Performance Revue has recovered from its hangover anxiety enough to say Thank You to everyone who came out on Friday! All the poets were top drawer and we had a lovely time hearing them perform. In the pub afterwards at least 2/3 of us bought copies of the excellent translation collection published by @h.r.baldanders ; all proceeds from them are transferred equally to the Poets Hardship Fund and the Sameer Project.
We will see you in the new year for Performance Revue #003. Love from Amy/Alice/Cecily 🫡
INTRODUCING PR #002 READERS
🫀🦉 Azad Ashim Sharma is the director of @the87press and serves as poetry editor at Philosophy and Global Affairs and the CLR James Journal; he is also the commissioning editor of The Hythe Review. He is a PhD Candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Boiled Owls (@nightboat_books / @out_spoken_press , 2024) which was shortlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize. His second collection Ergastulum: Vignettes of Lost Time (@brokensleepbooks , 2022) was the recipient of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award. In July 2025, Azad was inaugurated as the Poet Laureate of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He lives in South London and is currently working on a novel and his fourth collection of poetry.
📷 Author photo by Sopo Ramischwili (@soporamischwili )
Tickets still available in bio for the reading this Friday. See you all very soon x
INTRODUCING P.R #002 READERS
🥀📠 Harriet Rose is a writer and publisher living in London. She runs Baldanders Press - an occaisional poetry imprint - and The New Cambridge Chapbook Review (TNCCR), a review magazine of small press poetry and chapbooks amongst other things. Her work has been published in Fatberg Magazine, Snow lit rev, The Solitary Plover, and Ludd Gang and she has a pamphlet coming out soon with Slub Press.
🚨Tickets available from the link in bio or OTD xxx
INTRODUCING PR #002 READERS — KATIE O'PRAY
🫀🍊Katie O’Pray is a poet and creative facilitator, who has been the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, The ruth weiss Foundation’s Emerging Poet Award, and the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition. As a facilitator, they work with varied community groups to use poetry as a tool for reflection and expression. They have also acted as editor on unbinaried - a pioneering collaborative pamphlet, anthologising meditations on gender. In recent years, their poetry has been associated with the National Poetry Competition, the Manchester Writing Competition, fourteen poems, The Poetry Review and the Barbican Centre, among others. Their debut collection APRICOT was published by @out_spoken_press in 2022 – concerned with putting words to the bodily violences of eating disorders, of gender, of survivorship, of remembering.
📸 Author portrait by Giselle Walker.
Tickets still available in the usual place 🫡
SAVE THE DATE! PERFORMANCE REVUE returns for its second instalment, with readings from:
Azad Ashim Sharma @azad_ashim
Harriet Rose @h.r.baldanders
Katie O’Pray @opraykt
Amy Hodder Tempest @amyhoddertempest
Please join us @torrianomeetinghouse on Friday 14th November, 2025. Doors from 7.30.
Tickets £6.13/ £9.38. Link in bio ⛓️ !
Love from Amy, Alice, and Cecily 🧸
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10.05.25. Thank you so much to everyone who came to our inaugural reading, and thank you to our wonderful wonderful readers! Briony made us echolocate with Box Hill’s bats! Stuart announced the name of his forthcoming collection with @publishingjoan (The Dead Weight of Beauty)! All of our poets read interesting writing in interesting ways!
We will return to Kentish Town in July for #PR002. If you have any feedback on the evening (especially if to do with pricing/accessibility) or have any questions, please email [email protected].
All our love, and see you very soon,
Amy Cecily Alice xxxx
INTRODUCING P.R #001 READERS: EVIE WARD
⛓🧊🐇📿Evie Ward (she/her) is a writer and researcher based in London. Evie is interested in writing that engages with collaboration, art and daily life. Her poems can be found in publications, including Viscose Journal, motor dance journal, and SALT. Evie hosts LIT.MIX on No Bounds Radio and organises the poetry event series, Chips, with writer Thea McLachan. She is Fiction & Poetry Editor at @thetoerag and her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from @publishingjoan .
🚨🛠🕷📠Some tickets are still available via the link in our bio or OTD (cash or paypal only)
INTRODUCING P.R #001 READERS: VIV KEMP
🕷🫀📿🦷Viv Kemp is a nonbinary Irish poet whose work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Propel, New Writing, and Bi+ Lines: An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poets (fourteen poems: 2023). They are currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
🚨🥀⛓📠 some tickets are still available on eventbrite (as ever, in our bio). There will be tickets (cash only) OTD, too.
INTRODUCING P.R #001 READERS: CHARLOTTE GEATER
🛠📿🦷🦋Charlotte Geater is a poet based in east London. She works in public libraries. She has published pamphlets including Poems for my FBI Agent with Bad Betty Press, and Work Poems with if a leaf falls press. She won the 2018 White Review Poets Prize, and has been published in the Poetry Review and Blackbox Manifold.
🚨🕷🦷📠 Tickets can be found in our bio or for the same price OTD. You can also copy and paste this link into your browser, too: /e/1314889522959?aff=oddtdtcreator
INTRODUCING P.R #001 READERS: STUART MCKENZIE
🛠📿🦷🦋Stuart McKenzie (b. 1965, London, UK) is an artist, illustrator, poet and musician. His work explores the performance of self through materiality, manifested through painting, poetry, performance and objects. McKenzie has exhibited at TG Gallery Nottingham, MIART Milan, Umwelt Mode Basel, Dinner Party Gallery, Blackwing Studios London,Thameside Studios, Wc29ha, Galerina for Arcadia Missa and Raven Row. He was featured in the Laudanum Chapbook Anthology series Volume 1 and was a founding member of the band Wild Daughter. A poetry collection is forthcoming with @publishingjoan Autumn ‘25.
🚨🕷🦷📠 Tickets can be found in our bio or for the same price OTD. You can also copy and paste this link into your browser, too: /e/1314889522959?aff=oddtdtcreator
INTRODUCING P.R #001 READERS: TUSSHARA NALAKUMAR SRILATHA
🥀📿🕷🫀Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha is a writer and editor in London. Her poetry explores dynamics of belonging, the malleability of memory, and the interplay of human and non-human life. She is a 2025 Barbican Young Poet and 2024 Young Critic in the @tseliotprize and Poetry Society Young Critics Scheme. Her poem “I’m here in your body and you’re over there in yours” was selected for the Local Prize in the 2024 Waltham Forest Poetry Competition. She is the Associate Editor for @offassignment magazine.
🦷🚨🧊📠 Tickets can be found in the usual place or through this link here: /e/1314889522959?aff=oddtdtcreator
INTRODUCING P.R #001 READERS: BRIONY HUGHES
🫀🐇🥀🕷Briony Hughes (she/her) is a poet and lecturer in creative writing at Royal Holloway University of London, where she leads the poetry pathway for the MA Creative Writing. She has published 6 books of poetry including June: A Haunting (@intergraphiabooks ) and Rhizomes (@brokensleepbooks ), whilst her monograph on Hydropoetics is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic. Her limited-edition artists’ books have been collected by the National Poetry Library, The British Library, Senate House Library, The Bodleian, Kings College London Special Collections, and elsewhere. She runs @osmosispress , and coedits the Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine poetry feature.
🦷📿🧊📠Tickets available from the link in our bio / here: /e/performance-revue-1-tickets-1314889522959?aff=oddtdtcreator
