A relaxed evening of open mic hosted by award-winning poet and facilitator, Grace Atkinson.

Come join us for poetry at Perkyn's N15 with Nisha Ramayya, Hasti and Jake Wild Hall. A relaxed evening of open mic hosted by award-winning poet and facilitator, Grace Atkinson. Limited open mic tickets available.

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Grace Atkinson is an award-winning poet and facilitator from East London. Her work has appeared in Stand, The Rialto, Bath Magg, The North, Spoonfeed, Poetry Salzburg Review, Leslie, t’ART, Dazed Magazine, among others. In 2026, she was awarded a prize in the Derby Poetry Festival Poetry Prize and was awarded a prize in the Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize. She recently completed a residency with the University of Sheffield, exploring the influence of sports culture in Tottenham. In 2024, she was invited by her local station, South Tottenham, to write a poem marking the opening of the new Suffragette Overground line.

Hasti is a poet and writer living in South East London. Their debut pamphlet young, dumb, and full of poems, won the Michael Marks Award 2026 and is out now with Bad Betty.

Nisha Ramayya works across poetry, criticism, and collaborative performance, and teaches creative writing. She’s the author of two poetry collections, States of the Body Produced by Love (Ignota 2019; reissued by Spiral House Editions in 2025) and Fantasia (Granta, 2024), as well as the co-authored pamphlets Threads and Siblings, among other publications.

Jake Wild Hall is an award winning poet and one half of Bad Betty Press. He has performed on BBC Radio and at festivals and literary events across the UK. He is a multiple slam champion and his work has been published in magazines, anthologies and online journals. He is the Author of two pamphlets Solomon’s World which was longlisted for the Saboteur award for best pamphlet and Blank.

He has worked with partners including Penguin, Apple’s and Snakes, Writing East Midlands, Derby Poetry Festival and Pearsons. He has also been a guest tutor for Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham University, King’s College London, Lincoln University and others.

His debut collection Alanis Morissette was published by Broken Sleep Books in January 2026 and Longlisted for the Forward Prize for best first collection.

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