Poetry London

25/09/2025

Announcing our Autumn 2025 Readings! Join us on Sunday 2 November for our autumn issue launch event, featuring live readings from , .makoha, Michael Symmons Roberts and the winners of the 2025 Poetry London Prize.

Special thanks to for hosting us.

Tickets are now on sale, link in bio. We hope to see you there!

01/09/2025

Lastly, it is a absolute privilege to announce that the winner of the 2025 Poetry London Prize is Rachel Curzon for her poem ‘There are enough poems about birds, and here is another one’. Our judge said: “Beautifully written, bittersweet and deeply affecting, this poem is a miracle. It turns out that we did really need another poem about birds, ‘quite urgently.’”

01/09/2025

More congratulations for Hélène Demetriades awarded 2nd Place for her poem ‘Hiding Place’. Our judge said: “In these dark times, when even poems don’t seem up to the task of bearing witness to the daily horrors, this poem so cleverly and boldly exposes the layers of avoidance, trauma and denial we cycle through in an effort to somehow cope with this reality.”

01/09/2025

First off - our warmest congratulations to Clara-Læïla Laudette () who has been awarded 3rd Place for her poem ‘Things about myself I’d rather not know’. Our judge said: “This is a poem for our times, for our scattered attentions and the stress of living in an increasingly virtual world that germinates loneliness on a mass scale.”

07/08/2025

‘Lydia…’, by Jessica Traynor.

06/08/2025

An excerpt from ‘Not Writing’, by Will Harris. You can read the full piece in the Summer 2025 issue of Poetry London.

06/08/2025

01/08/2025

Love, by Oluwaseun Olayiwola.

10/07/2025

The Summer 2025 issue is out now! Grab a copy on our website.

You can purchase PL111 at the link in our bio and read a selection of content from the magazine online. Enjoy!

10/07/2025

Announcing the third edition of the PL Pamphlet Prize! The winner will receive £250, publication of their pamphlet with Poetry London Editions, and ten author copies of the work.

This year’s judge is . Andrew McMillan is the author of three collections of poetry, physical, playtime and pandemonium, a novel, Pity, and the co-editor of the anthology 100 Q***r Poems. He lives in Manchester

Entry costs are £20 per pamphlet, or £10 per pamphlet for current subscribers. Please only submit 24 pages of poetry. Find out more and enter at the link in our bio.

27/04/2025

We had a wonderful time at the Poetry Society's Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair yesterday!

25/04/2025

Join Poetry London at the Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair tomorrow, St Columba's Church Of Scotland, Knightbridge, from 11am (quiet hour) or 12-6pm. Stay on for the readings afterwards. There is a very interesting panel on polylingual poetry before the fair at 10.15, with the National Poetry Competition winner, translators and publishers.