2022-2023
Friday 16 June 2023: Performing songs with Marc Woodward, and reading poems with Marc Woodward, Sally Flint, and Corinna Wagner for the Private View of 'Corinna Wagner: TerraOceanus', an exhibition at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
Tuesday 25 October 2022: Reading from Habitat (Blueprint Press) with Matthew Called, Tim Cumming, and Claire Collison at the London Welsh Centre, Gary's Inn Road
Friday 9 September 2022: Performing songs with Andy Brown, and reading poems with Andy Brown, Sally Flint, and Corinna Wagner for the Private View of 'Above and Below', an exhibition at Artisan Collective Gallery, Torquay
Saturday 3 September 2022: Performing songs with Andy Brown, and reading poems with Andy Brown, Sally Flint, and Corinna Wagner for the final evening of 'Unstable Ground', an exhibition at Studio KIND, Braunton
Tuesday 31 May 2022: Reading from Habitat (Blueprint Press, 2021) with Andy Brown for 'Arts and Culture' at the University of Exeter, Queen's Building, Streatham Campus
Friday 16 June 2023: Performing songs with Marc Woodward, and reading poems with Marc Woodward, Sally Flint, and Corinna Wagner for the Private View of 'Corinna Wagner: TerraOceanus', an exhibition at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
Tuesday 25 October 2022: Reading from Habitat (Blueprint Press) with Matthew Called, Tim Cumming, and Claire Collison at the London Welsh Centre, Gary's Inn Road
Friday 9 September 2022: Performing songs with Andy Brown, and reading poems with Andy Brown, Sally Flint, and Corinna Wagner for the Private View of 'Above and Below', an exhibition at Artisan Collective Gallery, Torquay
Saturday 3 September 2022: Performing songs with Andy Brown, and reading poems with Andy Brown, Sally Flint, and Corinna Wagner for the final evening of 'Unstable Ground', an exhibition at Studio KIND, Braunton
Tuesday 31 May 2022: Reading from Habitat (Blueprint Press, 2021) with Andy Brown for 'Arts and Culture' at the University of Exeter, Queen's Building, Streatham Campus
2020-2021
Sunday 26 September 2021: The Poetry Place, on West Wilts Radio, with Sue Proffitt, hosted by Dawn Gorman
Tuesday 7 September 2021: The Sixteenth International Novi Sad Literature Festival (Serbia)
Tuesday 18 August 2020: My reading of 'On the Pequod' appears on the Poetry Wales YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOoxVdb8S0o
Friday 14 August 2020: My reading of 'Static' appears on The Poetry Archive's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfs-OA53hqY
Sunday 26 September 2021: The Poetry Place, on West Wilts Radio, with Sue Proffitt, hosted by Dawn Gorman
Tuesday 7 September 2021: The Sixteenth International Novi Sad Literature Festival (Serbia)
Tuesday 18 August 2020: My reading of 'On the Pequod' appears on the Poetry Wales YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOoxVdb8S0o
Friday 14 August 2020: My reading of 'Static' appears on The Poetry Archive's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfs-OA53hqY
2019 - 2020
The Cracked Skull Cinema Tour
Wednesday 25 March: TROIKA: HOURS Space, Bristol: with Matthew Caley and Tim Cumming CANCELLED OWING TO COVID-19
Tuesday 3 March: Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh: for Vespers: with Tim Cumming and Christopher Meredith
Friday 28 February: Charlton Kings, Cheltenham: for New Bohemians: reading, and performing song-versions of poems
Wednesday 19 February: Smokey Joe's, Cheltenham: for Poetry Cafe Refreshed
Wednesday 11 December: Old Murenger House, Newport: with David Clarke
Friday 22 November: Bristol Grammar School Library: preforming songs with Tom Biddle for Robert Massey's book launch
Saturday 9 November: Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh: with Kaddy Benyon, Peter Daniels, and Andrew McDonnell for Poetry in Aldeburgh
Friday 8 November: The Cross Keys, Aldeburgh: performing song versions of the poems for Poetry in Aldeburgh
Sunday 3 November: Art Bank Voices, Shepton Mallet: for the Festival of Death and Dying
Tuesday 2 October: Abingdon School, Oxfordshire: workshop and reading
