Torriano Meeting House is a user-funded grass-roots volunteer-run arts and community organisation in Kentish Town. We are best known for our poetry events but we have many other long running strands including storytelling for adults, writing and storytelling workshops, hosting local political campaigning groups, theatrical events, left wing folk club, and we very much support grass-roots creativity and social change.
Torriano is a space for you to organise events and projects.
“What is the purpose of resisting corporate globalization if not to protect the obscure, the ineffable, the unmarketable, the unmanageable, the local, the poetic and the eccentric? So they need to be practiced, celebrated and studied too, right now.” – Rebecca Solnit
Our capacity audience is 20 people. Please bring a mask to events.
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At 6.30pm every Sunday Joan Michelson and Dan Kennedy will be hosting Torriano Poetry in cyberspace. Come at 6.15pm for pre-reading socialising. Through the pandemic this gathering has held together a community that was scattered across the earth. There is no guest reader. The live session at Torriano is not broadcast here. Bring poems to read or just listen. Join us there, all welcome.
At 6.30pm every Sunday Joan Michelson and Dan Kennedy will be hosting Torriano Poetry in cyberspace. Through the pandemic this gathering has held together a community that was scattered across the earth. There is no guest reader. The live session at Torriano is not broadcast here. Bring poems to read or just listen. Join us there, all welcome.
At 6.30pm every Sunday Joan Michelson and Dan Kennedy will be hosting Torriano Poetry in cyberspace. Through the pandemic this gathering has held together a community that was scattered across the earth. There is no guest reader. The live session at Torriano is not broadcast here. Bring poems to read or just listen. Join us there, all welcome.
At 6.30pm every Sunday Joan Michelson and Dan Kennedy will be hosting Torriano Poetry in cyberspace. Through the pandemic this gathering has held together a community that was scattered across the earth. There is no guest reader. The live session at Torriano is not broadcast here. Bring poems to read or just listen. Join us there, all welcome.
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At 6.30pm Sunday 19 December Joan Michelson and Dan Kennedy will be hosting Torriano Poetry in cyberspace. Through the pandemic this gathering has held together a community that was scattered across the earth. There is no guest reader. The live session at Torriano is not broadcast here. Bring poems to read or just listen. Join us there Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3940991487?pwd=VXN0djNHU0F5M2pDK0dscXdRTkJwZz09
Tonight’s live reading at Torriano Meeting House will not be going ahead. Unfortunately, the combination of reader illness and the growing uncertainty around Covid mean that it make sense to postpone. Sorry about this. We look forward to welcoming Hannah Lowe and Gboyega Odubanjo to read in 2022. Thank you to everyone who has read at and attended readings during our short run this winter. We will be starting readings as soon as possible in January 2022. Best wishes for the Christmas break and the New Year,
Tonight’s live reading at Torriano Meeting House will not be going ahead. Unfortunately, the combination of reader illness and the growing uncertainty around Covid mean that it make sense to postpone. Sorry about this. We look forward to welcoming Hannah Lowe and Gboyega Odubanjo to read in 2022. Thank you to everyone who has read at and attended readings during our short run this winter. We will be starting readings as soon as possible in January 2022. Best wishes for the Christmas break and the New Year, David Torriano Poetry
Torriano in cyberspace
At 6.30pm Joan Michelson, will be hosting Torriano Poetry in cyberspace. Through the pandemic this gathering has held together a community that was scattered across the earth. There is no guest reader. The live session at Torriano is not broadcast here. Bring poems to read or just listen. Join us there Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3940991487?pwd=VXN0djNHU0F5M2pDK0dscXdRTkJwZz09
As Torriano is a small venue we are currently limiting the audience to around 20. Please sign up via Eventbrite for the reading(s) that you are planning to attend. There is an option to either pay via Eventbrite or to pay in cash on the door. If you are planning to pay on the door please still sign up so we know that you are planning to attend. Hopefully see you tomorrow or later in the year. David, Torriano Poetry
Dinah Livingstone – book here. £5/£4 according to pocket Dinah Livingstone had a rural childhood in in the West of England and has lived in Camden Town, London, since 1966. She has received three Arts Council Writer’s Awards for her poetry. She is also a translator and editor of the magazine Sofia. She has three children and two grandsons. Her tenth poetry collection Embodiment was published in July 2019 with a London launch at Torriano Meeting House on July 12th. and a reading at the Torbay Poetry Festival. Previous collections include The Vision Splendid (2014), Poems of Hampstead Heath and Regent’s Park (2012), Kindness (2007), Presence (2003) and Time on Earth: Selected and New Poems, published by Rockingham Press in 1999.
