An exciting new literary salon arrives in the capital in 2015, offering Londoners the opportunity to hear their favourite writers and be part of a growing trend in book readings with a difference. London Quarterly features celebrated novelists, cult poets and rising stars of the spoken word scene in four beautifully curated evenings.<\/p>\n
London Quarterly is held at Camden Town music venue The Forge, known for its gorgeous acoustic and a \u2018living wall\u2019 of plants designed by Katharine Bradburn. Each event introduces four authors, who read from their work and give audiences a chance to quiz them on their writing practice and subject matter: from hawks to London history, from outcasts to edgelands.<\/p>\n
The first instalment is headlined by legendary poet, novelist and filmmaker Iain Sinclair<\/strong>, who is joined by experimental writer and artist Heather Phillipson<\/strong>, poet Chimene Suleyman<\/strong> and author of London\u2019s Lost Rivers<\/em> and The Vanished City<\/em> Tom Bolton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Organiser Tom Chivers compares London Quarterly to \u201ca live version of your favourite literary journal\u201d and promises the series will bring a mix of fresh, contemporary writing together with \u201cthe time-honoured pleasure of listening to someone read stories and poems for you\u201d. Writers confirmed for the rest of the year include Helen MacDonald<\/strong>, whose memoir H is for Hawk<\/em> won the Samuel Johnson prize, Forward Prize-winning poet Kei Miller<\/strong>, and author of the bestselling novel Submarine<\/em> Joe Dunthorne<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An exciting new literary salon arrives in the capital.<\/p>\n 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[165],"tags":[261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8543"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16911,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions\/16911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}