Date: Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Time: 20:00 21:30

Avoiding Blake, Defeated by a Flea in the Ear is presented by Brian Catling – poet, sculptor, novelist, peformance artist and professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin School in Oxford.

Date: Sunday, 28 November 2021

Time: 19:30 21:00

Join us on Blake’s Birthday to meet the artists & writers who have contributed to the second issue of the Blake Society’s magazine VALA

Date: Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Time: 20:00 21:30

In our continuing series on how William Blake uses and abuses the Frontispiece, we look at one of the most radical examples, the frontispiece to Milton and its connection to the Cottage in Felpham.

Date: Wednesday, 15 September 2021

Time: 20:00 21:30

An improvised talk about how a Blake poem became the secret code for Iain Sinclair’s late-life expedition to one of the sources of the Amazon.

Date: Sunday, 15 August 2021

Time: 12:00 14:00

Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
38 City Rd, London EC1Y 2BGLondonUK (map)

You are invited to gather at the graveside in Bunhill Fields at 12 Noon to celebrate the life and death of William Blake. All are welcome!

Date: Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Time: 20:00 21:30

Carol Leader, a Jungian analytic psychotherapist gives a talk on William Blake’s insights into therapy and everyday life

Date: Wednesday, 16 June 2021

Time: 20:00 21:30

John Higgs joins us to discuss his new book William Blake Vs The World to change the way we see the world.

Date: Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Time: 20:00 21:30

To mark the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, Luisa Calè asks : What artistic tools, visible languages, prophetic crafts did Blake employ to embody the souls of the damned, test the limits of opaqueness, and capture the translucent experience of paradise?

Date: Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Time: 20:00 21:30

How did Blake use and subvert the tradition of the Frontispiece in the illuminated books? This event is an open discussion and you are invited to bring your favourite frontispiece and share your insights.

Date: Wednesday, 17 March 2021

Time: 19:30 21:00

Two scholars, one from Poland and another from Brazil, talk about the challenge of translating Blake, who famously claimed ‘every word and every letter studied and put into its fit place’.