Monday 16 September: The Gallimaufry, Bristol: playing song versions of poems from the book
Monday 9 September: The Word Cafe Radio Show: for Dial-a-Poet, hosted by Julie Mullen
Friday 6 September: HOURS, Bristol: for Silver Street
Wednesday 10 July: The Greenback Inn, Bristol: for Satellite of Love, with Sophie Herxheimer
Thursday 23 May: The Arts House, Bristol: with David Clarke
Wednesday 15 May: The Bell Inn, Bath: with David Clarke
Thursday 9 May: Exeter University Department of English: workshop and reading
The Cracked Skull Cinema Tour
Wednesday 25 March: TROIKA: HOURS Space, Bristol: with Matthew Caley and Tim Cumming CANCELLED OWING TO COVID-19
Tuesday 3 March: Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh: for Vespers: with Tim Cumming and Christopher Meredith
Friday 28 February: Charlton Kings, Cheltenham: for New Bohemians: reading, and performing song-versions of poems
Wednesday 19 February: Smokey Joe's, Cheltenham: for Poetry Cafe Refreshed
Wednesday 11 December: Old Murenger House, Newport: with David Clarke
Friday 22 November: Bristol Grammar School Library: preforming songs with Tom Biddle for Robert Massey's book launch
Saturday 9 November: Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh: with Kaddy Benyon, Peter Daniels, and Andrew McDonnell for Poetry in Aldeburgh
Friday 8 November: The Cross Keys, Aldeburgh: performing song versions of the poems for Poetry in Aldeburgh
Sunday 3 November: Art Bank Voices, Shepton Mallet: for the Festival of Death and Dying
Tuesday 2 October: Abingdon School, Oxfordshire: workshop and reading
Monday 16 September: The Gallimaufry, Bristol: playing song versions of poems from the book
Monday 9 September: The Word Cafe Radio Show: for Dial-a-Poet, hosted by Julie Mullen
Friday 6 September: HOURS, Bristol: for Silver Street
Wednesday 10 July: The Greenback Inn, Bristol: for Satellite of Love, with Sophie Herxheimer
Thursday 23 May: The Arts House, Bristol: with David Clarke
Wednesday 15 May: The Bell Inn, Bath: with David Clarke
Thursday 9 May: Exeter University Department of English: workshop and reading
I'm potentially available for readings and literary festivals; please use the CONTACT page. As well as organising a short-lived-but-well-received reading series called Park Street Poetry (2011-2013), which I've archived here, I've read my poems at a range of venues with some great poets. A few particular highlights include:
2014 - 2018
2018 Bristol University: inaugural reading for my residency with the Bristol Poetry Institute.
2018 Poet-in-Residence at the University of Bristol, in association with the Bristol Poetry Institute, April to July
2018 ‘Sequencing a Poetry Collection or Pamphlet’: guest lecture to third-year Creative Writing undergraduates
at the University of Bath Spa
2018 For Pighog, Brighton, with Vicki Husband.
2017 LRB Bookshop, Bloomsbury: launch of Magma 67: Bones & Breath, with A B Jackson, Rob A MacKenzie, Alison Brackenbury, Holly Corfield-Carr, et al.
2016 Mackay Theatre for Bristol Poetry Festival, with Matthew Caley, Rachael Boast and Rosie Jackson
2016 Bristol Folk House: launch of Vision Helmet (Maquette Press, 2016), with Andy Brown and music from Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe
2015 St James Wine Vaults, Bath: accompanying my own reading by playing new songs for the first time in years.
2014 NATE Annual Conference, with Rachael Boast, Helen Mort and Andrew Jamison
2014 The Watershed, Bristol, for Biosphere Festival, with Claire Williamson and Lorna Goodison
2014 Everyman Theatre for Cheltenham Poetry Festival, with Don Paterson
2014 Bath Spa University, hosted by Carrie Etter
2014 Topping & Company, Bath: launch of Rain Rider (Salt, 2013)
2018 Poet-in-Residence at the University of Bristol, in association with the Bristol Poetry Institute, April to July
2018 ‘Sequencing a Poetry Collection or Pamphlet’: guest lecture to third-year Creative Writing undergraduates
at the University of Bath Spa
2018 For Pighog, Brighton, with Vicki Husband.
2017 LRB Bookshop, Bloomsbury: launch of Magma 67: Bones & Breath, with A B Jackson, Rob A MacKenzie, Alison Brackenbury, Holly Corfield-Carr, et al.
