A literary salon
Poetic interpretations
- Friday, 13 February 2026, 6.30 - 7.30 pm
- Friday, 27 March 2026, 3 - 4 pm
- Friday, 24 April 2026, 3 - 4 pm
About
Join poet and host Danielle Wilde for our new literary salon featuring some of the most exciting voices in contemporary literature.
Each performance invites different folk from the literary world, announced at the performance itself. See below for the monthly themes.
Sonnets in the salon
The night before Valentine's Day come and listen to literary voices share their work on love in all its messy iterations alongside their favourites from the canon.
Literary voices: Kae Tempest, Hasti
A poetic interpretation of light and dark
In this episode of the literary salon various voices discuss what the light illuminates and what the dark reveals, sharing their own work alongside their favourites from the canon.
A poetic interpretation of the natural world
Some of the most exciting voices in contemporary literature discuss beasts, human and animal, sharing their own work alongside their favourites from the canon.
Your host
Danielle Wilde is a poet and writer from Yorkshire. Her work examines class, culture, desire and the queer hauntology of the North. Her words have appeared in Vogue, Dazed, Stylist and the fevered dreamscapes of tracksuit nihilists across the West Riding. Danielle has performed for Queer Bloomsbury festival at Charleston House, LGBTQ+ Late at Wallace Collection, Outspoken at South Bank Centre and as part of Caleb Femi’s Sloghouse collective for Deptford Literature Festival and Bold Tendencies. Her first pamphlet Deep North was published by FEM Press in 2024 and her sonnet cycle Saint Joan of BFD was published in 2025 as part of her residency with Wild Pansy Press at Florence Trust. She is currently Writer in Residence at Somerset House Studios