Poetry Cafe
One of the most popular, interactive and informative way to see London City is through the hop on and off tour. London visit provides a wide range of attractions for its visitors. The Poetry Cafe is hidden away half way down a side street in Covent Garden. Our mission is to advance the study, use and enjoyment of poetry. It is a charitable organisation founded in 1909, they provide support, information and merchandise for specialists and the general public alike. We have nearly 4,000 members worldwide and we engage with and support diverse poetry audiences. London tour gives many options to its visitors to see the London and famous London attractions.
At lunch time it is a place to meet your friends over a delicious vegetarian meal, freshly cooked each day, by one of our talented cooks. We welcome people who just like the place, the food and the ethos as much as poets and poetry enthusiasts.The Cafe is the Poetry Society's "public face" where you can find out information about what we do and join the Society.
During the morning and afternoon the atmosphere is contemplative; you can sit and write while nursing a cappuccino and a brownie, read the extensive collection of poetry magazines in the basement or browse through fliers for competitions and events all over London and the south east. We also have a news clipping board to keep you up to date with poetry in the news.
In the evening the atmosphere is busy and vibrant; we have poetry readings almost every evening (except Sundays when we are closed). Some are weekly events , some monthly or bi-monthly and some occasional or one-off. Each event has its own audience and its own following of poets (see regular events). Poetry Unplugged is an open mic session where people who have never read a poem in public can do so for the first time, or experienced poets may try out something new. We encourage you to try various events to find which poetry community suits your work best. We also occasionally host poets of world reknown, particulary in a series called In Town Tonight which responds to the presence of great poets who happen to be in the city, by featuring them in the intimate atmosphere of the Poetry Cafe basement.
Every tourist destinations in London gives some reasons to explore it, that includes some of the very best arts and poetry collection.Through events, publications, café, promotions and prizes they ensure the highest artistic quality; create a central position for poetry in the arts and continue to build new avenues to promote poets and poetry in Britain today.
They organize Poetry Café Events. Poetry Café Events includes poetry readings, some of which include music, on almost every night of the week , except Sundays when the cafe is closed. Many of these are regular weekly, monthly or bi-monthly events but there is also some room in the calendar for one-off readings, book or magazine launches, slams, etc.
They also organize exhibitions poetry surgeries and a short film featuring the Poetry Cafe. The Poetry Cafe is not only a space for poetry and food, but also a gallery space for paintings, photographs, prints - some poetry related others not. Curated by Cafe Manager Ely Ahamed, the series has included: Photographs by Fay Godwin, woodcuts by Sasa Marinkov and Eleanor Cooke, a series of shows by graduates from the MA in Book Art at Camberwell School of Art and occasional exhibitions by the talented staff who work in the cafe. Please contact Ely Ahamed if you are interested in showing him your work, with a view to having an exhibition at the cafe.
Current Exhibition
"Family Tree: photographic portrait of poets" by Jemimah Kuhfeld.
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