2016 Mackay Theatre for Bristol Poetry Festival, with Matthew Caley, Rachael Boast and Rosie Jackson
2016 Bristol Folk House: launch of Vision Helmet (Maquette Press, 2016), with Andy Brown and music from Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe
2015 St James Wine Vaults, Bath: accompanying my own reading by playing new songs for the first time in years.
2014 NATE Annual Conference, with Rachael Boast, Helen Mort and Andrew Jamison
2014 The Watershed, Bristol, for Biosphere Festival, with Claire Williamson and Lorna Goodison
2014 Everyman Theatre for Cheltenham Poetry Festival, with Don Paterson
2014 Bath Spa University, hosted by Carrie Etter
2014 Topping & Company, Bath: launch of Rain Rider (Salt, 2013)
2011- 2013
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2013 The Poetry Place, Covent Garden: launch of Rain Rider (Salt, 2013),
with Roddy Lumsden, Matthew Caley, and Patrick Brandon 2013 Cutlers Hall, Bristol: launch of The Echoing Gallery (Redcliffe Press, 2013), with Rachael Boast, Claire Williamson, David Clarke, Holly Corfield-Carr, et al, and music from Hat in Hand 2013 Arnolfini for Bristol Poetry Festival, with Louis de Bernieres and Rachael Boast 2013 The Oak Room, Cattistock: guest reader at launch of Poems From the Oak Room, edited by Annie Freud 2012 Boston Tea Party for Park Street Poetry, Bristol: accompanying Roddy Lumsden, Katy Evans-Bush, and Tamar Yoseloff 2012 The Oak Room, Cattistock, with Rachael Boast and Annie Freud 2011 Sussex University, with Peter Abbs, Abi Curtis, et al 2011 Edin's Bar, Nottingham: joint launch with Matthew Caley of The Method Men (Salt, 2010) and Apparently (Bloodaxe, 2010) 2011 The Betsey Trotwood, Faringdon, with Matthew Caley and John Stammers |
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2002 - 2010
2010 The Troubadour, Earl's Court: with judges and other shortlisted poets for the London Festival Poetry Prize
2010 The Phoenix Artists' Club, Charing Cross Road: with Agnieszka Studzinska and Mark Granier
2010 Bristol Grammar School: launch of The Method Men (Salt, 2010)
2010 Arnolfini for Bristol Poetry Festival, with Ruth Fainlight and Patrick Brandon.
2008 The Troubador, Earl's Court: as Showcase poet for the launch of Magma 40
2008 Arnolfini for Bristol Poetry Festival, with Jacob Polley, Maura Dooley and Jane Griffiths
2007 The Poetry Place, Covent Garden, with Inua Ellams
2005 Al's Bar, Exmouth Market: launch of Reactions 5 (Pen & Inc Press, 2005), with Clare Pollard, Gareth Jones, John McCullough, Meryl Pugh, et al
2004 YHA Narrow Quay, Bristol, with Roddy Lumsden and Philip Gross
2003 BBC Bristol: on the Keith Warmington Show with Roddy Lumsden
2002 The Poetry Place, Covent Garden: with fellow Eric Gregory Award Winners Jacob Polley, Kathryn Simmonds, Eleanor Rees, Christopher James, Luke
Heeley, Caroline Bird, and Judith Lal
2010 The Phoenix Artists' Club, Charing Cross Road: with Agnieszka Studzinska and Mark Granier
2010 Bristol Grammar School: launch of The Method Men (Salt, 2010)
2010 Arnolfini for Bristol Poetry Festival, with Ruth Fainlight and Patrick Brandon.
2008 The Troubador, Earl's Court: as Showcase poet for the launch of Magma 40
2008 Arnolfini for Bristol Poetry Festival, with Jacob Polley, Maura Dooley and Jane Griffiths
2007 The Poetry Place, Covent Garden, with Inua Ellams
2005 Al's Bar, Exmouth Market: launch of Reactions 5 (Pen & Inc Press, 2005), with Clare Pollard, Gareth Jones, John McCullough, Meryl Pugh, et al
2004 YHA Narrow Quay, Bristol, with Roddy Lumsden and Philip Gross
2003 BBC Bristol: on the Keith Warmington Show with Roddy Lumsden
2002 The Poetry Place, Covent Garden: with fellow Eric Gregory Award Winners Jacob Polley, Kathryn Simmonds, Eleanor Rees, Christopher James, Luke
Heeley, Caroline Bird, and Judith Lal
