Poetry Parnassus

To launch the festival we have forsaken champagne and canons to launch five books instead.

If you like sitting down, listening and feeling special, this will be a dream come true. Once a day a poet will sit and read a poem to whoever happens to be sat on the bench.

Visit our inflatable tube carriage and write your own poem inspired by Poems on the Underground. Free drop-in workshops take place from 1pm - 2pm every day until Sunday 1 July.

The Poetry Takeaway is 'the world's first purpose-built mobile poetry emporium' and specialises in the production of free, made-to-order poems, delivered and performed to the hungry yet discerning...

This reading celebrates some of the most vivid and exciting poets currently writing in Europe, all of whom have featured in the Maintenant interview series: Sylva Fischerová, Pekko Kappi,...

Watch 100,000 poems by over 300 contemporary poets from 204 countries fall from a helicopter over Jubilee Garden during Poetry Parnassus as the sun sets.

We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We will of course offer a full refund. 

Due to unforeseen circumstances this event had to be cancelled.

Pull up a bench in this urban allotment and make the best use of your lunch hour by listening to poems by three of Europe's leading poets from the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Denmark.