Projects & exhibitions
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Projects
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The 70-Poet Challenge
Lost quotes
Endangered Poetry Project
Exhibitions
The National Poetry Library runs an extensive programme art exhibitions. From film to installation, painting to audio, find out about some of our previous highlights. Revisit some of our critically acclaimed art exhibitions.
The Typographic Dante
30 April – 30 June 2019
Constructing Spaces
19 October 2018 – 31 March 2019
Language Shift
26 July – 23 September 2018
Instagram Poetry
26 April – 1 July 2018
Darkness Visible
17 November 2017 – 25 March 2018
Radical Alterations of the Sun
13 October – 1 November 2017
Larkinworld
31 January – 16 April 2017
The Spring to Come
5 October 2016 – 10 January 2017
Conceptual Poetics
24 May – 3 July 2016
David Byrne's Library
18 August – 13 September 2015
Donate to the National Poetry Library
You can support our work and programme of free events for children and adults by making a donation. Every penny you give will go towards the National Poetry Library.
For your visit
National Poetry Library Southbank Centre
The National Poetry Library is open six days a week.
Tuesday, 12 noon – 6pm
Wednesday – Sunday, 12 noon – 8pm
Getting Here
The National Poetry Library is on Level 5 of our Royal Festival Hall.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our site.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
On Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace. You can grab a coffee and a slice of freshly made cake from our Ballroom Cafe. Or alternatively enjoy destination dining in the restaurant at Skylon.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.
