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Toby Campion

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Poet / Playwright / Presenter
Director: @uni_slam
Creative writing tutor: @citylit & @verse.salon
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November’s roundup of events, submissions and workshops is out 🩷

Subscribe to the @verse.salon roundup to see more and be the first to hear about it

#poetry #london #queer #poetrycommunity #writingprompts by @tobycampion

🚨 Dates have dropped for @uni_slam 2027 📖 get it in your diary!

📍 Warwick Arts Centre
📆 Friday 2nd April - Sunday 4th April 2027

Team sign ups will open on December 1st and places are allocated on a first come first serve basis with a waitlist system. DM or email us for your registration form or more information on how to register.

#poetry #poetryslam #spokenword #slam #poetrycommunity

📷: @processproductions @by_christabel by @tobycampion

Sign ups are now open for our final Writing Social of the year! @poetry_pharmacy_ on Wednesday 25th November: write new poems, make new friends.

Spaces strictly limited, booking essential. Link in bio @verse.salon

#poetry #london #bookstagram #bookworm #writing by @tobycampion

Experience the power of writing in community at our next Writing Social at @poetry_pharmacy_ with @verse.salon

📍 Poetry Pharmacy, Oxford Street
📅 Wednesday 25th November 2026

90 minutes of guided writing exercises to get you writing new poems and meeting new people.

This poem was inspired by Patient Intake Questionnaire by Caroline Bird.

#poetry #bookish #writingprompts #bookstagram #london by @tobycampion

✨ A little poetry, a lot of connection, and a reminder to make space for your creativity. I have this urge to create more and consume less.

Back in London and straight into something special! 💛

I braved the Oxford Street crowds (and yes, forgot my umbrella 🙃) to join my friend @tobycampion who runs a poetry community called @verse.salon — we met at the @poetry_pharmacy_ which is tucked away on the first floor of @lush on Oxford Street.

For 90 minutes, we wrote poetry, explored poems together, shared ideas, and connected with new people in the cosiest of spaces. No poetry degree required — just curiosity and a willingness to play with words.

Toby is an award-winning poet, and I left feeling inspired, creatively recharged, and reminded of how powerful it can be to come together around something new.

📝 Toby also runs six-week poetry courses, and I’m already dreaming up a Circle London gathering with him!

Because at Circle London, we believe community is about more than meeting people. It’s about sharing experiences, discovering new parts of ourselves, and finding connection in unexpected places.

Would you come to a poetry gathering with us? 💌 Tell us in the comments!

📍 The Poetry Pharmacy, Oxford Street, London

With love,
Alex, The Circle London 🫶🏼

#CircleLondon #ThePoetryPharmacy #Poetry #LondonCommunity #Create by @tobycampion

*Booking essential, very limited space**

The best place to write in London is bringing you a morning Writing Social on Wednesday 21st October.

90 minutes of guided exercises to get you writing new poems and meeting new people at @poetry_pharmacy_ on Oxford Street, run by @verse.salon

Limited availability, booking essential. Follow link in bio to reserve your spot

#poetry #london #writing #poetrycommunity #booklover by @tobycampion

#nationalcomingoutday ❤️🌈 by @tobycampion

☀️ #gay by @tobycampion

@teamlondonbridge invited the @poetry_takeaway to the Shard for @nationalpoetryday ✍️📖

What would you order a poem about?

#poetry #nationalpoetryday #londonbridge #teamlondonbridge #london by @tobycampion

The power of writing poetry with 10 strangers at this month’s Writing Social at the @poetry_pharmacy_ with @verse.salon

Inspired by the poem ‘Distance’ by @millerkei

Write your own poems and meet new people at next month’s event happening on 21st October. Places limited, booking essential - link in bio.

📍 Poetry Pharmacy, Oxford Street, London
📆 Wednesdays 21st October

#poetry #london #queer #poetrycommunity #secretlondon by @tobycampion

Queer stories in the wild. by @tobycampion

@tobycampion treated the Jawdance audience to a preview of what we can expect from his upcoming poetry collection. Gardy Loo was inspired by an altercation at a drag show on the way back from a pride celebration, and is performed first in polari and then in standard English.

Toby's is an award-winning poet, playwright and educator. He's also one of the UK's most consistent champions of polari — a poetic and subversive slang used by gay men and queer people when homosexuality was illegal in the UK.

Jawdance returns to our home @brxhousetheatre in September. If you'd like to join us in the audience or on-stage, you know where to click.

#thingstodoinlondon #performancepoetry #polari by @tobycampion