Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Latest Past Events

Wild Court Reading Series Presents Stephen Watts

The Pyramid Room Room K4U.04 Level 4, King's Building – Strand Campus, London

Join us for the sixth event in the Wild Court Reading Series. For this event, we welcome aclaimed poet, editor, translator and activist Stephen Watts, reading and in conversation with T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet and King’s College London lecturer, Anthony Joseph.  Stephen Watts’s most recent books are Journeys Across Breath: Poems 1975-2005 (Prototype Publishing 2022, reprinted 2025) and Republic Of […]

Wild Court Reading Series Presents Sascha Akhtar

The Pyramid Room Room K4U.04 Level 4, King's Building – Strand Campus, London

Join us for the fifth event in the Wild Court Reading Series. For this event, we welcome the acclaimed Pakistan-born poet and ‘Professor of Magic’ Sascha Akhtar reading and in conversation with poet, musician and King’s College London lecturer Anthony Joseph. Sascha A. Akhtar has crafted seven metaphysical poetry collections, a short story collection Of Necessity And […]

Wild Court Reading Series Presents Kimberly Johnson

The River Room Second Floor, King's Building – Strand Campus, London

Join us for the fourth event in the Wild Court Reading Series. For the event, we welcome celebrated US-based poet, translator and literary critic Kimberly Johnson, reading and in conversation with Dr Hannah Crawforth, Reader in Early Modern Literature at King’s College London. Kimberly Johnson is a poet, translator, and literary critic. Her work has […]