To mark the occasion of World Poetry Day, Jeremy Reed will be reading from his latest collection Piccadilly Bongo and more at Gay's the Word - the UK's pioneering lesbian and gay bookshop.

When: Monday, March 21st

Time: 7pm

Place: Gay's the Word

            66 Marchmont Street, City of London, WC1N 1AB

This event is free and will provide complimentary refreshments.

Anna Robinson will be reading from The Finders of London as part of the StAnza 2011 festival:

Date: Saturday 19th March (2.15-3.15pm)

Venue: The Undercroft, St John's House, South Street, St Andrews

Tickets: £3/£2

For further information click here

Judy Gahagan presents: Peter Huchel (1903-81) and Reiner Kunze (1933-)

These two poets of eastern Germany belong among the many that had to create some domain for poetry within the constraints of totalitarian regimes and while surviving the apocalyptic events of mid-20^th century Germany. In varying degrees they adopted the famous strategy of ‘inner emigration’. The poems tonight will illustrate that ‘emigration’ inwards of Peter Huchel, native of Brandenburg and Reiner Kunze – native of Saxony.

Judy Gahagan is a member of the Camden Mews Translation Workshop. She has published 5 collections of her own poetry and a collection of short stories as well as a verse-history of Ludwig II of Bavaria ‘Tours Around the Soul of Ludwig’. She is a tutor at the Poetry School London and for various other writing groups; and she runs courses in eco-poetry. Her work was included in ‘Over the Water’, a collection of translated poems from the Camden Mews group.