Readings and talks and workshops 2024:
I was really excited to have been invited to appear at the Newcastle Poetry Festival in 2024. There’s a brilliant range of speakers and workshops. My dates are below, but I warmly advise you to check out the festival link, as events are both live and online, and I’m going to be attending as many as possible.
For anyone in the Newcastle area, I’ll be teaching an-in person workshop on Colour as portal and energy channel: working the rainbow to amplify your poems’ impact and reach on Friday 10 May, between 1-3pm. Click the title to book.
We’ll be exploring how colour can be channelled to intensify the emotional, political and philosophical resonances of your poems. Generative practical exercises will offer fresh ways into creating – including a colour-themed guided freewrite, and a three stage writing exercise drawing together memory and association with found materials to begin new and develop new work. I’ll be supplying visual prompts and art materials. Supporting this, we will also look at colour theory and consider how colour is used by poets including Elisabeth Bishop, Gail McConnell, Airea D. Matthews, Anthony Joseph, Paul Tran, Padraig Regan and Ella Frears.
I’ll also be reading live and online with my fellow Pavilion Poet Hannah Copely between 1.30 to 2.30 pm on Saturday 11 May as part of Pavilion Poetry’s 10th birthday celebration. Hannah has recently published her wonderful second collection, Lapwing, and I’ll be reading from bird of winter.
You can book live tickets here.
You can book online tickets here.
I was very excited to appear live and online at the Verve Poetry Festival in Birmingham this year with the incredible poets Nicole Sealey and Rebecca Goss. We headlined together on Saturday 24 February at the Patrick Studio in the Birmingham Hippodrome.
I taught workshops that go deep with using colour in your work, titled ‘Working the Rainbow’, and I’ll be offering the colour workshop again live in Newcastle.
2023
Wormholes at Ledbury Festival: A live in person workshop in making hand erasures 14-16 00 BST 1 July. In this joyous, reclamatory workshop we will be incorporating breath and short meditative practices to tune in to our unconscious and bodily selves and make hand erasures. These will create openings for stories that have not been able to find their ways into the world through more direct routes and help us speak those parts of ourselves which have been unspoken or held underground.
Tsaa with Roma : Writing the Felt Self Workshop 14 00 BST 22 June Online
Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia, Friday 18 November, reading from bird of winter, live only.
Out-spoken Live Southbank 25 November 7.45 pm .
Forwards Prizes for Poetry 24 October 7pm book here for livestream at £7.50.
Forward Prizes book here for the in person ceremony at the Southbank at £15.00
Chener Books online Thursday 9 September at 7pm with Alice Miller and Sarah Westcott: For tickets please email: chenerbookshop@gmail.com
Poetry Book Society with Anthony Anaxagarou & Luke Kennard at 7pm 28 July Please click here to view the recording on YouTube.
Launch of bird of winter by alice hiller, Pavilion Poetry, 5 May 2021 here.
Reading with Julie Irigaray, Maia Elsner and Jennifer Lee Tsai to launch Julie’s debut with Nine Pens on 30 May 2021 here.
What We Read Now: Strength February 2021 with L. Kiew, Tolu Agebelusi and Serge Neptune
Two poems from the online launch of the Cambridge Literary Review here
‘Moon Poems from the Dark Side’: 7 pm The Harrison, 17/10/19. Bloomsbury Festival.
Launch of Dodo Provocateur by Anita Pati, The Poet, 24/9/19.
Behind the Mask Another Mask: Corrupted Poetry, October Gallery, 11/9/19 7.15 Details.
Poetry Society Poem-a-thon, 18/5/19, Poetry Cafe, 14.10 Details
Magma Launch: 2/4/19 Studio Voltaire, Clapham.
Poetry Festival Aldeburgh Queer Studio with Mary Jean Chan, Richard Scott, Caleb Parkin, Swithun Cooper and Danne Jobin and others at 17.30 on 3 November https://snapemaltings.co.uk/tickets/book/?eID=93002
Creative Futures Literary Awards
26 October 2018, Southbank Centre, 6.45 Book your Ticket
Stanza Bonanza : Poetry Cafe London, Betterton Street London.
23 August 2018 7 for 7.30 reading with my fellow Covent Garden Stanza poets.
Poetry Cafe, London :
7 October 2017 : Jerwood Arvon Mentees 2017-8
Hippocrates Awards :
The Poetry Foundation, Chicago : 11 May 2018-05-02
Jerwood Arvon Launch Midnight Listening :
Free Word Word Centre : 5 June 2018
‘Sculpture as Music’ :
Oxford Lieder Festival, Ashmolean Museum, 11.00 18 October 2018