Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Poetry and – Seeing

Strand Campus The Strand, London, United Kingdom

Poetry And… Seeing with Lavinia Greenlaw & Neil McGregor, chaired by Ruth Padel How do we understand vision, our investment in vision? How do visual artists collapse time so we ‘see’ many moments at once? Two magical and widely-loved writers talk and read on the attention which art gives, poetry gives, which we all give, […]

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Wild Court Reading Series Presents Selina Marsh

The Anatomy Museum King's Building, Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom

Join us for the inaugural event in the Wild Court Reading Series and a relaunch of the Wild Court journal website. Also reading are Nicholas Hogg, Idman Omar, & Daniel Bennett. Hosted by TS Eliot Prize 2022 winner Anthony Joseph. This is the first in a new reading series at King’s College, London. We will […]

Wild Court Reading Series Presents Anthony Joseph

The Council Room Second Floor, King's Building – Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom

Join us for the second event in the Wild Court Reading Series. For this event, our featured reader is poet, novelist, musician, King’s lecturer and winner of the 2022 T.S. Eliot Prize, Anthony Joseph. Anthony will read from his forthcoming Precious and Impossible: New & Selected Poems, published by Bloomsbury this autumn, and will be […]

Wild Court Reading Series Presents Sarah Howe

The Nash Lecture Theatre Second Floor, King's Building – Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom

Join us for the third event in the Wild Court Reading Series. For the event, we welcome award-winning poet and editor Sarah Howe who will read and be in conversation with poet and playwright Suji Kwock Kim. Sarah Howe is a Hong Kong-born poet, poet, academic and editor. Her first book, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, […]

Wild Court Reading Series Presents Kimberly Johnson

The River Room Second Floor, King's Building – Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom

Join us for the fourth event in the Wild Court Reading Series. For the event, we welcome celebrated US-based poet, translator and literary critic Kimberly Johnson, reading and in conversation with Dr Hannah Crawforth, Reader in Early Modern Literature at King’s College London. Kimberly Johnson is a poet, translator, and literary critic. Her work has […]

Wild Court Reading Series Presents Sascha Akhtar

The Pyramid Room Room K4U.04 Level 4, King's Building – Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom

Join us for the fifth event in the Wild Court Reading Series. For this event, we welcome the acclaimed Pakistan-born poet and ‘Professor of Magic’ Sascha Akhtar reading and in conversation with poet, musician and King’s College London lecturer Anthony Joseph. Sascha A. Akhtar has crafted seven metaphysical poetry collections, a short story collection Of Necessity And […]