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• Wed 14 Mar 18 · Book Launch: Transitory by Anne Pia (Blackwell's Bookshop Edinburgh, Edinburgh)

• Fri 22 Sep 17 · Poetry and prose by women in the First World War charms (National Army Museum, London)

• Thu 20 Jul 17 · Reading Ruefle, Ruocco and Carrington with Heather Phillipson (Drawing Room, London)

• Mon 24 Apr 17 · Carlo Gebler (Irish Literary Society, London)

• Mon 27 Mar 17 · Mícheál Mac Craith (Irish Literary Society, London)

• Mon 27 Feb 17 · Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Irish Literary Society, London)

• Mon 28 Nov 16 · London Irish Poetic Tradition (Irish Literary Society, London)

• Mon 26 Sep 16 · Alice Milligan, 150 (Irish Literary Society, London)

• Mon 25 Jan 16 · Ireland 1916: Death of a Literary Revival (Irish Literary Society, London)

• Mon 30 Mar 15 · Martin Dyar reads from Maiden Names (Irish Literary Society, London)

• Mon 9 Jun 14 · Dylan Thomas:Dispelling the Myths (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Thu 10 Apr 14 · Intercapillary Places: Mystery and Medicine (Parasol unit, London)

• Sat 30 Nov 13 · Mary Tighe's Influence on Keats (Keats House, London)

• Sun 11 Aug 13 · William Blake, Arbonauts at the Grave (Bunhill Fields Cemetary, London)

• Tue 16 Jul 13 · William Blake and the Left Hemisphere, a talk by Roderick Tweedy (St James's Church, the Meeting Room, the Rectory, London)

• Sat 15 Jun 13 · A Visit to the Exhibition 'Burning Bright' led by the Curator Stella Halkyard (John Rylands Library, Manchester)

• Tue 28 May 13 · The Poet and the Flea: reimagining Blake a talk by G E Gallas (House of William Blake, London)

• Sat 2 Mar 13 · New Media and the Future of Literacy (Wolfson Theatre, London)

• Mon 18 Feb 13 · Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England (King and Queen Pub, London W1)

• Wed 12 Dec 12 · Poetry Reading ‘Street Music: Poems’ with Mike Marqusee (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Mon 3 Dec 12 · The Colony Room (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Mon 3 Dec 12 · The Colony Room (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Sat 17 Nov 12 · ‘Book Event The Legacy of Allen Ginsberg’ with Steve Finbow (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Thu 15 Nov 12 · Keats and Walking - A Pedestrian Tour, June 25th to August 6th 1818 (Keats House, London)

• Sun 16 Sep 12 · Keats and Domestic Gardens 1795-1821 (Keats House, London)

• Thu 7 Jun 12 · Poetry Reading by Fathieh Saudi (The Mosaic Rooms, London)

• Wed 6 Jun 12 · EYAL WEIZMAN: THE LEAST OF ALL POSSIBLE EVILS (The Mosaic Rooms, London)

• Thu 22 Mar 12 · Intercapillary Places: Poetry at Parasol unit (Parasol unit, London)

• Wed 8 Feb 12 · Reflections on the Role of the Intellectual in Society (The Mosaic Rooms, London)

• Tue 7 Feb 12 · Islam, Sufism & Arabic Literature (The Mosaic Rooms, London)

• Sat 4 Feb 12 · Adonis Artist's Talk (The Mosaic Rooms, London)

• Fri 3 Feb 12 · Literary Evening with Adonis and Khaled Mattawa (The Mosaic Rooms, London)

• Thu 17 Nov 11 · Translating What's Not There: reticence in classical Chinese poetry (FREE WORD CENTRE, LONDON)

• Thu 17 Nov 11 · Felicity Lott on Hugo (The French Institute, London)

• Thu 10 Nov 11 · The text's form of life (FREE WORD CENTRE, LONDON)

• Tue 27 Sep 11 · Bard Medicine: Peter 'PenDragon' Moore (The October Gallery, London)

• Tue 22 Feb 11 · Ecstasties of the Mind and Senses/ WHAT RAPHAEL HAD TO DO WITH IT (The Course, London)

• Tue 15 Feb 11 · Ecstasties of the Mind and Senses/ How Symbols Began (The Course, London)

• Tue 8 Feb 11 · TOWN AND COUNTRY - THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN PRINCE/Villa Cetinale (The Course, London)

• Tue 1 Feb 11 · TOWN AND COUNTRY - THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN PRINCE/The Princes Doria Pamphilj and their estates (The Course, London)

• Tue 25 Jan 11 · TOWN AND COUNTRY - THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN PRINCE/The Villa Farnese at Caprarola (The Course, London)

• Tue 18 Jan 11 · TOWN AND COUNTRY - THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN PRINCE/Cardinal Ippolito d'Este's Waterpark in Tivoli. (The Course, London)

• Tue 11 Jan 11 · TOWN AND COUNTRY - THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN PRINCE/Vicino Orisini's Garden at Bamarzo (The Course, London)

• Thu 2 Dec 10 · Larkin25 Lecture - ‘Larkin: The End of the Line’ The Annual English Lecture (University of Hull, Hull)

