The Monday Night Series presents live sets from emerging and established poets. Unruly and thoroughly enjoyable, The series was created by a collective of poets to affirm live poetry’s role as unpretentious but transformative. Come along, bring your mates, and a listening ear.
The Monday Night Series is possible through its co-creation with the legendary venue, The Social.
Gayathiri is a Tamil poet and producer. Gayathiri is a recipient of the Disabled Poets Prize, the Faber & Andlyn Publisher's Prize and the RSL Literature Matters Award. An alumna of the Southbank Centre New Poets Collective, Gayathiri runs Word-Benders, a poetry workshop centering the work of trans and queer poets of colour. Their novel-in-verse, Bad Queer, is forthcoming with Faber. gayathiri.co.uk, @unembarrassable.
Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His first book, Soho (Faber & Faber, 2018), was a Gay’s the Word book of the year and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize. His second poetry collection, That Broke into Shining Crystals, was published by Faber & Faber in February 2025. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His poetry has been translated into German and French.
Hasti is a poet and writer living in South East London. A member of the inaugural Southbank New Poets Collective and the Ledbury Poetry Critics, they are the recipient of the 2023 White Review Poet's Prize, the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry, and have recently published poems in bathmagg, zindabad zine, and The Poetry Review. They have co-written short sci-fi film DIGGING, produced by Film4, and published pamphlets ‘U’ with Reference Press and ‘Agitations & Birdsong’ with Bleet! zine. Hasti also hosts open mic and poetry night Fresh Lip, and its sister show for Montez Press Radio, Fresh Air.
Toye Oladinni is a British-Nigerian writer from London. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Dublin Review, London Review of Books, Paper Visual Art, Litro and Epiphany.
Maria Leonard has been shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize and the Rebecca Swift Women Poets’ Prize, and her writing has appeared in Modern Queer Poets by Pilot Press, at ACUD Theater Berlin and Omnibus Theatre. She’s an independent curator, and was given the Goethe Institut New York Curatorial Research Fellowship in 2023-2024.
