works reissued with new introductions. The evening features writer Julia Bell, who introduces Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve, and Susie Wild, Parthian's Publishing Editor, who introduces Ask The Moon. Dannie Abse (1923-2014) was a Cardiff-born poet, doctor and novelist who served as President of the Poetry Society and won awards including the Wales Book of the Year. The collection also includes The Presence and his autobiography Goodbye, Twentieth Century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/parthian-books-dannie-abse-collection-launch-95030/", "official_url": "https://poetrysociety.org.uk/event/launch-of-parthians-dannie-abse-collection/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Allie Esiri: Sleep", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Newham Bookshop", "address": "Barking Road 743-745, E13 9ER London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening of live poetry on sleep, presented by the events series 5x15 and supported by Newham Bookshop. Allie Esiri and Paterson Joseph appear on stage, with Esiri's 'Sleep: A Poem for Every Quiet Hour of the Night' and Joseph's '10 Children Who Changed The World' among the featured books.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/allie-esiri-sleep-41758/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Dead [Women] Poets Séance: Sophie Herxheimer & Clare Pollard resurrect Amy Levy & Christina Rossetti", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The London Library", "address": "St James's Square 14, SW1Y 4LG London", "price": "From £8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening séance at The London Library in which two living poets conjure the spirits of their literary foremothers, the Victorian poets Amy Levy and Christina Rossetti. Poet-mediums Sophie Herxheimer and Clare Pollard will commune with the spirits of these subversive, darkly imaginative outsider poets, sharing their lives, works and influence, with readings haunted by their ghosts and compered by poet Helen Bowell of Dead [Women] Poets Society. The group, who since 2015 have been resurrecting women and non-binary poets of the past, will continue the resurrections with an open mic where poets and performers of all and no genders may take the stage; for every poem of your own, you should also read one by a dead woman or non-binary poet. Books by the guest poets, dead poets and D[W]PS merch will be available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dead-women-poets-seance-sophie-herxheimer-clare-pollard-resu-39395/", "official_url": "https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/dead-women-poets-seance-sophie-herxheimer-clare-pollard-resurrect-amy-levy-christina", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb5a2d4b77ab0484788ea3fc28643cd614cba5a354828998d592a276496e82eb-2000.webp"}]}