Rise Like Lions: Poetry Reading Compiled by Ben Okri

Ben Okri leads special guests in an evening of poetry and protest.
Join us on July 11th at Conway Hall to celebrate Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s new book Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many. From Shakespeare to Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye to William Blake, we’ll be hearing the poems that have resonated over lifetimes and through generations as some of the people we most admire read aloud.

The need for political poetry that addresses the themes of the day is as great as it has ever been, and its inspiration just as powerful.

Readers include: Tariq Ali, David Calder, Laurie Penny, Helena Kennedy and more…