We are BACK with the first in our summer series! Join us for our Pride Poetry Evening at Mimosa House on 11 June 2025 @ 19:00 with ticket proceeds donated to Mimosa House and Mosaic LGBT+ Young Person's Trust.
We'll have guest readings from legendary, award-winning and prize-commended queer poets, who between them have basically been featured everywhere.
🎤 Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her selected poems, Rookie (2022), and The Air Year (2020) are two of Carcanet’s most popular books of the present decade. She won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2020, and has been shortlisted for a number of prizes including the TS Eliot Prize, the Costa Book Awards, the Ted Hughes Award, the Polari Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. A two-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes was published in 2002 when she was fifteen. She won a Cholmondeley Award in 2023. Her seventh collection,Ambush at Still Lake, was published in June 2024.
🎤 Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His first book Soho (Faber & Faber, 2018) was a Gay’s the Word book of the year and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize. His second poetry collection, That Broke into Shining Crystals, is forthcoming from Faber & Faber in February 2025. Richard teaches poetry at the Faber Academy and is a lecturer in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His poetry has been translated into German and French.
🎤 Sophie Robinson is a poet, novelist and nonfiction writer. Her poetry collection Rabbit was a PBS Wild Card choice in 2018. She is the founder of the revolutionary online writing workshop series Devotion, and runs the substack Feelings Almanac. Her writing has been published in The Guardian, The Independent, BOMB, The Poetry Review, The White Review, N+1 and The Believer. Her debut novel, Prairie Oyster, will be published by Little, Brown in February 2026.
🎤 Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli is an Italian poet of Chilean origins based in London. He is the winner of the Verve Poetry Competition 2025 and the Pat Kavanagh Prize 2025. His work was shortlisted for the Oxford Poetry Prize 2024 and has appeared in Propel Magazine, Seaford Review, Berlin Lit, Oblique House and is forthcoming in fourteen poems.
We're hosting the night at the gorgeous Mimosa House, an independent, non-profit art institution in Holborn that's dedicated to artistic experimentation and collaboration, and supports dialogue between intergenerational women and queer artists. It's a truly beautiful space over two floors, one a mezzanine, with loads of natural light that hopefully we'll catch the tail end of as it's summer!
🍾🍷🍺 THE EVENT IS BYOD 🍾🍷🍺
As we're hosting in an art gallery, we won't be able to serve alcohol or drinks of any kind, but you are more than welcome to bring your own sparkling water, soft drinks, wine, beers, whatever you like to drink! Please, no food on the premises.
See you there.
QPC x
What we're about:
A community of queer poets and poetry lovers, we come together to celebrate, hear from and meet new, emerging and established LGBTQIA+ poetry voices. Through this, we promote and protect queer spaces and causes.