“… life, literature, and the pursuit of happiness in the famous Troubadour cellar-club, London’s liveliest and best–loved poetry landmark since the 1950s …”
Former US Poet-Laureate Billy Collins on the Troubadour’s 60th birthday as a writer’s café…
Thanks to the zeal of its many managers and promoters, the Troubadour has evolved over its 60 year history from a hidden-away beatnik coffee house to a world famous center for the performance of music and poetry. Its walls have become storied, and if only the place had halls, they would be hallowed. The Troubadour was the scene of the first reading I gave in the UK, and I count myself among the long line of poets who are eager to return and darken its doorway again.
welcome
from Coffee-House Poetry organiser, Anne-Marie Fyfe
Back in London now — after an amazing January/May semester at Lenoir-Rhyne University in North Carolina, teaching creative writing, giving readings, talks/performances, and simply writing! And looking forward to wonderful London summer #coffeehousepoetry evenings at the Troubadour (plus one in W4)!
A great range of events (see next event, right, & full programme on readings page), including a return of the mercurial What We Should Have Said, followed by an amazing line-up of US poets, our annual Bedford Park Festival poetry event, a classic end-of-season poetry-party theme plus Sunday workshops (see classes page).
Hope to see you all on May 27th!
classes & courses
#sundaygallery workshops 12-4 pm: £35 at the troubadour
- sun 2 jun, 12-4pm: memory cloud: retracing steps poetry workshop with anne-marie fyfe
- advance booking only via PayPal or cheque to Coffee-House Poetry, PO Box 16210, LONDON W4 1ZP
also, elsewhere…
- sun 9 & sun 16 jun, 2.30-5pm, land of heart’s desire: wb yeats literary walks with cahal dallat in bedford park, london w4
- mon 22—sat 27 jul, john hewitt international summer school 2018, a week of readings, talks, lectures, discussions, creative writing, drama, music, with poets including Billy Collins, Kathryn Maris, Mona Arshi, Kerry Hardie, Fiona Benson, Mary Jean Chan, Tamar Yoseloff, Billy Ramsell, Sarah Clancy & Zaffar Kunial, plus novelists, playwrights, musicians, political thinkers & much more, armagh
- mon 26 aug to sat 31 aug, summer poetry in the glens of antrim, carnlough
