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.
We’lll have Gayathiri Kamalakanthan (@unembarrassable) and Nasim Luczaj (@nasimluczaj) coming to visit us bringing pipping hot books with them: Bad Queer (@faberbooks)and Ultraviolet with Landing Marks (@oblique_house).
Don’t forget to bring a poem for the OPEN MIC and we’ll project the new VD Cento poetry video made with your performed lines from the previous event.
Gayathiri Kamalakanthan is a Tamil writer. They’re interested in how language shapes belonging and how we might use it to build freer futures. Gayathiri won the Poetry Archive Now Prize 2025 and the Disabled Poets Prize 2024. Their play ‘Period Parrrty’ is a trans Tamil rom-com and opened at Soho Theatre in 2025. Their debut novel-in-verse, ‘Bad Queer’, is out with Faber. gayathiri.co.uk, IG: @unembarrassable
Nasim Luczaj is a poet, translator, and co-editor of the environmental poetry magazine Wet Grain. She is the author of Hind Mouth (Earthbound Press) and Ultraviolet with Landing Marks (Oblique House). Her debut collection, Tang, is forthcoming from Faber & Faber in 2027.
