Events

13 July : Featured Poet at Winchester Muse

8 May : Featured Poet at Ware Poets

31 Mar : Live Reading at Cherner Books with Christopher Horton, Poppy Cockburn, Jill Abram and Natalie Whittaker

20 Mar: Workshop at Arundel Festival ‘stilling the moment’

25 Jan: Online reading with Red Door Poets and special guest Sam Szanto

6 Jan 2026: Live Reading at CAA with Jennifer Wong, Annie Hayter and Red Door Poets

29 Dec: Online Reading with The Circle Writers. Register here

8-30 Nov: Residency in Finland. Arteles.

28 Oct: Reading with Covent Garden Stanza poets, Broken Sleep authors, Natalie Whittaker and Wendy Allen at the Poetry Café, London. Event hosted by alice hiller. see the event here on alice hiller’s amazing blog.

16 Oct: Featured Poet at Enfield Poets

12 Oct: Star-studded Reading at Turner Contemporary, Margate, to launch this year’s 14 Magazine

4 Oct: Reading at the Poetry Salon, at Museum in the Park, Stroud, alongside Rachel Spence, Philip Rush, Catherine Balaq and others

30 Sept: Featured poet on Spoken Word Paris Online Zoom

28 Sept: Live on Zoom interview with Diane Seuss for Red Door Poets

21 Sept: featured poet at Torriano, alongside Luigi Coppola, as part of Venn Diagrams, hosted by Patrizia Longhitano

18 Sept: Newcastle launch of the elimination game: reading at Blackwells Bookshop, alongside Alex Corrin-Tachibana and Sam Szanto

31 Aug: Reading with Red Door Poets, alongside Gillie Robic, Lesley Sharpe, and our guests, Tim Relf, Wendy French, Jen Feroze on Zoom. register here

8 Aug: Live Launch in London with Richard Skinner, Tessa Foley, Kit Ingram, Tamsin Hopkins at The Devereux

30 July: Online Launch of the elimination game register here

27 July: Zoom interview of Braid Poets alongside Red Door Poet Katie Griffiths

11 July: reading my highly commended poem at Ware Poets Prize-giving

17 June: reading at CAA, Covent Garden, London, with Red Door Poets and special guests, Pascale Petit, Richard Scott and Katrina Naomi

12 June: reading my highly commended poem at AgeUK, Walthamstow

12 May: Reading at The Devereux, London, for the Science & Poetry launch of Motherboard City

2 May: poem featured as part of the Voltaire Theatre/ Pomegranate-London festival at the Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, London

25 April: Live reading at the Devereux, London, with Ken Evans, Emma Simon, Luke Kennard

24 April: Reading (Zoom) with Red Door Poets on Ian Gouge’s Coverstory

30 March: Reading with Red Door Poets on Zoom with Dillon Jaxx, Katie Griffiths, Rishi Dastidar, Tamsin Hopkins and SK Grout

12 March: Reading on Write Out Loud (Zoom) with Audrey Arden-Jones, Gillie Robic and Wendy French

9 February 2025: Reading at Zoom Launch of Gillie and Michel Robic’s Visiting Hours (Clayhanger Press)

28 January 2025: Reading with Red Door Poets, Live at Club for Acts and Actors, London WC2E 9HP, alongside special guests: Simon Maddrell, Robin Houghton and Steve Brayne

11 December: Reading at the Live Canon Christmas Party, on Zoom

27 November: Reading at Zoom Launch of Judith Wozniak’s Making Dolmades in Essex (Vole Press)

6 November: Reading at Magma’s 30th Birthday Celebration launch, at Farsight Collective, WC2H 8DJ

4 October: reading at Winchester Festival, as finalist in this year’s competition

30 September: Reading at Zoom launch of Thin Places & Sacred Spaces anthology, ed. Sarah Law

September: Residency in Arteles, Finland

28 July: Reading with Red Door Poets Live on Zoom, with Emma Simon, Gillie Robic, Matthew Calley, Katie Griffiths and Rosie Jackson

31 May: Reading with Red Door Poets LIVE at the CAA, Covent Garden

24 May: Reading at Hippocrates Symposium, Aviles, Spain

11 March: Creation Theatre/ Live Canon Reading Live in Oxford, alongside Arji Manuelpillai, Deborah Finding, Josephine Concoran, Barbara Barnes and Lucy Ingrams, The United Redormed Church.

8 March: Reading with Red Door Poets Chris Hardy, Tom Cunliffe, Katie Griffiths and Gillie Robic, LIVE at Arundel Lit Fest.

8 March: Workshop alongside Katie Griffiths: Generating and Editing Poems, part of Arundel Lit Fest

29 November: Zoom Reading with Red Door Poets Chris Hardy, Lesley Sharpe, and our special guests, Helen Ivory, Fiona Larkin and Paul Stephenson as part of the Milton Keynes Lit Fest

29 October: Live on Zoom Interview with Glyn Maxwell, part of the Red Door Poets Opening the Door series. Watch it here

Recordings of readings

‘When you were sewing with your perfect vision, what did you stitch?’ ( a winner in the 2020 Poetry News members’ competition. Listen here

‘The art of daydreaming’ (a winner in the 2020 Poetry News members’ competition. Listen here)

Launch of What the sheep taught me, published by Live Canon, The Bedford, Balham, 2022. Watch it here