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Weekly literary event listings plus book reviews, London poems and spoken word happenings.

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Preview: LGBT History Month Events In London

Films, talks, art and walks in February.

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London Book And Poetry Events: 23-29 January

Loads of launches and the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice.

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London Poems: High Street Haiku

Poetic comment on the plight of HMV and Blockbuster.

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London Book And Poetry Events: 16-22 January

Andrew Kaufman, Gillian Slovo and Mark Billingham among the writers in London this week.

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London Poetry: A Hornchurch Commuter By Luke Wright

Poem from Luke Wright’s new collection, Mondeo Man.

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High Impact – Literature From The Low Countries @ The Tabernacle

Six Dutch writers are joined by Deborah Moggach, David Mitchell and Tracy Chevalier.

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Art Preview: Our Mutual Friends – A Celebration Of The Commonplace

Artworks inspired by Dickens’s bicentenary.

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London Book And Poetry Events: 9-15 January

London short stories, the TS Eliot Prize and more authors and poets.

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London Book And Poetry Events: 2-8 January

Philip Pullman, Anjali Joseph, Chibundu Onuzo and more poets and authors in town this week.

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Book Review: Murder & Crime In Islington, By Peter Stubley

Not exactly Christmas cheer.

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Santa’s Lap: Ten Poems About London

A poetic gift and card in one.