William Blake vs the World by John Higgs

July is a month of poetry with the Poetry Open mic at the Metronome Cafe and the ending of a William Blake exhibition at the Tate so this book felt like the right choice.

Join us for a discussion of William Blake vs the World, a biography of the poet, artist, mystic, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem ''Jerusalem''.

William Blake was an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, Higgs takes us to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work - and, crucially, his mind.

I hope to see you there!