Readings

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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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

Kathy Pimlott was was born and raised in Nottingham but has spent most of her adult life in Covent Garden, specifically Seven Dials, home of the broadsheet and the ballad. She has been a social worker and community activist, worked on a political and financial risk journal, in arts television and artist development. the small manoeuvres, was published in April 2022 by Verve Poetry Press. and she has two pamphlets with The Emma Press, Elastic Glue? (2019) and Goose Fair Night (2016).

Kate Noakes is a PhD student at the University of Reading. Her most recent collections are The Filthy Quiet (Parthian, 2019) and Goldhawk Road (Two Rivers Press 2023). She was elected to the Welsh Academy in 2011. She lives in London where she acts as a trustee for writer development organisation Spread the Word.