Poetry London, Annual Showcase at RSA House

Poetry London hosts its annual showcase in the Royal Society of Arts' historic Great Room. Join us for an evening of poetry, art and drinks.

Featured Poets:

Isabel Galleymore

Isabel Galleymore’s second poetry collection is Baby Schema (Carcanet, 2024). Her poems have featured in The New York Review of Books, the TLS and Poetry. In 2022-23, she was a Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham.

Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit’s ninth poetry collection, Beast, published by Bloodaxe in 2025, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her novel, My Hummingbird Father, was published by Salt in 2024. She has published nine collections, four of which were shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Mama Amazonica won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the inaugural Laurel Prize for eco-poetry, and Tiger Girl was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and for Wales Book of the Year. She was Poetry Editor of Poetry London for fourteen years.

Niall Campbell

Niall Campbell is a poet from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. His first poetry collection, Moontide, won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and Saltire First Book of the Year. Noctuary, his second collection, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2019. A selection from these first two books were published in the U.S. as First Nights, part of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. His latest collection, The Island in the Sound, is currently shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best Collection. He works as a librettist and is the editor of the acclaimed poetry journal, Poetry London. He lives in Fife.

Showcase will take place in the Great Room, and you are welcome to come to our Muse Bar before and after the event.

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