Poetry

Sundays; 7.30pm; £6/5 according to pocket

There have been poetry readings on Sunday nights at Torriano Meeting House since 1982. As well as the evening’s main readers invited from a broad range of literary practice, there are usually a number of  ‘poets from the floor’, who may include full-time poets and also beginners presenting a piece in public for the first time. The range has spanned Stephen Spender and John Heath-Stubbs to Labi Siffre and John Hegley.

The publishers Hearing Eye was born from the Sunday readings and has its base at Torriano.

Torriano Poetry readings 2023

Sundays 7.30pm. £6/£5 according to pocket, cash on door. Poets from the floor welcome.

22 January: In the Company of Poets. Dan Kennedy hosts an evening of poets from the floor, come to read or listen. 

29 January 7.30pm: Jacqueline Saphra and Sue Johns

5 February Poets from the floor hosted by Dan Kennedy

12 February Poets from the floor hosted by Dan Kennedy

19 February Poets from the floor hosted by Dan Kennedy

26 February Poets from the floor hosted by Dan Kennedy

5 March Poets from the floor hosted by Dan Kennedy

12 March – Julian Bishop and Viv Fogel introduced by Cheryl Moskowitz

19 March  Louise Warren & Alan Price with pictures by Charlotte Harker & Herve Constant
26th March Dominic Fisher and Kathy Pimlott intro by Pauline Sewards

19 March – Charlotte Harker, Louise Warren, Alan Price

26th March Dominic Fisher and Kathy Pimlott introduced by Pauline Sewards

Sunday 2nd April Poets from the floor hosted by Dan Kennedy

Sunday 9th April – Easter Sunday

16th April Poets from the floor hosted by Dan Kennedy

Sunday 23rd April Kate Noakes and Peter Daniels introduced by Pauline Sewards

Sunday 30 April Poets from the floor hosted by Dan Kennedy

Sunday 7th May Poets from the floor hosted by Dan Kennedy

Sunday 14th May Dinah Livingstone

Sunday 21st May Pratibha Castle and Mary Mulholland introduced by Pauline Sewards

Sunday 28th May Poets from the floor hosted by Dan Kennedy

Sunday 4th June Poets from the floor hosted by Dan Kennedy

Sunday 11th June Rachael Clyne and Jill Abram intro by Pauline Sewards

Sunday 18th June Charlotte Harker and Jo Mariner introduced by Susan Johns

Sunday 25th June Tiffany Anne Tondut and Sarah Fletcher introduced by Lisa Kelly

Sunday 2nd July Poets from the floor hosted by Dan Kennedy

Saturday 8 July Poetry reading from contributors exhibition – Textus: in between text and textile – inviting poets and artists to respond to the relationship between text and textile from language in fabric to the poetics of cloth.

Sunday 23 July Richard Skinner and Paul Stephenson introduced by Peter Raynard

Sunday 30th July Mary Dickins and Janet Hatherley and Alison Campbell intro by Pauline Sewards

ONLINE
Every Sunday at 6.30pm Joan Michelson is hosting an online Poetry in Cyberspace. All welcome to read or listen. Free.
Join us there:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3940991487?pwd=VXN0djNHU0F5M2pDK0dscXdRTkJwZz09
Meeting ID: 394 099 1487
Passcode: 8dFNdWq

 

ONLINE
Every Sunday at 6.30pm Joan Michelson is hosting an online Poetry in Cyberspace. All welcome to read or listen. Free.
Bring poems to read or just listen. Join us there:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3940991487?pwd=VXN0djNHU0F5M2pDK0dscXdRTkJwZz09
Meeting ID: 394 099 1487
Passcode: 8dFNdWq