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  • 03 09 2020

Poetry in cyberspace

Torriano Meeting House is not hosting live readings at the moment due to covid compliance. However the community of poets continues to read together and grow with Torriano in Cyberspace hosted by the fierce head poet, Dan Kennedy. It takes place on Zoom 7.30pm on Sundays. The link can be found on the Torriano website [ … ]
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  • 30 08 2017

Free Verse 2017

We’ll be at the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair again this year with a stall. Saturday 30th September 2017 at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square in London! Also there will be Hearing Eye poets reading in Red Lion Square garden at 3.30pm: Pauline Sewards, Peter Phillips and Hylda Sims. Pauline’s first collection ‘This is the [ … ]
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  • 20 11 2016

Writers workshops

Poetry workshops led by Hearing Eye poet and regular Torriano host, Lisa Kelly. Saturdays 1-5pm. September 24th; October 15th; November 19th. £19 /£15 per day. Book with Lisa by email: lisakellyuk[at]yahoo[dot]com ‘From Page to Stage Poets’ led by Lisa Kelly. A unique opportunity for up to six poets to develop a set of poems for [ … ]
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  • 04 10 2016

Organ and poetry

Hearing eye has just published four poems by Peter Phillips are from a series ‘Saying it with Flowers’, that makes imaginative connections between lives of plants and human actions. The poems, in settings of fear and danger, inspired the composer David Loxley-Blount’s composition Duoset, four pieces for organ and solo instrument. The first performances take [ … ]
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  • 25 08 2016

Poetry workshops

led by Hearing Eye poet Lisa Kelly at Torriano Meeting House, London NW5. Saturdays 1-5pm. September 24th; October 15th; November 19th. £19 /£15 per day. Book with Lisa by email: lisakellyuk[at]yahoo[dot]com ‘From Page to Stage Poets’ led by Lisa Kelly. A unique opportunity for up to six poets to develop a set of poems for performance [ … ]
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  • 07 09 2015

Torriano Poetry Competition 2015

Now open for entries! Torriano Poetry Competition 2015 FIRST PRIZE £250 | SECOND PRIZE £150 | THIRD PRIZE £75 Adjudicator: Ann Drysdale ALL POEMS WILL BE READ BY THE ADJUDICATOR No entry form required • Poems should be written in English, to a maximum of 40 lines, typed on a single side of A4 paper. [ … ]
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  • 22 06 2015

LEARN TO DO YOUR POEMS JUSTICE!

A Workshop with Eve Pearce (LGSM Speech & Drama) Tuesday 7 July 2015, 7pm – 9.30pm Reduce your stage nerves, project with presence and let your poems speak! For poets, and anyone wishing to increase their confidence in public speaking. Using your own and other work by well known poets, we will work on: Breathing [ … ]
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  • 20 05 2015

Eddie’s Eightieth

Eddie Linden celebrated his 80th birthday in grand literary style last week. And Hearing Eye did a birthday reprint of A Thorn in the Flesh The Irish Times ran a long appreciation.
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  • 12 05 2015

Obituary

Beata Duncan whose ‘Apple Harvest‘ was published by Hearing Eye has died. A beautiful obituary can read in the Guardian.
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  • 28 11 2014

Familiars

Don’t miss this festive evening of performance and music at the Jersey Opera House. Linda Rose Parkes, launches her third collection, Familiars, alongside readings from the floor and guest appearance from artist and publisher, Emily Johns, reading from the work of her father, the late John Rety, poet, and founder of Hearing Eye. Friday 30th [ … ]