Readings
17th June 2023 -
Long Poem Magazine launch, The Barbican Library, London
7th May 2023 - Dots Day -
How Long Is a Piece of String? - Royal Opera House, London
19th April 2023 - Opening Event - European Poetry Festival – Versopolis - Iklectik Artlab, London
1st April 2023 - Joint Launch with Tiffany Anne Tondut and Special Guest Glyn Maxwell – Tea House Theatre - Vauxhall, London
30th March 2023 - with Endre Ruset - Reading at The Scottish
Poetry Library
Tickets
25th March 2023 - with Endre Ruset - Reading at Oxford University
2nd February 2023 - Hark! - Reading at Tracks Darlington with Dianne Casey, Lisette Auton, Me Lost Me, Rebecca Denniff and Kim Ralls
29th January 2023 - Bob Beagrie's Launch of
The Last Almanac, with Mark Connors, Gill Connors, Penny Blackburn, Michael
Farren, Matt Nicholson, Dominic Nelson JP Ashley, p.a. morbid and
Harry Gallagher - The Chapel, Middlesbrough
10th November 2022 - Multilingual Creators - Translation Workshop
for Stephen Spender Prize Winners and Commended Poets - Stephen
Spender Trust
19th September - 24th September 2022 - with Katja Hoffman, Kalina
Maleska, Frances Hoffman and Paula Varjack,
Interlese
Festival, Germany
29th July 2022 - Wild Perspectives (Workshop) - Articentric,
Saltburn-by-the-Sea
27th July 2022 - Rhubarb Seconds Anthology Launch, The Rhubarb
Triangle, Shipley
7th July 2022 - European Poetry Festival, Spark Studios, York
16th June 2022 - with Aaron Kent, European Poetry Festival, St
John's, Bethnal Green, London
6th May 2022 - Launch Reading with David Spittle - The Bridge
Hotel, Newcastle Poetry Festival, Newcastle
Wednesday 6th April 2022 – Deichman Majorstuen - with Erik Van
Vold and Endre Ruset, Oslo, Norway
5th February - 5th April 2022 - Short Story Writing Course (Tutor)
- with Brightwater and Paper + Ink, Newton Aycliffe, Darlington
and Sedgefield
Wednesday 24th November 2021 – European Poetry Festival –
Hungarian Focus – Reading with Anna-Kata Ferenz, Iris Colomb, Anna
Vados and others, Hungarian Culture Centre, London
Tuesday 23rd November 2021 – European Poetry Festival - Norwegian
Focus - Reading with Endre Ruset, JT Welch, Susie Campbell, Maren
Nygard, Tamar Yoseloff and others, Open Ealing, London
Wednesday 17th November 2021 - Stephen Spender Prize Celebration
Event 2021 (Online) - Oxford
Sunday 7th November 2021 – Poetry in Aldeburgh (Online) Reading
with Endre Ruset, Lisa Kelly, Jo Dixon Morris and Shash Trevett
Tuesday 2nd November 2021 - Reading and Q & A with Endre Ruset,
Lillehammer Library, Norway
Sunday 24th October 2021 -
Too Loud, Too Young, Too Different Malika's Poetry Kitchen
(Supported by the Arvon Foundation) - Reading with the Malika's
Poetry Kitchen Family - London (Remote / Zoom)
1st October - 10th December 2021 - Lead Writer - Multilingual
Creators Workshop Series for the Stephen Spender Trust and New
Writing North, with Chloe Daniels and Jessica Rainey, Newcastle
14th August 2021 -
Torsken Kunstfestival with Endre Ruset,
Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen, Tove-Mari Odderdal, Anne May Fossnes,
Elemdin Zunic, Anastasia Hoff, Mari Woll and Sonja Sakowitsch,
Grimstad, Norway
11th August 2021 -
Deretter launch with Endre Ruset, Oslo,
Norway
28th July 2021 -
Utøya Thereafter Launch with Endre Ruset
and Tamar Yoseloff, London (Remote / Zoom)
23rd July 2021 - with Endre Ruset – One Off Indie Press Festival,
London (Remote / Zoom)
30th May 2021 - 1pm BST, with Endre Ruset, Brit Bildøen and Karin
Haugen – Norsk Litteraturfestival, Lillehammer, Norway
2nd November 2020 - 2pm GMT, with Nikola Madzirov, Elisa Biagini,
Hélène Cardona and George Szirtes – Chair Poetry Evenings
Festival, Kolkata, India
11th April 2020 - The European Poetry Festival with Maciej
Topolski, Luke Kennard, Radoslaw Jurczak, Eley Williams, Astrid
Alben, Tomica Bajsić, Nadia de Vries at RichMix, London
6th November 2019 - Launch of 'Nemeses' in York with Tom Jenks,
Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain, SJ Fowler and JT Welsch at University
of York.
