Events
Resonance x 999 Club anthology launch
We're launching a new print publication featuring work from our community project with the 999 Club, a charity supporting people experiencing homelessness in south east London.
At this free event we'll celebrate the end of the project with readings from the published poets. Come along to listen and get your copy!
No need to rsvp just drop in.
Poetry and heartbreak
A free two hour workshop where we'll explore the poetry of heartbreak, heartbreak as a generative creative and political force, heartbreak as the opposite of apathy.
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.
September open mic
The original friendliest poetry night in town. Open to anyone who loves to read, listen to or write poetry! We have 10 advance reader slots and 6 on the door which are drawn from a hat – to sign up to read, email us or send us a message on our Instagram from 19 August.
Poetry is dumb: on the art of stupidity
A free two hour workshop where we'll read and write poetry which embraces stupidity and revels in the ridiculous. we'll explore how foolishness can be surprisingly profound.
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.
August open mic night
The original friendliest poetry night in town. Open to anyone who loves to read, listen to or write poetry! We have 10 advance reader slots and 6 on the door which are drawn from a hat – to sign up to read, email us or send us a message on our Instagram from 22 July.
Flare-up live: CCA Residency Showcase
We'll be performing poetry as part of the Goldsmiths CCA Residence showcase.
Join us for a celebratory series of performances, spanning poetry, film, music and readings, drawing on the themes of the current Goldsmiths CCA exhibition Flare-up, a look at crip, sick, disabled, mad, trans, racialised and medicalised experiences.
Book your free ticket here.
Poetry workshop: trans+ pride banner making
Join Resonance Poetry Collective for a free workshop celebrating trans pride 2026 through poetry and banner making.
Writers and makers of all levels of experience welcome. There'll be a chance to share your work but never any pressure to do so.
Poetry workshop: reddening the highest branch
A free two hour workshop where we'll use poems to help us think about summer. This workshop is facilitated by Martha Aroha.
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.
July open mic night (birthday edition)
The original friendliest poetry night in town. Now celebrating our fourth birthday! Open to anyone who loves to read, listen to or write poetry. We have 10 advance reader slots and 6 on the door – to sign up to read, email us or send us a message on our Instagram.
Poetry workshop: rage & violence
A free two hour workshop where we'll use poems to help us think about rage and violence. With guest writer Clara-Læïla Laudette!
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.
June open mic night
The original friendliest poetry night in town. Open to anyone who loves to read, listen to or write poetry! We have 10 advance reader slots and 5 on the door – to sign up to read, email us or send us a message on our Instagram.
Poetry workshop: in my next life let me be a tomato
A free two hour workshop where we'll use poems to help us think about foraging, breaking formal and linguistic rules, and what it might mean to trespass through poetry.
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.
May open mic night
The original friendliest poetry night in town. Open to anyone who loves to read, listen to or write poetry! We have 10 advance reader slots and 5 on the door – to sign up to read, email us or send us a message on our Instagram.
Poetry workshop: poetry and drawing
Join Resonance Poetry Collective for a free workshop exploring the ways drawing and mark-making interact with writing poetry.
Together we'll make some big, fun drawings and let loose on the page. Writers and makers of all levels of experience welcome.
Feedbacking: poetry crit
A free, two-hour crit session providing feedback on your writing from other poets.
In this supportive and friendly crit session, each writer will have a poem workshopped by the group, who will provide constructive advice on what's working and what you might like to think about going forward with your next edit.
Free to attend, sign up here.
Resonance anthology launch party
A free event to launch our fourth annual anthology! Hear poets read their work from the anthology. Get your own copy for £6.50. Bundle with a copy of last year's anthology for £11. All proceeds go towards supporting our work: community projects, workshops, events and print publications in the future.
Poetry workshop: everything is a poem
A free two hour workshop where we'll think about poems as experiences or moments which exist outside of language and which we then translate into text. We'll ask what is lost and gained in this translation.
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.
April open mic night
The original friendliest poetry night in town. Open to anyone who loves to read, listen to or write poetry! We have 10 advance reader slots and 5 on the door – to sign up to read, email us or send us a message on our Instagram.