Torriano in cyberspace
At 6.30pm, before the live reading, Joan Michelson, will be hosting Torriano Poetry in cyberspace. Through the pandemic this gathering has held together a community that was scattered across the earth. There is no guest reader. The live session at Torriano is not broadcast here. Bring poems to read or just listen. Join us there Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3940991487?pwd=VXN0djNHU0F5M2pDK0dscXdRTkJwZz09
Guest readers: Susannah Hart and Cheryl Moskowitz – introduced by Lisa Kelly
£5/4 according to pocket. Poets from the floor welcome.
As Torriano is a small venue we will initially be limiting the audience to around 20. Please sign up via Eventbrite for the reading(s) that you are planning to attend. There is an option to either pay via Eventbrite or to pay in cash on the door. If you are planning to pay on the door please still sign up so we know that you are planning to attend.
Despite the ongoing challenges, I’m really looking forward to seeing you soon.
David Torriano Poetry
(i) Reading at Torriano booking now
November 28th – Susannah Hart and Cheryl Moskowitz – introduced by Lisa Kelly – book here.
Torriano in cyberspace
At 6.30pm, before the live reading, Joan Michelson, will be hosting Torriano Poetry in cyberspace. Through the pandemic this gathering has held together a community that was scattered across the earth. There is no guest reader. The live session at Torriano is not broadcast here. Bring poems to read or just listen. Join us there Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3940991487?pwd=VXN0djNHU0F5M2pDK0dscXdRTkJwZz09
£5/4 according to pocket. Poets from the floor welcome.
As Torriano is a small venue we will initially be limiting the audience to around 20. Please sign up via Eventbrite for the reading(s) that you are planning to attend. There is an option to either pay via Eventbrite or to pay in cash on the door. If you are planning to pay on the door please still sign up so we know that you are planning to attend.
Despite the ongoing challenges, I’m really looking forward to seeing you soon.
David Torriano Poetry
(i) Reading at Torriano booking now
November 21st – Lisa Kelly and David Floyd – book here
Lisa Kelly‘s first collection, A Map Towards Fluency, was published by Carcanet in 2019 and shortlisted for the 2021 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Her poems have appeared in Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press) and Carcanet’s New Poetries VII. Her pamphlets are From the IKEA Back Catalogue (New Walk Editions), Philip Levine’s Good Ear (Stonewood Press) and Bloodhound (Hearing Eye). She is co-Chair of Magma Poetry and learning BSL. She is currently co-editing What Meets the Eye, an anthology of poetry and short fiction by UK Deaf, deaf and Hard of Hearing writers for Arachne Press.
David Floyd‘s pamphlets are War in the Playground and Protest (both Hearing Eye). He is a trustee of Magma Poetry – and was co-editor of Magma 78, the Collaborations issue. November 28th – Susannah Hart and Cheryl Moskowitz – introduced by Lisa Kelly – book here.
Torriano in cyberspace
At 6.30pm, before the live reading, Joan Michelson, will be hosting Torriano Poetry in cyberspace. Through the pandemic this gathering has held together a community that was scattered across the earth. There is no guest reader. The live session at Torriano is not broadcast here. Bring poems to read or just listen. Join us there Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3940991487?pwd=VXN0djNHU0F5M2pDK0dscXdRTkJwZz09
7.30 Joan Michelson, will be hosting Torriano Poetry in cyberspace. Through the pandemic this gathering has held together a community that was scattered across the earth. There is no guest reader. The live session at Torriano is not broadcast here. Bring poems to read or just listen. Join us there Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3940991487?pwd=VXN0djNHU0F5M2pDK0dscXdRTkJwZz09
Dinah Livingstone had a rural childhood in in the West of England and has lived in Camden Town, London, since 1966. She has received three Arts Council Writer’s Awards for her poetry. She is also a 
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