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 BPI.
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 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
