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
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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