Guest poets Jasmine Cooray and Erica Hesketh
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.
Poets from the floor welcome.
Jasmine Cooray is a poet based in London of mixed Sri Lankan and British descent. Her debut pamphlet of poetry Everything We Don’t Say was published in 2009 with Tall Lighthouse Press, and she has done commissions for the Natural History Museum, Louis Vuitton, among others.
She was Writer-in-Residence at the National University of Singapore, where she worked on her first full collection of poetry, Inheritance, which was shortlisted for the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
Erica Hesketh is a poet and editor, originally from Japan and Denmark, now based in London. Widely published in magazines, her poetry has been commissioned by the Royal Festival Hall, Spread the Word and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She was longlisted in the 2023 National Poetry Competition, and highly commended in the 2025 Forward Prizes.
