London Literature Festival 2012

Time Out says

Thu Jul 21 2011

This festival brings together international, world class poets, authors and speakers representing the spectrum of creative disciplines for more than a week of talks and events. The line-up includes Michael Morpurgo in conversation with biographer Maggie Fergusson (Jul 3 7pm; free), a performance of the play 'Robben Island Bible', which combines extracts of works by Shakespeare with the testimony of prisoners of Robben Island prison, South Africa, who cherished a copy of 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare' that had been smuggled into the prison (Jul 3 7.45pm; £10), 'Shake the Dust' poetry slam (Jul 5-7, various times and prices), 'Asian Bloomsbury', a talk about the influence of Indian artists, writers and publishers on Bloomsbury bohemia in the early twentieth century (Jul 8 noon; £8), 'London in Verse' with Ben Borek, Daljit Nagra, Heather Phillipson and Ahren Warner (Jul 8 7.45pm; £8), 'It's Dark in London', featuring new work by Alexei Sayle, Iain Sinclair and others (Jul 10 8pm; £8), John Pilger on geopolitics today (Jul 10 7.30pm; £10-£14), 'A Passenger's History of the Tube', with Andrew Martin (Jul 11 6.30pm; £8).