• Wed 24 Nov 10 · Larkin25 Lecture - Philip Larkin: Life or Art? (University of Hull, Hull)

• Tue 23 Nov 10 · PICTURING DANTE/Through a Glass Darkly and Then ... (The Course, London)

• Tue 16 Nov 10 · PICTURING DANTE/With Beatrice into Paradise (The Course, London)

• Wed 10 Nov 10 · Larkin25 Lecture - Philip to Monica: The Poet's most intimate Correspondence (University of Hull, Hull)

• Tue 9 Nov 10 · PICTURING DANTE/Per Ardua Ad Astra (The Course, London)

• Tue 2 Nov 10 · PICTURING DANTE/Pacing the Nightmare Beautifully (The Course, London)

• Tue 26 Oct 10 · PICTURING DANTE/On Not Abandoning All Hope (The Course, London)

• Mon 25 Oct 10 · From a Season in Hell to the Barricades: Arthur Rimbaud and the Paris Commune of 1871 (Marx Memorial Library, London)

• Tue 19 Oct 10 · TOWN AND COUNTRY - THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN PRINCE/Villas for the Agricultural & Cultural Elite (The Course, London)

• Tue 12 Oct 10 · TOWN AND COUNTRY - THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN PRINCE/The Medici (The Course, London)

• Tue 5 Oct 10 · TOWN AND COUNTRY - THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN PRINCE/Mantua, The Hunchbacked Gonzaga and their faithful (The Course, London)

• Tue 5 Oct 10 · Larkin25 Lecture - The Afterlife of Philip Larkin The 2010 Ferens Distinguished Lecture (University of Hull, Hull)

• Wed 29 Sep 10 · Larkin25 Lecture - Random windows conjuring a street': Larkin and the city (University of Hull, Hull)

• Tue 28 Sep 10 · TOWN AND COUNTRY - THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN PRINCE/The Sforza of Milan (The Course, London)

• Tue 21 Sep 10 · TOWN AND COUNTRY - THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN PRINCE/Duke of Urbino (The Course, London)

• Tue 21 Sep 10 · TOWN AND COUNTRY - THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN PRINCE/Duke of Urbino (The Course, London)

• Thu 1 Jul 10 · What does “Eureka!” feel like? Discoveries in science and the arts (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London)

• Fri 23 Apr 10 · Decadent Fantasia: Modern Images of Closed Space and Open Sex (Portland Building, Portsmouth)

• Mon 29 Mar 10 · Pushkin, the Russian Autocracy and Rebellion (Marx Memorial Library, London)

• Thu 18 Mar 10 · Friendship and Poetry (London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Wed 3 Mar 10 · Words and Music: Listening to Song (2 of 2 events) (Humanities and Arts Research Centre, Egham)

• Wed 24 Feb 10 · Words and Music: Listening to Song (1 of 2 events) (Humanities and Arts Research Centre, Egham)

• Sat 21 Nov 09 · 'Stumbling on Quotation': who does Eliza Haywood quote and why? (Chawton House Library, Alton)

• Sat 17 Oct 09 · Poetry Marathon (Serpentine Galleries, London)

• Thu 9 Jul 09 · Darwin, Tennyson, Wallace and Swedenborg: Religion, Science and Poetry in the 19th Century (The Swedenborg Society, London)

• Fri 6 Mar 09 · Raise A Flag For Tibet (Aymestrey Village Hall, north of Kingsland)

• Mon 9 Feb 09 · Darwin, Poetry and Science (Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, London)

• Tue 7 Oct 08 · Poetry and radicalism: Mouthing off or making a difference? (Vibe Live, London)

• Thu 20 Mar 08 · Jamie McKendrick & Jean Sprackland - Poetry In Motion (The Bluecoat, Liverpool)

• Wed 5 Mar 08 · RSA: A Mutanabbi Street Memorial Reading (RSA, London)

• Sat 8 Sep 07 · Ivor Gurney - Poet & Composer (Ivor Gurney Conference, Cambridge)

• Wed 11 Jul 07 · Modern Astronomy, Modern Poetry (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)

• Wed 6 Dec 06 · Ian McMillan & Andy Martin (Logan Hall, London)

• Mon 27 Nov 06 · Patti Smith (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Mon 13 Nov 06 · Teaching Poetry (Institute of Education, London)

• Sun 8 Oct 06 · Poets' London - a walk and talk with Graham Fawcett (Keats House, London)

• Wed 4 Oct 06 · Rimbaud- The First Psychogeographer (Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, BATH)

• Tue 14 Feb 06 · Eugène Green (Institut Francais, London)

• Tue 17 Jan 06 · Pierre Alferi and Tom Raworth (Institut Francais, London)

• Tue 6 Dec 05 · Modern Transmissions (FACT, Liverpool)

• Tue 1 Nov 05 · Modern Transmissions (FACT, Liverpool)

• Fri 22 Apr 05 · Vito Acconci - SELF/SOUND/CITY (The FACT Centre, Liverpool)

• Tue 29 Mar 05 · In the Colonie (Institut Francais, London)

• Wed 16 Feb 05 · Bilingual Poetry Reading (Institut Francais, London)

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