Welcome to the first in a series of intimate poetry readings and talks presented by Sunday Assembly London at the lovely Battersea Spanish in SW London. For this event, we are delighted to welcome award-winning poet and longtime Sunday Assembly community member Jenny Mitchell as our featured poet. Jenny's debut collection, Her Lost Language, was joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize 2019. Her second collection, Map of a Plantation, was published this year. She recently won the Folklore Prize and the Ware Poetry Prize.

The theme of the evening will be healing. It will be an opportunity to hear healing poems about legacies of historical trauma. We'd also like to invite you to participate by reading some of your poems during our open-mic. Please contact us if you'd like to read an original work. The order of events will be as follows:

Intro from Jenny

Open mic - 3 or 4 poets, one poem each

Jenny - 3 poems

Break- enjoy food and drinks at the venue's Tapas Room

Open mic - 3 or 4 poets, one poem each

Jenny - 3 poems

Q&A

We're very excited to return to in-person events as that's what we do best. This will also be our first hybrid event- we will livestream it to YouTube! You can choose one of two ticket options: General Admission if you will be attending in-person, or Livestream Ticket to receive the link for the livestream in your email inbox prior to the start of the event. If watching online, you'll be able to participate by asking questions in YouTube's live comments feed during the event.