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.
Eve Ellis is an American poet and educator based in London. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and Education from Goldsmiths and recently completed the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. Eve won the Winchester Poetry Prize in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Women Poets Prize in 2020.
Twice long-listed for the National Poetry Competition, her poems have appeared in Magma, Poetry Wales, Propel, and And Other Poems.
Eric Yip is from Hong Kong. He won the 2021 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. His pamphlet, Exposure (ignitionpress, 2024), was shortlisted for the 2024 Michael Marks Poetry Award. His writing has appeared in Best New Poets, The Forward Book of Poetry, The Guardian, Oxford Poetry, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, and Poets & Writers. He is the poetry editor at Cha.