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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.

Recordings:

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, 11 May 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00

Sunday Poetry

£6.00

Poets from the floor welcome, no Icelandic sagas!

Louise Warren’s first collection A Child’s Last Picture of the Zoo won the Cinnamon Press debut poetry competition 2012. In the scullery with John Keats was also published by Cinnamon Press in 2016. John Dust was published in 2019 by V. Press. Sometime in a Churchyard, was published by Paekakariki Press in 2023.

This evening Louise will be reading poems from her new collection Poison published by Tuba Press.

Alan Price was born in Liverpool and now lives in London. He writes film and book reviews for the website London Grip. His poetry collections are Outfoxing Hyenas (Indigo Dreams), Angels at the Edge (Tuba Press), Wardrobe Blues for a Japanese Lady (The High Window Press), The Trio Confessions (The High Window Press), Mahler’s Hut (Original Plus), Restless Voices (Caparison) and Bewilderment (Martello Press).

Alan’s collection of film prose poems The Cinephile Poems (The High Window Press) received a special multimedia presentation at the BFI in 2024. A selection from this book was read at Torriano a few years back. His latest collection is Unknown Woman & Other Attachments and was published in 2024 by Caparison. 

Sunday, 20 April 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00

Heloise de Satge and Sakinah Frederica

£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, 6 April 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00

Torriano Poetry: Shanta Acharaya

£6.00

Shanta Acharya was born in India. After her Master’s in English, she served as a lecturer at Ravenshaw College before winning a scholarship to Oxford, where she was among the first batch of women admitted to Worcester College. A recipient of the Violet Vaughan Morgan Fellowship, she was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy for her work on Ralph Waldo Emerson. She was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English and American Literature and Languages at Harvard University before moving to live and work in London. The author of thirteen books, her publications range from poetry, literary criticism and fiction to finance. Founder of Poetry in the House, Shanta hosted a series of monthly poetry readings at Lauderdale House, Highgate, London, from 1996-2015. Acharya served twice on the board of trustees of the Poetry Society in the UK. Her latest poetry publications are Dear Life (LWL Books, USA; 2025) What Survives Is the Singing (Indigo Dreams Publishing, UK; 2020) and Imagine: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins Publishers, India; 2017). www.shanta-acharya.com

Sunday, 23 March 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00

Venn Diagrams

£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, 16 March 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00

Torriano Poetry: Timothy Ades

£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 Hans Sahl.

He has written 14 books to date translating Robert Desnos, Victor Hugo, Jean Cassou, Alfonso Reyes, and Alberto Arvelo Torrealba.

Other favourites are Brecht, Sikelianós, Nerval, Louise Labé, Ricarda Huch, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Hans/Jean Arp.

He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Trustee of Agenda poetry magazine.

His awards include the John Dryden Prize and the TLS Premio Valle–Inclán Prize.

Sunday, 9 March 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00

Torriano Poetry

£6.00

 A celebration of Maggie Brookes-Butt’s New and Selected poetry with friends from North London Stanza.

Poets from the floor welcome.

Sunday, 9 March 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00

Torriano Poetry

£6.00

 A celebration of Maggie Brookes-Butt’s New and Selected poetry with friends from North London Stanza.

Poets from the floor welcome.

Maggie Butt has published five poetry collections and a novel. She’s an ex-journalist and BBC TV producer who’s taught creative writing at Middlesex University for 26 years and is now a Royal Literary Fund fellow at the University of Kent. Her poetry collection Degrees of Twilight (The London Magazine, 2015) follows her illustrated, themed books Sancti Clandestini – Undercover Saints and Ally Pally Prison Camp, her book of pocket-sized poems petite and her first collection Lipstick. Her poems have escaped the page into choreography, a geo-locative mobile phone app, live musical accompaniment  and the videos and recordings on her website: www.maggiebutt.co.uk. Silence doesn’t come naturally to her!  Maggie is a keen member of the Palmers Green Stanza in North London.

Sunday, 2 March 2025 18:30:00 – 19:30:00

Torriano in cyberspace finale

£0.00

Our grand finale of four and a half years of meeting. Participants came from all over the world during the pandemic. We will continue with occassional one off cyber gatherings.

First Sunday of the month at 6.30pm Kathryn Southworth hosts a poetry Zoom gathering. “Doors” open 6.15pm. Free, but donations to cover costs appreciated. All welcome. Bring your own, or others, poems to read or just come to listen:
Join Zoom Meeting

Sunday, 9 February 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00

Venn Diagrams

£5.00

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, 9 February 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00

Venn Diagrams

£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