26th October 2019 - Launch of 'Nemeses' with Prudence
Bussey-Chamberlain, SJ Fowler, Eley Williams, Ailbhe Darcy, Luke
Kennard, Joe Dunthorne & Karen Sandhu, St John's Church on Bethnal
Green, London
17th October 2019 - Nordic Poetry Festival with Ferdinand Jonsson,
Sara Elgerot, Meg Jensen, SJ Fowler, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Endre
Ruset, Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset, Morten Langeland and Silje
Ree, Museum of the Futures, London
19th September 2019 - Nordic Poetry Festival with Christodoulos
Makris, Maria Malinovskaya, Endre Ruset, Dan Andersen, Maja
Jantar, Jon Ståle Ritland, Fredrik Hagen and Eli Fossdal Waage,
Bergen Library, Norway
17th September 2019 - Nordic Poetry Festival with Christodoulos
Makris, Hilde Myklebust, Dan Andersen, Maria Malinovskaya, Endre
Ruset, Kasia Aglen, Maja Jantar, Jon Ståle Ritland and Eli Fossdal
Waage, Ålesund, Norway
14th July 2019 - Launch of
Greatist Hits II with SJ
Fowler, Torriano House, London
13th July 2019 - Poem Brut #11 with Lisa Kiew, Patrick Cosgrove
& Alex Hegazy, Mischa Foster Poole, Vilde Valerie Vilde
Torset, Paul Hawkins, Simon Tyrrell, Michael O'Mahony, SJ Fowler,
Rushika Rush, Jacqueline Ennis Cole and Maria Sledmere, Rich Mix,
London
10th July 2019 -
Dragons of the Prime - Poetry about
Dinosaurs for Children Launch - The Emma Press, The Poetry Café,
London
22nd June 2019 - The Electric Kool-Aid Cabaret Crossing the Tees
Special
27th April 2019 - Black Light Engine Room, Off the Ground Coffee,
Middlesbrough
6th April 2019 - The European Poetry Festival: The European
Camarade, Rich Mix, London
4th April 2019 - Norwegian Poetry Focus at Writers' Centre
Kingston, Rose Theatre, London
5th December 2018 - DiVerse #9 with Karishma Sangtani, Jade April
& Richard Boggie, Stockton
18th November 2018 - 'Ruin' Launch with Tom Weir, Wharf Chambers,
Leeds
17th October 2018 - Ouse Muse with Ali Brumfitt, Bedford
13th October 2018 - Collaboration with Jim Parkin, European Poetry
Festival Camarade, RichMix, London
6th October 2018 - 'Here Lies Our Land' with Rebecca Goss,
Kathleen Jamie and Fiona Moore, Winchester Poetry Festival
5th October 2018 - 'How to make a living as a Poet' Panel
Discussion with Matt West, chaired by Sarah Hesketh, Winchester
Poetry Festival
1st September 2018 -
Space Rebel Princess with Fully
Booked Theatre at Tamworth Library
24th - 27th August 2018 -
Space Rebel Princess with Fully
Booked Theatre at Greenbelt Festival
2nd - 5th August 2018 -
Space Rebel Princess with Fully
Booked Theatre at Stockton International Riverside Festival
27th July - 28th July 2018 -
Space Rebel Princess with
Fully Booked Theatre at DN Festival, Doncaster
27th June 2018 - Rhubarb, The Triangle, Leeds
9th June 2018 - Bath Spa University, Creative Writing Summer
Reading Series, Corsham
6th June 2018 - Poem Brut, The Poetry Library, The Southbank
Centre, London
26th April 2018 - T-Junction International Poetry Festival,
Middlesbrough Empire
26th - 29th April 2018 - T-Junction Poetry Festival, Middlesbrough
Includes five workshops in local schools in Teesside, curated by
Andy Croft at Smokestack.
