Upcoming events 2024

15th September. TETBURY. In conversation with Dai George ‘How to Think Like a Poet – The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them,’ 1pm Tetbury Book Festival. Tickets here.

22nd September. SLADEBANK WOODS Human=Nature Workshop 10.30am - 1.30pm More info here.

24th September. BRIGHTON. Reading. Pighog Poetry Night. with Bernadette Cremin & Stephen Bone. The Pipeline, Little East Street, BN1 1HT.

1st October. ONLINE Level Up! Poetry crit group at Dialect begins. Info and booking here.

12th October. GLOUCESTER. Reading. On Collaboration, Dialect Press x DIRT event for Gloucester Poetry Festival, The Folk, Gloucester, 1pm.

12th October. CARDIFF. Reading. Ambient Receiver Magazine Launch. Dyddiau Du.

24th October LONDON. Reading with Mara Simpson at Morocco Bound, SE1 3HB, 7pm. £11.50.

9th November. STROUD BOOK FESTIVAL Poetry Party, 8pm, with Emily Barker, Harry Man, Caleb Parkin, Bob Beagrie and Lalah Simone Springer.

16th November STROUD. The Thingness of Things: finding meaning in the everyday. In-person poetry workshop. Details and booking here.

18th November STROUD. Poetry & Spoken Word at the Crown & Sceptre. Featured reading with Ronnie McGrath. 8pm Entry free + open mic slots available - sign up on the night!

29th November STROUD. Reading with Mara Simpson at The Long Table, 8pm.

Events 2025

19th January STROUD. Chapel Poets, Rodborough Tabernacle, 2pm.

15th March ST. ANDREWS Stanza Poetry Festival DIRT poetry walk 3.30pm, reading of ‘Chapel’ with Alice Willitts and a new DIRT collaboration tba.

10th May CHELTENHAM. Cheltenham Poetry Festival

6th - 8th June. ABERYSTWYTH. Aberystwyth Poetry Festival.

Past events

11th September Re-Enchanting the Land, course start date (to December)

11th September Guest at ‘Writers in the Library’ - reading and discussion, Cirencester Library, 1pm

12th September - Get Your Words Out! terms starts - online monthly writers workshops (to December)

17th - 23rd September Writing as Ritual Retreat at The Mill, France. Contact The Mill for more details and pricing

22nd September - 1st October Poetry installation at ‘Between Sky and Earth’ Periscope Arts x SVA, Chapels of Rest, Bisley Rd Cemetery

5th October Wonky Animals Poetry launch with Candlestick Press (online) 7.30pm.

14th October ‘Rising from the Ruins’ Reading Gloucestershire Poetry Festival, with Martha Sprackland, Kate Potts, Ronnie McGrath & Alun Hughes, 12.30pm - 2.30pm

20th - 22nd October Writing the Family retreat at Hawkwood College, nr. Stroud. With Madeleine Bunting

10th November Glos Mythos performance at Stroud Book Festival with Emma Kernahan and specially composed music by Mara Simpson

15th November Guest poet at Rattle and Brash residency with Mara Simpson, Bethany Ley, Jools Owen and Immi.

17th November 7pm Activist Alphabet poetry evening with Adam Horovitz & Dominic James + open mic, Museum in the Park, Stroud

30th November 6.30pm Poetry Society, London

8th December 7.30pm New Bohemians Christmas Party, deepspaceworks Art Space, Cheltenham

10th December 5pm Two Bedford Street with Georgia Raphael, Emma Kernahan & Simon McCorry on cello, Stroud

2nd March STROUD Black Dog Films & Stuart Butler Present… Poetry Fundraiser for Black Dog Way documentary feature film on homelessness in Gloucestershire, Prince Albert, Stroud

9th - 10th March WORCESTER Performance at Therapeutic Landscapes: ritual, folklore and wellbeing, Art House / University of Worcestershire

13th March CIRENCESTER panel event Should the Park Be Paywalled? A Public Meeting About Cirencester Park organised by Right to Roam, 6pm - 7.30pm

17th March - 15th December STROUD Human=Nature: Entanglements, writers’ workshops through the seasons — Dialect

17th March CIRENCESTER A Fayre for All: contesting the pay-walling of Cirencester Park and celebrating hundreds of years of community culture on the land, 11am - 3.30pm

18th - 20th April CAMBRIDGE. DIRT Imaginarium, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

2nd May STROUD NEOANCIENTS SUBCULTURE FESTIVAL Neoancient Poetry: Invocations with Adam Horovitz, Chris Cundy, Sean Roe, Rattle & Brash, 8pm, £8.

3rd May MIDDLESBOROUGH. Guest Reader Of Cabbages and Kings, A Celebration of Poetry with Book Launches and Live Music featuring Harry Man, JLM Morton, Bob Beagrie, Flamenco Guitar by Mark Boden & an immersive soundscape by Project Lono. 7.30pm. £4 on door.

11th May STROUD. Poetry workshop and readings, Sladebank Woods all afternoon

23rd May ONLINE Guest Reader ‘Spotlight’ at Tees Women Poets, 6.30pm - 8pm. FREE! Tickets here.

23rd May STROUD. Reading at Black Severn Angel: Pete Hoida Paintings, Museum in the Park, 8pm, FREE!

30th May ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH for my first collection RED HANDED with Broken Sleep Books’ Aaron Kent & Stuart McPherson, MacGillivray, Kat Dixon, Katy Mack, Héloïse de Satgé, The Arkonauts. Online. starts 8pm.

2nd June ONLINE ‘Crafty Crows’ headline reading, Gloucestershire Poetry Society, online 7pm - 9pm, plus OPEN MIC!

4th June ONLINE Marking World Environment Day with poets JLM Morton and Ella Duffy, London Arts-Based Research Centre, 7pm - 9pm

6th June STROUD. Poetry Reading, Museum in the Park, Stroud

15th June Poetry STROUD. Reading, St Luke’s Center, Stroud

20th June SLAD. RED HANDED book launch! The Woolpack, Slad, 7pm. Poetry, music, good times (by invitation).

21st June RED HEARTH FESTIVAL, STROUD poetry reading in the woods, 7.30pm.

23rd June SLADEBANK WOODS Human=Nature Workshop 10.30am - 1.30pm More info here.

11th - 12th July Ecopoetics and Environmental Artivism: A Transdisciplinary Conference Keynote speech. London Arts Based Research Centre. Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. London

24th July BRISTOL. Headline set. Satellite of Love, aboard the John Sebastian Lightship, on the Harbour at Bathurst Basin, Bristol. Doors 7pm.