This event will take place on Zoom. It will begin at 7.30pm. Please book tickets OR an Open Mic slot through the Eventbrite link which will appear on our Home Page around a week before the date.
Pádraig Ó Tuama (b. 1975, Ireland) is a poet with interests in language, violence, power and religion. He is the host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound and has published volumes of poetry, essays, a memoir and theology 2025 saw the publication of Kitchen Hymns, a volume of original poems (CHEERIO and Copper Canyon Press), and the anthology 44 Poems on Being with Each Other; a Poetry Unbound Collection (Cannongate and WW Norton). He lives in Belfast and New York City.
Michelle Penn’s latest collection, Retablo for a door (Shearsman, 2026), was featured in The Guardian‘s ‘Best Recent Poetry Round-up’ and on BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Verb’. Her previous publications are Paper Crusade (Arachne Press, 2022) — which was turned into the experimental theatre piece, Storm Child, and performed in 2024 — and Self-portrait as a diviner, failing (Paper Swans Press, 2018), which won the Paper Swans Pamphlet Prize. A dual US/UK national, Michelle lived in Paris for many years and now resides in London. michellepennwriter.com