events

Club Verbal Discharge takes the reins at All Good Spoken Word night in All Good Bookshop. The finest readings of new writing known universe. Expect the usual madness. Full bar with keg beer flowing till late. Doors 7pm. Curtain at 7:30. 

Tickets start from £5 (via another website).

This month in our gallery: recent works by Helen Minns.

Helen works across painting, drawing and printmaking. These recent works explore the relationship between landscape, memory and abstraction, inspired by daily walks through local nature reserves and urban woodlands, including Nunhead Cemetery and One Tree Hill. Through observation and imagination Helen traces a journey between the natural and the invented world. Shapes and surfaces evolve through layering, improvisation and the quiet unpredictability of mark-making. The forest, in particular, has become a metaphor for the creative process itself - constantly shifting, shaped by the unseen, and alive with hidden energies. These pieces capture something of the state: half-mapped, half-discovered, alive with gesture and texture. Rather than presenting finished landscapes, the work invites viewers into a space of becoming - a reflection of both the seen environment and the inner terrain of memory and imagination. Free.

We are hosting a Comedy Club, on the 1st Friday of the month. The Comedy Club 

show-cases some of the most exciting rising stars of London’s vibrant, contemporary circuit. Come & check out some of London’s emerging comedy talent, and experienced comics trying out new material!

Four great acts on the night with the evening hosted by Mike Lash,

Tickets start from £5 (EARLYBIRD) increasing gradually in price online nearer the date.

Tickets on the door on the night £10.

So buy online for cheaper tickets.

Poets and performers montenegrofisher, Paul Ingram and Iris Colomb come together for a second celebration of Iris' first full-length collection Nothing Intensifies, recently published by Pamenar Press!

Iris Colomb is a poet, artist, and performer based in London. Her practice explores various relationships between visual and verbal forms of text through projects involving performance, book objects, improvisation and experimental translation. Iris' individual, collaborative, interactive, and durational performance works have been showcased across the UK as well as in German, Austrian, Romanian, Norwegian, French and Chilean events and festivals. Publications include pamphlets I'm Shocked (Bad Betty Press, 2018), just promise you won't write (Gang Press, 2019), Ridiculous Unlikely Attempt (Hesterglock Press, 2023) and Where do you begin in this (Ma Bibliotheque, 2024), as well as magazines and anthologies in the UK, Europe, and beyond. Her first full-length collection Nothing Intensifies is out with Pamenar Press this year. She is involved in a number of ongoing musical projects including text-sound duo [something's happening], meta-punk band Daylightbulb and trios TheThreeFeet and Small Print Drama.

montenegrofisher are Luna Montenegro and Adrian Fisher, poets and artists based in London collaborating in a fluid space of visual, physical and sonic research. Their work investigates ideas of locality and social transformation exploring the boundaries of human and non-human. Their work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries, poetry and film festivals, residencies, internet and radio. They have been published by Crater Press, Errant Bodies Berlin, diSONARE Mexico, Poem Atlas, Grapheme, Tripwire US, among other poetry and art journals. www.montenegrofisher.org

Paul Ingram is a poet and writer whose publications include Flat Earth (Contraband Books, 2018), Enemie Anonimous (Beir Bua Press, 2023) Index (Readymade Sound Poetry) (x0, 2023) and Duck (Larynx Press, 2025). He performs as part of the duo Soft Play (with Iris Colomb) and co-organizes the music, poetry and performance event Hard Work (with Ed Shipsey). His essays and reviews have appeared in PN Review, 3:AM Magazine, Tentacular, Dada/ Surrealism and Historical Materialism. He also contributed to the edited collections Critical Theory Today: On the Limits and Relevance of an Intellectual Tradition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and Music, the Avant-Garde, and Counterculture: Invisible Republics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

In Japan the season for spooky stories is summer - chills and shivers are refreshing in the heat. At the end of each tale a candle goes out, until all is darkness. For this uniquely unnerving evening local teller Laura Sampson will be joined by special guest Polis Loizou. As well as live sounds and theremin accompaniment from Sam Enthoven the event will also feature a rakugo performance from Ben Sohawon. Join us!

Join author Misitia Ravaloson to celebrate the release of her novel The Eucalyptus Tree. Free event!

The Eucalyptus Tree follows two parallel stories: one set in Madagascar, the other in London, seen through the eyes of a young Malagasy girl. It offers a rare glimpse into Malagasy culture and traditions, and a fresh perspective on life in London from someone discovering it for the first time. At its heart, it’s a moving story about resilience, family, and the fight to break free from a cycle of struggle.

Misitia Ravaloson is a writer originally from Madagascar, now living in the U.K. She studied Journalism and currently works as a Senior SEO Manager. Misitia writes with heart, drawing deep inspiration from her roots, her lived experiences, and the people she loves most. Her signature as an author is to shine a light on Madagascar, an island so often overlooked in fiction and literature, yet rich with stories, culture, and resilience that deserve to be heard.