April is the cruellest month...

"The finest poem of this generation"

"A pompous parade of erudition"

"The greatest poem in contemporary literature" 

"The thing is a mad medley... so much waste paper." 

It's the poem that caused a critical storm and divided opinion when it was first published, but what's it all about? And why, a hundred years on, is it still regarded as one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century? 

Experience modern poetry's first masterpiece in a special reading by actors accompanied by musicians playing extracts of the Beethoven String Quartets which Eliot was later inspired by.

After the performance there will be a discussion and Q and A with Mark Ford, Professor of English Literature at University College London and editor of the Library of America edition of the work of T.S. Eliot.

Info

A QExtra Event

The Questors Studio

Monday 27 April

7:30pm

Tickets £5 on the door

This performance is licenced by Faber & Faber on behalf of the Eliot estate.