Situated in the heart of London, on the banks of the River Thames is the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, a beacon for arts and culture for over 70 years. The 2,700 capacity Royal Festival Hall ...

One of music’s great riddles, Bach’s groundbreaking work puts the virtuosity of the OAE in the spotlight ...

Curators Ann Coxon and Nav Haq explore the themes of cross-cultural dialogues in Haegue Yang’s work ...

Housing the world’s largest public collection of modern poetry, we are the National Poetry Library; free to join across the UK, and London’s only space dedicated to poetry study. Founded by the Arts ...

The Queen Elizabeth Hall is a leading London venue showcasing world-class talks, gigs, dance, performance and classical music. Originally opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1967, our Queen ...

Discover new poets through this free online collection of brilliant, moving, funny and groundbreaking poems curated by our specialist poetry librarians. Search the poems by type or by topic, or use ...

This poem was joint winner in the National Poetry Library Instagram Poem Competition for National Poetry Day 2022 on the theme of The Environment.

Join us on a tour of our modernist and brutalist buildings to explore decades of architectural innovation and see the Southbank Centre from a new perspective. The beautiful auditorium and glass-walled ...

Who uses the Medusa’s eye? Have you heard a chorus of frogs? Do you know who Gentle Dobbin is? The library keeps a running list of frequently asked for ‘lost’ quotations that for some reason have come ...