14th April 2018 - European Poetry Festival, Collaboration with
Mark Robinson, The Smeltery, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern
Art, Middlesbrough
13th April 2018 - European Poetry Festival, Collaboration with Jon
Ståle Ritland, The Anthony Burgess Centre, Manchester
7th April 2018 - European Poetry Festival, Collaboration with Erik
Lindner, RichMix, London
22nd March 2018 - Poem Brut, Kingston University
14th December 2017 - Electric Kool-Aid Cabaret, Middlesbrough
22nd September 2017 - Oxford University
28th September 2017 - Exeter Poetry Festival, with Kei Miller,
Exeter Community Centre, Exeter
15th September - 16th September 2017, Performance - Space Rebel
Princess, IncludFEST, Durham
3rd September 2017 - Collaboration with EliSophie Andrée for TThe
Enemies Project Sweden ‘Fiender’ at Smockadolls Litteratursalong,
Poeten på Hörnet, Malmö, Sweden
9th July 2017 - Collaboration with SJ Fowler for Ledbury Poetry
Festival, Ledbury
2nd June 2017 - 5th June 2017, Poetry International, Rotterdam
31st May 2017 - 2nd June 2017, Felix International Poetry
Festival, Antwerp
17th May 2017 - A Pint of Science - Spacecraft: Writing in Another
Dimension (Talk), Middlesbrough
16th May 2017 - Albion Beatnik with Jodie Hollander and Ben
Parker, Oxford
9th May 2017 - The Northern Poetry Symposium - Poetry in the
Digital Age (Discussion) with Peter Hebden (Bloodaxe), Mark Byers,
Ian Johnson (Newcastle University Archives)
25th April 2017 - CB1 Poetry, Cambridge
6th May 2017 - European Poetry Night, Collaboration with Endre
Ruset, RichMix, London
2nd March 2017 - Fire River Poets, Taunton
11th February 2017 - Collaboration with Chloe Spicer, North West
Enemies, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
28th January 2017 - RichMix, with Anna Axfors for The Enemies
Project Sweden ‘Fiender’, London
27th January 2017 - TOAST Poetry Showcase with Ali Lewis, Sarah
Fletcher, Robin Vaughn Williams, Cecilia Knapp, Sophie Fenella and
Jack Underwood, Euston, London
27th January 2017 - Panel Discussion, Apps and Extras, and Authors
in Publishing, Inpress Festival, Free Word Centre, Farringdon,
London
16th - 21st January 2017 - Poet in Residence at Guildford High
School, Guildford
13th January 2017 - Collaboration with David Spittle, North West
Enemies, York City Screen, York
1st December 2016 - Dove Cottage Poets, Wordsworth Trust,
Grasmere
22nd November 2016 - 10TAL International Poetry Festival, The
Enemies Project Sweden ‘Fiender’ Stockholm, Sweden
20th November 2016 - Paterson - Poems for the film Paterson -
Clapham Picturehouse, London
16th September 2016 - Bradford on Avon Poetry Festival
6th September - 9th September 2016 - Bjornsonfestivalen, Bergen,
Norway
20th May 2016 - Launch of ‘Moonrise’ by Ella Chappell
10th May 2016 - The The The - Reading with Chrissy Williams, Alex
MacDonald and Eric Langley, The Nines, Peckham
6th May 2016 - Dragon School, Oxford
3rd May 2016 - Beyond Words, Gipsy Hill Tavern, London
4th April 2016 - Oxford Literary Festival, with Claire Trévien and
Sarah Hesketh, chaired by Niall Munro
2nd April 2016 - PEN International in support of the poet Maung
Saung Kha, RichMix, London
31st March 2016 - Presenting new work on Erwin Schrödinger for
Kakania at the Austrian Cultural Forum
23rd March 2016 - Electric Kool-Aid Cabaret of the Spoken Word
with Kalle Niinikangas and Riina Katajavuori
20th March - 23rd March 2016 - Famagusta Poetry Days, Northern
