Poison: An evening of poetry and performance with Louise Warren
About this Event
Join poet Louise Warren for an evening of poetry and performance Inspired by all things poisonous. From arsenic to venom, fungi to fugu, delight in dark and deathly stories of unfortunate spouses, professional poisoners and how innocent plants can hide deadly secrets!
She will be reading original poems from her new collection Poison published by Tuba Press.
Copies of the book will be on sale on the night. Tickets include a complimentary glass of absinthe!
‘A dark and gothic sense of enjoyment of the sinister. Horribly amusing’. High Window Press.
'Throughout the collection Warren uses her transformative imagination to advantage changing commonplace perspectives to something fresh and memorable.’. London Grip.
Louise Warren is a poet and writer.
Her first collection A Child’s Last Picture of the Zoo won the Cinnamon Press debut poetry competition and was published in 2012. A pamphlet In the scullery with John Keats also published by Cinnamon 2016. In 2018 she won first prize in the Prole Laureate Poetry Competition with her poem The Marshes which appears in her pamphlet John Dust illustrated by John Duffin published by V.Press in 2019. Sometime, in a Churchyard, is a collaboration with the artist Charlotte Harker published by Paekakariki Press October 2022. Poison was published by Tuba Press in 2025.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 10.00
