A genre unto themselves, since 1994 Asian Dub Foundation have served up a unique combination of tough jungle rhythms, dub bass lines and live guitar, alongside high-speed rap and social and cultural ...

Celebrating New Year’s Eve in London? From 5pm on Tuesday 31 December 2024, the Southbank Centre site is only open to visitors with a booking at one of our restaurants. If you don’t have a confirmed ...

Discover new poets through this free online collection of brilliant, moving, funny and groundbreaking poems curated by our specialist poetry librarians. Search the poems by type or by topic, or use ...

Join writer Laurie Bolger ahead of the New Years and welcome in 2025 with some creative goal setting and writing over zoom. This session is a time to unwind and have some ‘you’ time between the ...

Housing the world’s largest public collection of modern poetry, we are the National Poetry Library; free to join across the UK, and London’s only space dedicated to poetry study. Founded by the Arts ...

Explore poetry off the page in Astra Papachristodoulou’s debut solo exhibition, where poems exist as sculpture, objects and textiles. Papachristodoulou’s object poems encourage interactive and shared ...

its squawk stabs the ears.

at a time like this, but she is generous in victory: ‘You know we will,’ she tells me seriously. ‘But when?’ I ask innocently, blowing any hope of recovery. ‘When you’re not expecting it,’ she replies ...

Get your dancing shoes on to kick-start your festive season with a free jive extravaganza ...

Who uses the Medusa’s eye? Have you heard a chorus of frogs? Do you know who Gentle Dobbin is? The library keeps a running list of frequently asked for ‘lost’ quotations that for some reason have come ...