Redacted celebrates play and invention with blackout poetry, which is created when text is taken from a book, newspaper, or magazine and, by redacting words and entire sentences, hidden poetry is revealed!

We’ll be redacting a page from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Regularly named one of the greatest 100 novels of all time, it is also one of the most banned – a dystopian classic which has turned out to be more prescient than anyone could have hoped. In this interactive blend of performance, conversation and revelation, guests and audience (yes, you too) will turn the violence of literary censorship on its head and explore how meaning and beauty can found in the deliberate act of erasure.

I’ll be joined by Shami Chakrabarti, Jenni Fagan, Luke Harding, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Jenny Kleeman, Barry Sadid, Chris Thorpe, Otegha Uwagba and Mariah Wilde. Come through!

Thu / 18 Jun 2026
The London Library
Time / 7 - 9pm
Tix / £14 - / £18
Book / Here

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