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The Common Press Poetry Night has become a popular event for writers and poets to showcase their work and launch poetry collections.
Join us on 29th September from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM for an evening of poetry & OPEN MIC, hosted by Two Lines Press
If you’d like opportunities to sign up on the night and hop on stage to read at the poetry night, please arrive at 7:00 PM to sign up. Please note that while we will do our best to accommodate as many readers as possible, we cannot guarantee that everyone on the list will have the chance to perform. The theme of the night is Bodies. Being. Becoming.
SPLENDOR:
Bodies that transform. Identities that defy borders. Poetry that speaks to becoming.
Join us for an evening celebrating SPLENDOR: Trans Poets. Five voices from Denmark, Argentina, Korea, Norway, and Quebec exploring what it means to inhabit a body, to change, to claim yourself.
These poems speak of swimming after top surgery, dreaming of jellyfish, burning what no longer fits. They emerge from trans and non-binary experience, yet they illuminate something universal: the courage it takes to become who you are, the relationship between body and self, the search for home in your own skin.
Whether trans, queer, or ally, come share in an evening of poetry, community, and connection. Featuring readings from SPLENDOR, guest poets responding to the collection, and an open mic for all voices.
Readers
Tash Walker is a writer, poet and audio producer whose work centres on LGBTQ+ lives, British queer history, and the radical act of listening. Their poetry has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in fourteen poems and by new words {press}. They are the co-author, with Adam Zmith, of The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened (Faber, 2026).
Insta @tashwalker85 / https://tashwalker.com/pages/about
Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet, born in Argentina and based in London. His second collection, Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus, 2025), was shortlisted for the Forward Prizes and named book of the year by The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and The Week. His debut English collection, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (2021), was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. Boix is editor and lead translator of Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin American Poetry, introducing English readers to major Latin American voices. His work appears in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry London, Letras Libres and international anthologies. He co-directs Un Nuevo Sol, which nurtures Latinx writers in the UK, and has been awarded the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize, the Keats-Shelley Prize, and a PEN Award. Boix was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) in July 2026.
Insta @boixleo / https://leonardoboix.wixsite.com/poetry
So Mayer is the author, most recently, of BAD LANGUAGE (Peninsula Press, 2025), a memoir and manifesto on language and power. They’re the editor of catflap magazine, part of Outburst Queer Arts Belfast, a bookseller at the Maktaba at Ibraaz and a co-chair of English PEN’s Translation Advocacy Group.
https://www.somayer.net/
Peter Scalpello is a poet and psychotherapist from Glasgow, based in London. They are the author of Limbic and Mirrorstage.
Insta: @pscalpello / https://www.cipherpress.co.uk/mirrorstage
Hasti Crowther is a poet and writer living in South East London. Their debut pamphlet 'young, dumb, and full of poems' won the Michael Marks Award and is out now with Bad Betty.
https://www.youarehasti.com/