Events
September open mic night
The original friendliest poetry night in town. Open to anyone who loves to read, listen to or write poetry! At this event, fifteen readers will share their work across three sections. We have ten advance reader slots, and five on the door – let us know if you want to read here.
Ekphrastic poetry workshop
At this two hour workshop we’ll read and write poetry inspired by painting sculpture. Bring yourself, a pen and some paper, and we’ll bring the rest. It’s a very relaxed and informal space where everyone is welcome – let us know you’re coming here.
Sentimentality in poetry
At this two hour workshop we’ll read and write poetry about [insert theme explainer 5 to 10 words]. Bring yourself, a pen and some paper, and we’ll bring the rest. It’s a very relaxed and informal space where everyone is welcome – let us know you’re coming here.
August open mic night
July open mic
The launch of the brand new, 2025 Resonance anthology
Join us for the official launch of our third annual anthology, featuring 40+ poets from across London's vibrant queer scene. Expect readings, wine, and the kind of electric energy that only comes from celebrating radical voices together.
Poetry workshop at the Feminist Library
A monthly safe space for writers to experiment, share work-in-progress, and build craft alongside fellow poets. No experience necessary—just bring curiosity and an open heart.
Poetry workshop at the Feminist Library
A monthly safe space for writers to experiment, share work-in-progress, and build craft alongside fellow poets. No experience necessary—just bring curiosity and an open heart.
Poetry workshop at the Feminist Library
A monthly safe space for writers to experiment, share work-in-progress, and build craft alongside fellow poets. No experience necessary—just bring curiosity and an open heart.
Poetry workshop at the Feminist Library
A monthly safe space for writers to experiment, share work-in-progress, and build craft alongside fellow poets. No experience necessary—just bring curiosity and an open heart.
Community
Partner with us
We believe poetry is for everyone and everyone can write poetry. We bring the arts into spaces where it isn’t usually found, and support marginalised communities to access arts education.
If you work at a charity or community group that would benefit from more poetry, we can help you do that: hello@resonancepoetry.com!
Holding close/letting go: language, trauma and ritual
We partnered with Grassroots Suicide Prevention to run a workshop exploring how poetry can help us give voice to difficult experiences, refuse shame or guilt, and create spaces for healing. We asked how reading and writing poetry might bring us strength when we need it most.
Kink in their armour
We ran a poetry workshop on collage and experimental forms as part of Kink in their Armour, a series of creative workshops for LGBTQIA+ artists organised by Campfire Theatre. The project connected creatives from the UK with artists from Thukhuma Khayeethe Theatre in Myanmar. We encouraged people to experiment with poetry, grow self-confidence, and celebrate queer joy and resistance!
Writing queer grief and resistance
In September 2023, we partnered with St Christopher’s Hospice and Anti-University festival to run a poetry workshop on queer grief and resistance. Over 30 people joined us to explore poetry as a way of remembering, celebrating, and grieving queer lives. We thought about how we rally to resist a world that tries to break us down or tear us apart. We joined together, resilient and joyful, refusing to go anywhere.
Submission window opens today
Our highly anticipated summer anthology "Tidal Shifts" is now accepting submissions until July 15th. This year we're particularly excited to feature work exploring themes of belonging, transformation, and the spaces between cultures. We're looking for poetry that challenges, comforts, and surprises in equal measure. Both emerging and established voices are welcome - what matters most is authenticity and craft.
New voices welcomed
We're absolutely thrilled to announce that three incredible new members have joined our collective this month. Sarah Martinez brings her background in spoken word and slam poetry, while David Kim offers a unique perspective through his bilingual Korean-English verse.
Submission window opens today
Our highly anticipated summer anthology "Tidal Shifts" is now accepting submissions until July 15th. This year we're particularly excited to feature work exploring themes of belonging, transformation, and the spaces between cultures. We're looking for poetry that challenges, comforts, and surprises in equal measure. Both emerging and established voices are welcome - what matters most is authenticity and craft.
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2025 Resonance Anthology
The third edition of our yearly anthology, featuring over twenty poets from the Resonance community. This collection of vital poems holds love and grief and birds and apricots and maisonettes and the virgin mary and video games. These poems pay equal attention to the large and the small. They are brilliantly alive.
Featuring: Jean Akintoye, Bella Barton, Fiona Broadhurst, Lee Campbell, Bronte Cook, Immy Done, Amy Dudgeon, Beth Emsden, Muriel Floresta, Hannah May Harding, Amy Hodder-Tempest, Grace Latham, Gabrielle Lisk, Louis X. Meikle, Zoe Petavel, Conrad Rayner, Charlie Ridey, Nastia Svarevska, Simon Throssell, Elizabeth Uter
2024 Resonance Anthology
Our second yearly anthology. The poems in this issue are testaments to care and our capacity for it, in spite of all that may shake us: the grief, both personal and political, which visits us daily. The poets published here practice small, necessary acts of resistance.
Featuring: David Adger, K. Angel, Bella Barton, Seb Browne, Lee Campbell, Cherry Cicely, Lu Rose Cunningham, A.P Fieldman, Muriel Floresta, Daze Hingorani, Anisha Jackson, Emmett Meta, Colin B Osborne, Charlie Ridey, Elida Silvey, Lara Mae Simpson, Nastia Svarevska, Simon Throssell
2023 Resonance Anthology
Our first ever yearly anthology. We wanted to celebrate our growing community of poets by creating a space for their poems to appear in print. The work gathered here holds all that we love in poetry: tenderness, queerness, lightness and joy, a radical kind of hand-holding.
Featuring: AJ DiBetta, Elliot Baker, Oliver Sedano-Jones, Piala Murray, Anna Nightingale, Lue Mac, Mat Riches, Claire Sosienski Smith, Rihanna Starling, Simon Throssell, Alex Vann, Lucy Wilkinson, Dearbhla Young