Poetry workshop: parks, poetry and ritual
At this two hour workshop for Telegraph Hill Festival, we'll read and write poetry on parks, place, nature and ritual.
Bring yourself, a pen and some paper, and we'll bring the rest. Everyone is welcome, whether you're a seasoned writer or have never written a poem before.
Free to attend, sign up here.
Poetry workshop: musicalities
At this two hour workshop in collaboration with Goldsmiths English Society, we'll explore musicality and sound as an alternative kind of sense-making, and use this to explore ideas of poetic voice.
Bring yourself, a pen and some paper, and we'll bring the rest. Everyone is welcome, whether you're a seasoned writer or have never written a poem before.
Free to attend, sign up here.
Poetry workshop: poetry and drawing
Join Resonance Poetry Collective for a free workshop exploring the ways drawing and mark-making interact with writing poetry.
Together we'll make some big, fun drawings and let loose on the page. Writers and makers of all levels of experience welcome.
Poetry workshop: poems against the machine
At this free, two-hour workshop, we'll read some poems written by humans and write some of our own, thinking about how poetry resists the language of efficiency and commercialisation.
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.
March open mic night
The original friendliest poetry night in town. Open to anyone who loves to read, listen to or write poetry! We have 10 advance reader slots and 5 on the door – to sign up to read, email us or send us a message on our Instagram.
Poetry workshop: (trans)formations: re-imagining gender and poetry
Join Resonance Poetry Collective for a free workshop exploring queerness as a creative act which makes something new and alive from fragments. We will read and write poetry on trans and gender non-conforming experience, and make art using old clothing, cut up and collage.
Poetry workshop: What is a sonnet and do you swallow one
A free, two-hour workshop exploring queerness and the sonnet form! As part of the workshop, we'll read some poems, share ideas, and complete some writing exercises. They'll be a chance to share your work but never any pressure to do so. Writers of all levels of experience welcome.
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.
February open mic night
The original friendliest poetry night in town. Open to anyone who loves to read, listen to or write poetry! We have 10 advance reader slots and 5 on the door – to sign up to read, send us a message on our Instagram.
Poetry and weather
At this two hour workshop we'll read and write poetry exploring storms, rain and all kinds of wonderful weather.
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.
December open mic night
The original friendliest poetry night in town. Open to anyone who loves to read, listen to or write poetry!
Poetry and labour workshop
At this two hour workshop we'll read and write poetry exploring the tension between art and labour, ideas of value, work and play.
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.
November 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.
Poetry feast
what links poetry and food? nourishment, sustenance, ritual, community. they are gifts we give to one another.
join us for this event, which will be structured as a meal, with a starter, main course, and dessert section. during each course we will share food, read and write poetry!
you are invited to bring yourselves, a poem or piece of writing you love, and a dish if you are able.
free and open to all. let us know you're coming here.
Poetry and punctuation workshop
At this two hour workshop we'll read and write poetry exploring the punctuation, how it creates and disrupts rhythm, and alters meaning. 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.
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 and 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
August open mic night
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!
Resonance x PIP
We partnered with PIP (pursing independent paths) to run a poetry workshop for people with learning disabilities.
Together we performed transformations, made noises, and found inspiration in music, writing collage poetry using lyrics from 'PIP bangers'. We finished by writing a group poem, which was titled 'Be brave, and don't give up on money'.
The poems written by participants were beautiful, strange and ridiculous - everything we love in poetry! A reminder that poetry truly is for everyone.
Resonance at International Poetry Festival
We represented our work at the International Poetry Festival at London's Southbank Centre on 11 July 2026. A huge thank you to BOOKS Peckham for hosting us as part of their curated Zine Fair.
Resonance x Addey & Stanhope School
We partnered with Addey & Stanhope school to run poetry workshops on politics and identity with a group of year 9 students.
We spent six weeks reading, writing, and thinking together about how poetry can help us express ourselves. We then published the student's poems in a special anthology launched at the school in July.
