Sunday, 19 October 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
Poet and performance artist Patrizia Longhitano hosts Venn Diagrams, a monthly poetry event with two main poetry guests, a readers from th floor, a projection of a poetry video and a break in the middle where wine and snacks are served.
Sunday, 28 September 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
£6/£5 according to pocket. Readers from the floor welcome.
Will Stone is a poet, essayist and literary translator. His first poetry collection Glaciation (Salt, 2007) won the International Glen Dimplex Award award for Poetry (Dublin, Ireland) in 2008. Subsequent collections Drawing in Ash (Salt, 2011), The Sleepwalkers (Shearsman 2016) and The Slowing Ride (Shearsman 2020) have been critically appraised. A fifth collection Immortal Wreckage was published by Shearsman in July 2024. Will’s published translations from French and German include works by Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gérard de Nerval, Georg Simmel, Maurice Betz, Emile Verhaeren and Georges Rodenbach. Will’s latest published translations were Nietzsche in Italy by Guy de Pourtalès (Pushkin Press, 2022) and Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach (Wakefield Press, 2022). Letters around a Garden, a collection of Rilke’s letters in French was published in May 2024 and Conversations with Rilke by Maurice Betz was published by Pushkin in January 2025. Will has contributed reviews, essays, poems and translations to a number of literary and art publications including the Times Literary Supplement, the London Magazine, the Spectator, Apollo Magazine, the RA Magazine, The Fortnightly Review, White Review, Irish Pages, PN Review and Poetry Review.
Martyn Crucefix: a chapbook, Walking Away, is due from Dare-Gale Press, late 2025. Other publications: Between a Drowning Man (Salt, 2023); Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions, 2019); a Rilke selected poems, Change Your Life (Pushkin Press, 2024). These Numbered Days, translations of Peter Huchel (Shearsman) won the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize, 2020; a new translation of Jurgen Becker’s 1993 collection, Foxtrot at the Erfurt Stadium due from Shearsman, 2026. Blog/website: http://www.martyncrucefix.com
Stephen Watts's most recent books include 'Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds' (Prototype, 2nd edition 2020) & 'Journeys Across Breath : Poems 1975-2005' (Prototype 2022). In 2021 Peer Gallery published his edition of 'Swirl Of Words/Swirl Of Worlds : Poems From 94 Languages Spoken Across Hackney'. His 'Selected Poems' in Spanish translation was published in Bogota in May 2025 & 'A Book Of Drawn Poems' will be published by Joe Hales's Sylvia imprint in September 2025. Huw Wahl made a 70 minute 16ml b/w film of 'The Republics' in 2019 which has been shown at many art film festivals internationally. Stephen has read at Torriano often in the past & Hearing Eye published two long sequences of his poetry with Italian translation by Cristina Viti in 2008 & 2011
Sunday, 21 September 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
Poet and performance artist Patrizia Longhitano hosts Venn Diagrams, a monthly poetry event with two main poetry guests, a readers from th floor, a projection of a poetry video and a break in the middle where wine and snacks are served.
Sunday, 21 September 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
Poet and performance artist Patrizia Longhitano hosts Venn Diagrams, a monthly poetry event with two main poetry guests, a readers from the floor, a projection of a poetry video and a break in the middle where wine and snacks are served.
Sunday, 21 September 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
Poet and performance artist Patrizia Longhitano hosts Venn Diagrams, a monthly poetry event with two main poetry guests, a readers from the floor, a projection of a poetry video and a break in the middle where wine and snacks are served.
Sunday, 14 September 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
Poets from the floor welcome.
Katherine Gallagher will be reading from Rencontres Encounters; . Katherine is a widely-acclaimed poet with eight books published as well as four chapbooks. Born in Australia, Gallagher has lived and worked in London since 1979. She has been an active force in the community, giving poetry readings, running workshops (for adults and children), judging poetry competitions, and participating in poetry festivals.
Her work has been widely reviewed. In addition, Gallagher has undertaken translations (from French) and her reviews of the work of other poets have been extensively published. Gallagher's own poetry has been translated into French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Romanian, and Serbo-Croat.
Marina Sánchez, Latinx poet, will be reading the French translations of Katherine's work.
Sunday, 3 August 2025 18:00:00 – 20:00:00
£5.00
join MILK for a movement, poetry and sound performance meditating upon human and non-human entanglements and memory tied to their mudlarked sculptures. No booking needed. £5 suggested donation to Torriano Meeting House on the door. @milkstructures
Sunday, 27 July 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
Poet and performance artist Patrizia Longhitano hosts Venn Diagrams. She pairs poets whose work has no apparent connection and the audience discovers points of overlap. Experimental poetry films are also made and shown.
All poets welcome to read. Videos from the past two years of Venn Diagrams will also be shown.
Sunday, 15 June 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
Poet and performance artist Patrizia Longhitano hosts Venn Diagrams. She pairs poets whose work has no apparent connection and the audience discovers points of overlap. Experimental poetry films are also made and shown.
Poets from the floor welcome.
Eve Ellis is an American poet and educator based in London. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and Education from Goldsmiths and recently completed the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. Eve won the Winchester Poetry Prize in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Women Poets Prize in 2020.
Twice long-listed for the National Poetry Competition, her poems have appeared in Magma, Poetry Wales, Propel, and And Other Poems.
Eric Yip is from Hong Kong. He won the 2021 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. His pamphlet, Exposure (ignitionpress, 2024), was shortlisted for the 2024 Michael Marks Poetry Award. His writing has appeared in Best New Poets, The Forward Book of Poetry, The Guardian, Oxford Poetry, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, and Poets & Writers. He is the poetry editor at Cha.
Sunday, 25 May 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
Responders is an integrated performance with 3 poets spontaneously reading poems in response to the catalyst of the other poets. All are award winning poets and seasoned performers and hosts. Expect it to be a warm, varied, experimental night.
Readers from the floor welcome, no icelandic sagas.
Keith Jarrett’s poetry, fiction and essays have been widely anthologised. A multiple poetry slam champion, he was selected for the International Literary Showcase as one of 10 outstanding LGBT writers. Selah, his poetry collection, was published by Burning Eye.
Selina’s Rodrigues’ collections are Ferocious (Smokestack Books) and The Visitors (Wild Pressed Books). She’s an Editor and reviewer for Magma. Her poetry focuses on identity, and queer and social-class experiences.