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Readings at Torriano Meeting House, London

Hearing Eye writers often appear for guest readings, joining other writers and artists at our London home. They are mostly recorded and posted on this site.

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Readings are mostly recorded and posted on this site.

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Torriano Meeting House is Hearing Eye’s home as well as an arts and community space in North London. It hosts weekly readings from a variety of guests (preceded by poets from the floor) as well as writers groups and poetry workshops.

Weekly readings

Sundays at 7.30pm Poets from the floor welcome £5/£4 according to pocket

Torriano Meeting House

99 Torriano Avenue London NW5 2RX Phone: 020 7267 2751

From Kentish Town tube station

Turn right from the station, Turn right into Leighton Road, Turn left onto Torriano Avenue

Sunday, 21 September 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00

Torriano Poetry

£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

Venn Diagrams: Luigi Coppola & Mary Mulholland

£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

Venn Diagrams: Luigi Coppola & Mary Mulholland

£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

Torriano Poetry: Timothy Ades & Katherine Gallagher

£6.00

Poets from the floor welcome.

Timothy Adès translates mainly French, German and Spanish poems into English, tending to work with rhyme and metre. Tonight he will be reading from new books: translations from German poets Ricarda Huch, Ringelnatz the Rhymer and Morgenstern's Magic.
In earlier books he has translated Victor Hugo (for Hearing Eye, a long connection), Robert Desnos, Jean Cassou, Alfonso Reyes, and Alberto Arvelo Torrealba. And Shakespeare! He has four awards for translating poetry, runs a bookstall of translated poetry, and is on Facebook and YouTube.

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

Milk

£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

Venn Diagrams 2nd Anniversary

£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

Eve Ellis & Eric Yip

£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

Torriano Poetry

£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.

Prize-winning poet Gale Burns publications are three pamphlets, and his collection Mute House (Eyewear).  His work has been translated into European languages and Arabic. He was the Vice-President of the European Association of Creative Writing Programmes. He is founder and lead facilitator for the Poetry Shuffle.

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.  

Sunday, 18 May 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00

Eric Yip

£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. 
Venn Diagrams' first anniversary will be celebrated with installation and film. 

Poets from the floor welcome

Sunday, 11 May 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00

Torriano Poetry

£6.00

Poets from the floor welcome, no Icelandic sagas!

Louise Warren was born in Bridport, Dorset and grew up in the West Country.  She moved to London in 1984 to study community theatre arts at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. After graduating she worked in theatre as a playwright, co-forming the visual theatre company Working Parts with directors Sue Buckmaster and Steve Tiplady and going on to work for companies including The Little Angel Theatre, Theatre-Rites, Scarlet Theatre, and Immediate Theatre.

Alan Price lives in London. He is a poet, scriptwriter, short story writer, film critic for filmuforia.co.uk and blogger at alanprice69.wordpress.com . His short story collection The Other Side of the Mirror, an alternative take on vampirism, was published by Citron Press in 1999. A TV film A Box of Swan was broadcast on BBC2 In 1990. Alan has scripted five short films. The last one Pack of Pain (2010) won four international film festival awards.