{"title": "Tapsalteerie Poetry at The Betsy Trotwood", "start": "2026-10-28T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-28T21:00:00Z", "place": "Betsey Trotwood", "address": "Farringdon Road 56, EC1R 3BL London", "price": "Free but ticketed", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tapsalteerie-poetry-at-the-betsy-trotwood-tickets-2002800829194", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening of poetry readings at the Betsey Trotwood. It features four award-winning poets: Sarah Stewart, Taylor Strickland, Jim Carruth and Stewart Sanderson. 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The group is led by Brian Ellis, and attendees are asked to let him know they plan to come and send their choices in advance. 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This edition features headline guest Cia Mangat, a London writer and zinemaker whose work has appeared in fourteen poems, gal-dem, Propel and bath magg, been broadcast by the BBC, and whose debut pamphlet is Lobe. She founded and edits Zindabad, a zine for people in diasporas worldwide, and facilitates writing and zine-making workshops.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/testing-ground-open-mic-poetry-and-performance-41015/", "official_url": "https://www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-details/testing-ground-open-mic-poetry-and-performance-5", "image": "https://noky.io/images/35e394fc8082cd3e1ec982f1dba926c866c710cf134c68f4b9ed0beefa27cab3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "FREE TRIALS #3: MayDay Rooms radical poetry archiving and readings", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T23:00:00Z", "place": "maydayrooms", "address": "88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "FREE TRIALS #3 is the third in a new monthly series of events engaging with the MayDay Rooms radical poetry archival collection. It opens with participants collectively pulling out the archive, reading and scanning materials together, followed by readings from the archive and then from two contemporary poets, Lila Matsumoto and Sarah Riggs. The collection features historical and contemporary dissident, heretical, non-conformist and revolutionary poetries, and the series invites people to congregate and discuss these texts. 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