Cyprus with Endre Ruset, Ataol Behramoğlu, Bjørn Tomren, Barbara
Pogačnik, Josep Rodriguez and Beste Sakallı
6th March 2016 - Meet the Artist with Sophie Gainsley - St
Andrews, Scotland
5th March 2016 - Anthology of Age Launch, J & G Innes Bookshop
- St Andrews, Scotland
5th March 2016 - Homolinguistic Translation Workshop - Public
Library, Church Square, St Andrews
4th March 2016 - Poets’ Breakfast with Jim Carruth, Darran
Anderson, Matthew Griffiths and Kevin Mclean
2nd March - 6th March 2016 - StAnza Poetry Festival, St Andrews,
Scotland
7th January 2016 - Verse Matters, Sheffield
4th - 6th December 2015 - Interlese, Saxonia-Anhalt, Germany
27th November 2015 - Word Club with Helen Mort and Kim Moore,
Leeds
26th November - Reading with Emma Jones, Oxford Brookes University
Poetry Centre, Headington
17th - 20th November 2015 - Ars Poetica, Bratislava, Slovakia
5th November 2015 - ‘Control Room’ National Videogame Arcade, Game
City, Nottingham
6th October 2015 - Launch for The Emma Press Anthology of Age
28th September 2015 - Listen Softly London with Daniel Carpenter,
Ella Chappell and S. William Thomas
14th August 2015 - Wokingham Library
5th August 2015 - Bags of Books Bookshop, Lewes
31st July 2015 - Croatia ‘Enemies’ in collaboration with Kirsten
Irving, London
2nd July 2015 - Hackney Yard Theatre
25th June 2015 - Open Arts Café with Sophie Gainsley
23rd June 2015 - Launch ‘Falling Out of the Sky: Poems about Myths
and Legends’ - The Emma Press
17th June 2015 - A World Without Words - The Hardy Tree Gallery
with Lotje Sodderland, SJ Fowler and Thomas Duggan
12th June 2015 - ‘My Birthday Party’ Tripspace, London
2nd June 2015 - ‘Such People’ - Poems after Shakespeare’s Tempest,
London
20th May 2015 - Paris Lit Up, Verge, Shoreditch, London
6th May 2015 - Apiary Studios - A World Without Words
24th April 2015 - Goldsmiths Library, World Book Night, 0500hrs,
shortly before sunrise
23rd April 2015 - World Book Night, Ipswich Library
12th - 15th March 2015 - Versopolis, Littfest, Umeå, Sweden
3rd December 2014 - Rewiring History, Other Countries Launch, Star
and Kings, London
29th November 2014 - Nature Shuffle, Poetry Café
22nd November 2014 - Interrobang Festival, London
6th November 2014 - Coin Opera 2 Launch, Peckham, London
25th October 2014 - Camarade Poetry Festival, Rich Mix, London
Collaboration with Kirsten Irving
21st October 2014 - Metamorphic Rock, LDNY Festival, Modern Poets
on the Chelsea Hotel, Redchurch Street, London
2nd October 2014 - National Poetry Day, Oxford (The Forum, Oxford
Brookes University)
27th September 2014 - Versification Shuffle, Poetry Café,
London
23rd September 2014 - Ipswich Library
16th September 2014 - Pop Up Poetry, Bar des Arts, Guildford
20th - 27th August 2014 - Struga Poetry Evenings Poetry Festival,
Macedonia
7th - 10th August 2014 - Beacon Arts Festival, Skipton,
Yorkshire
26th July 2014 - ‘Auld Enemies’ with Kirsten Irving, Ross
Sutherland, nick-e melville, Colin Herd, Ryan Van Winkle, S J
Fowler, Emily Berry, John Clegg, Tom Chivers, Roddy Lumsden, Nick
Murray, Eley Williams, Vahni Capildeo, Jeremy Noel-Tod and Daisy
Lafarge and more, RichMix, London
18th July 2014 - The Poets’ Café, Reading
17th July 2014 - Reading at the The Carousel Family Reading
Series, The City Pride, London - with Sophia Blackwell, Ian
Cartland, John Clegg, Roddy Lumsden, Sarah Howe and Mark Waldron.
