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A digital poetry walk around Hampstead Heath encouraging visitors to slow down and discover more about London’s urban trees opens ... in collaboration with the City of London Corporation.

Momtaza Mehri, who is Somali-British, was recently named the Young People's Laureate for London. She sees poetry ... really big urban city and feeling quite lonely. "We've had an upsurge in ...

Tim Cresswell's new poetry collection ... moments of urban life – that moment when evening turns to night, nature poking through into the city, the surprise of parakeets in London parks ...

Finally, for insight into teenagers in London, read Hannah Lowe’s poetry collection “The Kids,” inspired by the youngsters she taught in an inner city London school for 10 years.

In Baudelaire’s poetry, Paris becomes a ... places it within the remnants of old London. Urban fantasies such as Neverwhere and also Miéville’s The City and the City (2009) display an ...