Sunday, 2 February 2025 18:30:00 – 19:30:00
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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:
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Sunday, 19 January 2025 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
This month has been cancelled due to a bereavement.
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, 5 January 2025 18:30:00 – 19:30:00
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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:
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Sunday, 15 December 2024 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
Readers from the floor welcome
Cheryl Mclennan is an exceptional poet and spoken word artist with northern working-class roots, who understands the nuances of all kinds of invisibility.
Her insightful and witty writing navigates social and personal landscapes with a unique blend of playfulness and depth.
Her work is infused with hyperrealism, reflecting the impact of politics and discrimination on people's lives. Cheryl has over two decades of experience in directly supporting individuals struggling with their mental health, women leaving prison and homeless people in CRISIS cold weather shelters. Later she volunteered with WinVisible (women with visible and invisible disabilities) at Crossroads Women's Centre. Originally a member of the RRANTS collective, Cheryl has been featured at Bang Said the Gun, Paper Tiger Poetry, Kiss the Sky, Utter, The Poetry Cafe and many other events. Cheryl is published with Queen's Wood Writers and in several national poetry anthologies. She has also contributed to podcasts and recorded a CD.
Charlotte Harker is a visual artist, poet, writer and performer.
Her poetry and prose have been described as ranging from satires of the banal to celebrations of the absurd, exploring the real and imagined where the surreal seeps into the ordinary.
Her first collection of poetry and drawings ‘The Wear and Tear of Conversation’ was published by Dempsey and Windle in 2018. Her work has been included in poetry anthologies, including with Dempsey and Windle and the Writers Forum London e-zine in 2023.
A collection of illustrated short form prose and drawings ‘The Novel and Other Incidents’ was published by TSL Publications in 2022 and ‘Model Boat Club Blues and Other Predicaments’ in 2024 also by TSL Publications. Her story ‘About Edward’ was shortlisted for London Borough of Tower Hamlets Short Story Award in 2022.
As a visual artist her work has been supported by, amongst others, Arts Council England and the Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York. In collaboration with Poet Louise Warren and inspired by St Pancras old Churchyard, London she produced a series of drawings for ‘Sometime in a Churchyard’, a collection of illustrated poetry published by Paekakariki Press in 2022. Her work has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and has been exhibited widely both in the U.K. and abroad.
www.tslbooks.uk/charlotte-harker
www.dempseyandwindle.com/charlotteharker
www.instagram.com/charker2001
www.axisweb.org/artist/charlotteharker
Sunday, 8 December 2024 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.
Sunday, 1 December 2024 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
Judith Wozniak spent her working life as a doctor. Her poems have appeared in The Alchemy Spoon, Fenland Poetry Journal, Reach Poetry, South, The Frogmore Papers, ARTEMISpoetry, London Grip, Ink Sweat & Tears and, in the anthology, These are the Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS (Fair Acre Press, 2020).
Hosted by Janice Windle and Donal Dempsey. Poets from the floor welcome.
Sunday, 1 December 2024 18:15:00 – 19:30:00
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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:
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Sunday, 24 November 2024 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
Peter Raynard's latest publication is, ‘The Harlot and the Rake: poems after William Hogarth’ published by Culture Matters
Smokestack aims to keep open a space for what is left of the English radical poetic tradition in the twenty-first century. Smokestack champions poets who are unfashionable, radical, left-field and working a long way from the metropolitan centres of cultural authority. Smokestack is interested in the World as well as the Word; believes that poetry is a part of and not apart from society; argues that if poetry does not belong to everyone it is not poetry.
Culture Matters Cultural activities and experiences can promote awareness, arouse indignation, inspire creativity and imagination, create a sense of equality, community and social justice. They can help us in the 'mental fight' to build Blake's new Jerusalem, a more democratic, equal, socialist society – not only in England but across the globe.
Sunday, 17 November 2024 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.
Sunday, 10 November 2024 19:30:00 – 21:30:00
£6.00
Magma Poetry, one of the UK’s best-known poetry magazines, is producing a Torriano Meeting House-inspired ‘Grassroots’ edition marking the importance of community spaces at a time of unprecedented cuts in the arts. The current Magma Chair, Lisa Kelly, regularly hosts at TMH.