Students said the workshops 'really allowed me to open up with writing and go out of my comfort zone.’
‘This workshop allowed me to have another way to communicate apart from speaking. I didn’t know that poetry could be so deep, that it could show so many emotions and feelings at the same time.’
Resonance x Lewisham Youth Theatre
We partnered with Lewisham Youth Theatre to deliver a workshop on poetry and performance for their cohort of 14-18 year olds.
We thought about poems as costumes you can wear, a way to perform as something or someone else, and through this reveal truths about ourselves and the world.
We wrote poems about becoming other, told imaginative lies, and embodied poetry through performance, practising gestures, voice, and movement to bring our poems to life on stage.
Resonance x Telegraph Hill Festival
As part of Telegraph Hill Festival 2026, we ran a workshop on public parks and private rituals. We explored parks as places of nostalgia, freedom, community and transgression, and thought about what they might share with poetry.
We wrote poems from the perspective of a park, shared our childhood park memories, and created rituals using natural and man-made objects found in Telegraph Hill park.
Primary school workshops
We partnered with Haberdashers Hatcham Free School to deliver workshops for their year 3 students.
We explored transformations, comparisons, sound and nonsense in poetry, encouraging students to embrace weirdness by making up their own noises and words. Some even invented new languages!
We had an absolutely fantastic time, met some brilliant young poets and wrote a lot about stinky cheese!
Open for submissions
Submissions to our fourth yearly publication are open.
If you've read at our open mic night or attended our workshops, please submit your poetry to us. We want it all: your strange, wonderful, heartbreaking, life-affirming, fizzing, shining words. There is no theme other than you being you.
Send up to 3 poems to hello@resonancepoetry.com. Submissions close Sunday 11 January 2026.
Resonance x Feed the Hill
We partnered with Feed the Hill, a social supermarket in New Cross, to run free poetry workshops for those experiencing food insecurity.
Over three workshops we used poetry to tell our stories, share difficult experiences, and create community. One participant said:
'I had a paradigm shift. I used to think that poems were sterile, fringe, niche, that specific types of people do poetry. But it shattered my stereotype about poets and about my perception and my own interpretations of poetry. What I learned is that there's many types of poets and poetry.'
Resonance in residence
We're thrilled to be one of the collectives in residence at Goldsmiths CCA in 2025-26. Over the next year we'll be running collaborative projects and one-off workshops with communities across south east London.
We'll use poetry to explore self-expression, lived experience and storytelling, as well as building community.
Keep an eye out for opportunities to get involved! You can find out more here.
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
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.
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Resonance Cap
Despite what it looks like, you're definitely not procrastinating on your latest poem. You're having a pint with a notebook next to you, or sitting in the café with your laptop open, but you're actually "writing".
Addey & Stanhope Anthology
An anthology of poetry from the brilliant year 9 students at Addey & Stanhope School in Deptford.
These poems were written during workshops we hosted with the school in January and February 2026.
Over six weeks we explored politics and identity, and how writing poetry can be a radical act.
Cover art by Galina
2026 Resonance Anthology
The fourth edition of our yearly anthology, featuring over twenty poets from the Resonance community.
Featuring: Cara Wilson, Martha Aroha, Nastia Svraveska, Darka Duda, Uresa Ahmeti, Jake Roberts, Ariel Seraphina, Tadhg Kwasi, Grace Latham, Eisha Tandon, Fiona Broadhurst, Emmett M, Avi Velevski, Charlie Ridey, David Adger, William Wyld, Beth Emsden, Jack Emsden, Claire Sosienski Smith, Benji Pensotti, Lucie Ailsa, Amy Dudgeon, Conrad Rayner, Omar Hamaoui, Marina Scott, Galina, Louis X. Meikle and June Archbold.
Cover art by Galina Skvortsov
Resonance T-Shirt
Represent your friendly local poetry collective when you're strutting around South East London and beyond.
The money you spend on this t-shirt is not for profit: it goes straight back to funding the running costs of Resonance Poetry Collective, supporting our work and keeping us going. So you look good whilst doing good.
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
