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
Iris Colomb is a poet, artist, performer, curator and translator. Her practice explores relationships between visual and verbal forms of text through projects involving performance, book objects, improvisation, and experimental translation. Iris’ individual, collaborative, interactive, and durational performance works have been showcased across the UK as well as in various international festivals.
Her first solo exhibition, ‘Try! Try! Try! Again!’, featuring visual, sonic and performative pieces was showcased at the Southbank Centre's National Poetry Library from July 2025 to January 2026.
Iris is one half of experimental theatre and slapstick duo Soft Play with artist Paul Ingram and text-sound duo [something’s happening] with musician Daryl Worthington. She is also part of improvising trios Small Print Drama (with Douglas Benford and Tom Ward) and TheThreeFeet (with John Bisset and Andrew Ciccone), and a member of London Improvisers Orchestra.
Jake Wild Hall is an award-winning poet and one half of Bad Betty Press. He has performed on BBC Radio and at festivals and literary events across the UK. He is a multiple slam champion, and his work has been published in magazines, anthologies, and online journals. He is the author of two pamphlets: Solomon’s World, which was longlisted for the Saboteur Award for Best Pamphlet, and Blank.
He has worked with partners including Penguin, Apples and Snakes, Writing East Midlands, Derby Poetry Festival, and Pearson. He has also been a guest tutor at Nottingham Trent University, the University of Nottingham, King’s College London, the University of Lincoln, and others.
