Pride Poetry Night with The Common Press
Event information
13 June 2025
18.00–19.30
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Reading Room
Price
- £5
18+
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Celebrate Pride Month as we host The Common Press Poetry Night in the Reading Room for one night only.
Expect powerful performances hosted by Hasti, featuring the talented Princess Peace and a line-up of exciting special guests.
A regular fixture for The Common Press, Poetry Night has become a beloved space for emerging and established poets to share their voices, launch collections and connect with like-minded creatives, locals and visitors.
Whether you're a long-time poetry enthusiast or just poetry-curious, this evening offers evocative words and a heartfelt celebration of powerful queer voices.
This event is presented in collaboration with The Common Press, London's queer intersectional bookshop café – a sanctuary for storytelling, community, and LGBTQIA+ literature.
Booking information
- Book now to reserve your place.
- Running time: 90 minutes.
- Doors to the Reading Room will open at approximately 17.30 for the audience to take their seats.
- Please note only bottled water is permitted in the Reading Room. No food or other drinks are allowed.
- Event ticket holders no longer need to join queues that develop outside the Museum gates. Instead, you can go straight to the front of the queue, show your confirmation email or paper ticket – and security colleagues will guide you to the fast-track lane (leading to the security tent). This procedure will be in place at both entrances, but we recommend that you use the Main entrance on Great Russell Street for the quickest possible access.
- Please allow time to go through a security check, which includes a bag check upon entry to the Museum.
About the host
Hasti is a poet and writer living in South East London. A member of the inaugural Southbank New Poets Collective and the Ledbury Poetry Critics, they are the recipient of the 2023 White Review Poet's Prize, the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry, and have recently published poems in bathmagg, zindabad zine and The White Review. They have co-written short sci-fi film DIGGING, produced by Film4. Hasti also hosts open mic and poetry night Fresh Lip, and its sister show for Montez Press Radio, Fresh Air.
