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Readings & events

Forthcoming

11 January 2024 – reading at Needlewriters, Lewes

2023

2 June 2023 – reading at Frogmore at 40, celebrating 40 years of the Frogmore Press, New Venture Theatre, Brighton

4 April 2023 – reading at launch of Finished Creatures 7 at the Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon

2022

5 October 2022 – reading and introducing the judging, Eastbourne Poetry Cafe ‘Eastbourne and the Environment’ poetry competition results night, for National Poetry Day

28 September 2022 – reading at the Frogmore Papers 100th issue launch

6 June 2022 – reading at a private launch event

2021 (*online events)

*23 July 2021 – reading at the launch of Lighthouse 22

*5 June 2021 – reading at the launch of Butcher’s Dog 15

*5 May 2021 – reading at the launch of Antony Mair’s new collection A Suitcase Filled with Hope

*21 March 2021 – reading at the Eastbourne Poetry Cafe International World Poetry Day event

*19 February 2021 – reading for Live Canon lunchtime readings

*15 January 2021 – reading at Poetry from the South East (a Frogmore Papers/Needlewriters event)

*11 January 2021 – reading at a Mary Evans Picture Library co-hosted event with Arts Destination South Molton

2020

8 March 2020  – reading at Boulevard Theatre, London, alongside fellow Live Canon poets Miranda Peake, Tania Hershman and Katie Griffiths

2018 – 19

28 November 2019 – reading at Rogue Strands poetry night at the King & Queen, London W1.

25 November 2019 – reading at launch of my new Live Canon pamphlet Why? alongside fellow pamphleteers Tania Hershman, Miranda Peake and Katie Griffiths. Boulevard Theatre Bar, London

6 July 2019 – reading at Ver Prize Reading, Maltings Arts Theatre, St Albans

4 July 2019 – reading at launch of Magma 74, Exmouth Market, London

10 February 2019 – featured guest at Buzzwords, Cheltenham

11 January 2019 – featured guest at Poets Cafe, South Street Arts Centre, Reading

28 November 2018 – featured guest at Open Mic Poetry, Chichester

5 October 2018 – reading at Poetry Swindon Festival

5 – 8 October 2018 – Blogger in Residence at Poetry Swindon Festivalread all my blogs posts & reviews of readings here

25 April 2018 –  reading at launch of Telltale Press Anthology, Lewes

5 April 2018 – reading at Needlewriters, Lewes

20 March 2018 – featured guest at Kent & Sussex Poetry Society, Tunbridge Wells

22 February 2018 – launch of new pamphlet All the Relevant Gods (Cinnamon Press) at the Printers Playhouse, Eastbourne. Reading with Stephen Bone who was launching his Indigo Dreams pamphlet Plainsong, and special guests Antony Mair and Sarah Barnsley.

2016 – 17

19 December 2017 – launch of Coast to Coast to Coast 2 at the Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

13 November 2017 – Loose Muse, Discovery Centre, Winchester

1 November 2017 – Telltale Press & Friends, The Poetry Cafe, London

10 October 2017 – InWords, West Greenwich Library, London SE10 – with contributors to the ‘Pictures & Poems’ blog of the Mary Evans Picture Library

27 September 2017 – Eastbourne Poetry Cafe, the Underground Theatre, Eastbourne, with Hastings Stanza poets

28 July 2017 – reading at launch of Magma 68, The London Review Bookshop

30 June 2017 – reading with Hastings Stanza poets at The Bookkeeper, Kings Road, St Leonards on Sea

2 April 2017 – reading at the launch of ‘Best New British & Irish Poets 2017’ (Eyewear)

29 November 2016 – reading at The Troubadour, London

5 October 2016 – reading at the launch of Jess Mookherjee’s The Swell (Telltale Press) at the Pitcher and Piano, Tunbridge Wells

29 July – reading at the St Anne’s Festival, Lewes

9 July – reading at St Leonard’s Festival event with members of Hastings Stanza

8 July – reading at The Writers’ Place, Jew Street, Brighton, for New Writing South

29 June – reading at the launch of Abegail Morley’s The Skin Diary (Nine Arches Press) at the Pitcher and Piano, Tunbridge Wells

20 April – reading at Poetry at the Underground Theatre Cafe, Eastbourne, event includes open mic

13 April – reading at Telltale Press & Friends, The Lewes Arms, Lewes with Abegail Morley, Sarah Barnsley and Rebecca White

23 March – reading at Word on Wednesday with members  of the Needlewriters collective – Jeremy Page, Janet Sutherland & Clare Best, at the Nineveh Art Gallery in Havant

7 March 2016 – reading a poem at Coffee House Poetry at The Troubadour, ‘Sea’ themed night

2015

23 November – reading for the Brighton Stanza at Stanza Bonanza with Kent & Sussex, Poetry Cafe, London

29 October  – reading at Words & Ears, Bradford-on-Avon

16 October – reading at Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford, at the launch of Martin Malone‘s new collection Cur

14 October – reading at launch of South 52, Cluny Hall, Lewes

22 June – reading at Camberwell Arts Festival, with Richard Skinner, Roy Marshall and Josephine Corcoran

18 June – reading at Telltale Poets & Friends, Poetry Cafe, London

14 June – reading at St Anne’s, Lewes, with Ann Segrave, Jeremy Page and Mandy Pannett

20 May – reading at the launch of Brittle Star issue 36, Barbican Library, London

3 May  – reading alongside Patricia McCarthy & Jill Munro at Mayfield Fringe Festival

30 April – reading alongside Andreea Stan at Pighog/Red Hen Poetry Night, Brighton

25 April – on the expert panel at New Writing South Publishing Industry Day, Brighton

22 April – Poetry in the House, reading at Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, London. Hosted by Shanta Acharya

15 April – Telltale Poets & Friends (hosting), The Lewes Arms, Lewes

26 March – reading at the Needlewriters Anthology launch, Lewes

9 March – reading at Troubadour themed night Big Yellow Taxi!

22 January 2015 – Needlewriters, Lewes – reading alongside Kerry Evans and Bethan Roberts

7 January 2015 – Telltale Poets & Friends, Poetry Cafe, London – reading alongside Catherine Smith, Rhona McAdam, Siegfried Baber & Peter Kenny

2013 – 14

8 December 2014 – Brighton Stanza Seasonal event, reading

26 November 2014 – Reading at the Poetry Society Annual General Meeting, Keats House, London, alongside Daljit Nagra and Susannah Fitzpatrick

1 October 2014 – London, Poetry Cafe, Telltale Press public launch

24 September 2014 – Lewes, Telltale Press private launch event

17 September 2014 – Lewes, Telltale Press private launch event

25 June, Stanza Bonanza (poets from Brighton and Palmers Green) at the Poetry Cafe, London – reading and sharing the MC

5 June 2014, Special poetry evening in memory of Jo Grigg, Brighton

2 June 2014, Lamb Festival, All Saints Church, Edmonton

6 March 2014 – Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford – launch of The Interpreter’s House 55

28 November 2013 – Tunbridge Wells Library, reading with Abegail Morley & friends

8 August 2013 – Bluegate Poets, Swindon

17 January 2013 – Ten Voice Stanza, Brighton

2009 and 2012 – Pecha Kucha Nights, Brighton:  poetry inspired by and performed to photographs by Simon Dale

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