Tokens for the Foundlings is a book launch for the charity anthology in support of the Foundlings Museum in Bloomsbury, recently published by Seren Books. This is a collection of poems about childhood, orphans and families and features many significant contributors from the UK and the USA, including Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Charles Simic and Philip Gross.

The event will feature readings by the editor Tony Curtis, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a poet with nine published collections and author of critical books and anthologies; by Jenny Lewis, poet, children’s author, playwright, songwriter and screenwriter; and by Jane Draycott, whose most recent collection Over (Oxford Poets) was shortlisted for the 2009 T S Eliot Prize.