7th June 2014 - ‘Brideshead Requizeted’ Stoke Newington Literary
Festival, London with Helen Zaltzman and Bruno Vincent
6th June 2014 - ‘Reads Like a Seven’ at Stoke Newington Literary
Festival, London with Craig ‘The Rage’ McClellan and Ste Curran
29th May 2014 - ‘On Fatherhood’ Anthology Launch, London
25th May 2014 - DIY Cultures, Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London with
Jennifer Wong and Kirsten Irving
8th May 2014 - Cheltenham Poetry Festival, The Muffin Man
3rd May 2014 - Common People, Clapham Common, London with Anne
Cooper
21st March 2014 - Bridges of Struga Award, Macedonian Embassy in
Paris, France
7th February 2014 - Camden Poetry Series, Trinity United Reform
Church, 1 Buck St, Camden Town with Poets from Malika’s Poetry
Kitchen
1st February 2014 - Beatnik Albion Bookstore, Oxford with Holly
Corfield Carr
20th January 2014 - Troubador, 263-267 Old Brompton Road with
Malika Booker, Fathieh Saudi, Dominic Bury, Susannah Hart,
Patricia Debney and Sharon Morris with music from Bernadette Reed
& Ian Salmon
13th January 2014 - Pamphlet Launch - 7.30pm, Poetry Café, 22
Betterton Street with John Barron and Aoife Mannix
13th December 2013 - The Wheatsheaf, 25 Rathbone Place, W1T 1JB
with Jennifer Wong, Kim Campanello, Vahni Capildeo, Mohan Rana,
Tiffany Anne Tondut, and Matt Bryden
21st September 2013 at Clapham Bandstand with Malika’s Poetry
Kitchen
27th July 2013 - Reading at the Poetry Café’s Poetry Shuffle with
Philip Nanton, Abigail Parry, Paul McGrane, Lucy Hamilton, Róisín
Tierney, and Norbert Hirschhorn
24th June 2013 - Talking Rhythm! with AF Harrold - The Amersham
Arms - New Cross
9th June 2013 - Things We Like - Stoke Newington Literary
Festival
23rd May 2013 - Let’s Play Wearing Our Imaginary Goggles with
Jennifer Wong, Tim Wells & Kim Campanello
Rebecca Wait & Matt Rudd
15th May 2013 - Speakeasy at Drink, Shop & Do, Kings Cross
with Naomi Wood,
19th April 2013 - Astronaut Issue 2 Launch - Betsey Trotwood,
Farringdon
15th April 2013 - The Author Lounge - The London Book Fair
with Hannah Lowe and Jude Cowan
Sunday 24th March 2013 - Torriano Meeting House, London introduced
by Pauline Sewards,
22nd March 2013 - Elbow Room Reading at InSpiral in Camden Town
with Ella Chappell and Zelda Chappel
Tuesday 5th March 2013 - Totterdown Writers’ Club, Bristol
Trinity United Reform Church, London
1st February 2013 - with Poets from Malika’s Poetry Kitchen -
Camden Poetry Series
16th August 2012 - Literary Deathmatch London with Nicci Cloke,
Tupelo Hassman and Kerry Hudson
31st July 2011 - Big Apple Issue Poetry Digest launch with Simon
Barraclough and Tom Chivers