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Throughout London Literature Festival our handpicked team of writers and artists will be keeping you updated with all that happens on stage and behind the scenes as well as sharing their own creative responses.

Below are the most recent posts to our Literature blog, to read more or to leave a comment visit southbankcentre.co.uk/literatureblog

Reflections by Anita Sethi

Posted on Aug 02, 2011 by Anita Sethi

By Anita Sethi www.twitter.com/anitasethi Poetical Reflections: An Audience with Owen Sheers The wonderful thing about the London Literature Festival is that fragments of poetry, or ideas that have been[...]

Rhythm and Poetry: an evening of Hip Hop in the Purcell Room

Posted on Jul 22, 2011 by Alex Rowse

The wonderful Yemisi Blake  introduced me to the world of spoken word a couple of years ago, and some of the first poets to draw me in were Kate Tempest, Polarbear and Inua Ellams. Last Thursday they[...]

LOVE FEST: AN EVENING WITH LISA APPIGNANESI

Posted on Jul 18, 2011 by filmaluation

“Everything is about love, and love is about everything.” So begins Lisa Appignanesi. On Monday 4th July in the Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, as part of the Great Thinkers strand, two writers,[...]

Interview with Simon Armitage

Posted on Jul 15, 2011 by Anita Sethi

By Anita Sethi www.twitter.com/anitasethi  An uplifting day of poetry A huge bouquet of balloons has just been released into the clear blue skies above the Southbank Centre when I meet for a chat with[...]

An evening of poetry with Liz Lochhead

Posted on Jul 15, 2011 by Anita Sethi

By Anita Sethi www.twitter.com/anitasethi  Liz Lochhead was this year named as the national poet of Scotland, or Scots Maker, succeeding Edwin Morgan. This week she gave a brilliant poetry reading followed[...]

Romantic Revolution in 1930s England

Posted on Jul 14, 2011 by timstks

It is the middle of the 1930s and the artistic world is in crisis. Promising abstract artist John Piper has just released his latest piece, a collage made from coloured paper and paint. There is uproar[...]

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