We are BACK for an autumn evening of poetry! 🌙
Join us at Dona, Stoke Newington on 11 November 2025 @ 19:00 for our next Queer Poetry Collective night, with all proceeds going to The Common Press, London’s queer bookshop and community space.
Expect a night of extraordinary guest poets, bold new voices, and an open mic (sign-up on the night! open mic’ers are chosen at random — no need to rush down early 💅).
🎤 C.H. Lieberman is a queer writer, performer, and visual artist from South London. Author of the award-winning play Bunny Man and the acclaimed touring show J.O.I., Lieberman’s poetry has appeared in & Change, t’ART Magazine, Trans Tongues, new words {press}, and more. His artwork also featured on the cover of & Change Issue 10.
🎤 AV Bridgwood is a London-based poet with work published in Oxford Poetry, fourteen poems, Propel, and Magma. They were highly commended in the 2025 Forward Prizes and won the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize. A former Foyle Young Poet and graduate of UEA’s MA in Creative Writing, AV’s debut pamphlet will be published by ignitionpress in 2025.
🎤 William Wyld is a poet and artist from London whose work has been highly commended by the Forward Prize (2025), Creative Futures Awards (2025), and the Bridport Prize (2023). William has performed widely — including at the Queen Elizabeth Hall alongside the London Philharmonic Orchestra — and has appeared in Propel, Basket, Lighthouse, Queer Life Queer Love II, and the Live Canon Sonnet Anthology. A Southbank Centre New Poets Collective alum and Poetry Archive Now winner, their debut pamphlet The Butterfly Bush is forthcoming in 2026.
Hosted at Doña, Stoke Newington’s lush, low-lit bar and live arts space, expect warmth, drinks, poetry, and queer joy. Come through, bring a poem, and support London’s independent queer culture.
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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.