events

Upcoming events

2024

Friday 8th March Red Door Poets reading at the Arundel Literary Festival. Poetry workshop with Mary Mulholland and Katie Griffiths book here

Sunday 25th February Red Door Poets Katie Griffiths, Chris Hardy and Gillie Robic will be reading with guests 6pm tickets on eventbrite

Sunday 4th February Opening the Door to… I will be interviewing Rebecca Goss for Red Door Poets 6pm tickets on eventbrite

2023

Tuesday 28th November Red Door Poets at the Milton Keynes LitFest - I will be reading with Chris Hardy, Mary Mulholland and our guests Helen Ivory, Paul Stephenson and Fiona Larkin 7.30pm tickets available here

Sunday 29th October Opening the Door to… Mary Mulholland will be interviewing Glyn Maxwell for Red Door Poets 6pm tickets on eventbrite

Sunday 24th September Red Door Poets Katie Griffiths and Gillie Robic will be reading with guests 6pm tickets on eventbrite

Sunday July 23rd Opening the Door to… Katie Griffiths will be interviewing Julia Webb for Red Door Poets 6pm tickets on eventbrite

Sunday June 25th Red Door Poets I will be reading with Chris Hardy, Mary Mulholland and our guests Dave Wakely, Gareth Writer-Davies and Clare Shaw tickets on eventbrite

Sunday April 30th Red Door Poets Mary Mulholland, Katie Griffiths and Gillie Robic will be reading with guests tickets on eventbrite

Sunday February 26th Opening the Door to… I will be interviewing Sarala Estruch for Red Door Poets 6pm tickets on eventbrite

Sunday January 29th Red Door Poets Mary Mulholland, Katie Griffiths and Gillie Robic will be reading with guests tickets on eventbrite

2022

December 14th Lodestone Poets at the Milton Keynes Lit Fest - I will be reading with Sarala Estruch, Dave Wakely and our guests Gita Ralleigh, Mark Pajak and Victoria Adukwei Bulley https://www.mklitfest.org/lodestone-poets-7

November 30th I will be reading with Red Door Poets for the launch of our anthology Thresholds (Clayhanger Press) at The Harrison, 28 Harrison St, London WC1H 8JF. 7pm. Doors open from 6pm. Zoom link also available.

October 11th I will be reading at the 2022 Live Canon Anthology Launch and Prizegiving 7.30pm tickets on eventbrite

July 31st Red Door Poets I will be reading with Gillie Robic, Elizabeth Horsley and our guests Sarah Westcott, Kate Miller and Tamsin Hopkins tickets on eventbrite

July 25th I will be reading at the launch of Finished Creatures #6 - The Apollo Room at The Crown Tavern, 43 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1 0EG at 7pm

June 6th I will be reading at the launch of Lighthouse Journal #24 at 7.30pm tickets & more information

May 29th Interview for Bloomsbury Radio with Victoria Onofrei at 6pm

March 20th Red Door Poets I will be reading with Chris Hardy, Elizabeth Horsley and our guests Michelle Penn, Richie McCaffrey and Jill Abram 6pm tickets on eventbrite

March 16th Lodestone Reunited at the Milton Keynes Lit Fest - I will be reading with Sarala Estruch, Dave Wakely and our guests Rebecca Goss, Ella Frears and Roy McFarlane find out more

2021

September 26th Red Door Poets I will be reading with Mary Mulholland, Gillie Robic and our guests Gail McConnell, Roy McFarlane and Jane Burn tickets on eventbrite

2020

December 13th I will be reading at the Finished Creatures issues 3&4 celebration on zoom 5-6.30pm

2019

December 2nd I will be reading at Coffee House Poetry at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London. 8pm (Poets reading on over the rainbow)

October 21st I will be reading at Coffee House Poetry at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London. 8pm (october revelations with Richard Scott, Rebeca Perry, Hannah Sullivan and Lisa Kelly)

June 12th I will be reading at the Bedford Park Festival Poetry Evening 2019 7.30pm (poetry places with Imtiaz Dharker)

June 10th I will be reading at Coffee House Poetry at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London. 8pm (born in the usa! with Dan O’Brien, Kathryn Maris and Mark Halliday)

May 24th Lodestone Poets #5 at Waterstones, Tottenham Court Rd, London W1T at 6.30pm. I will be reading with our guests Rebecca Goss, Jane Yeh and Richard Scott, as well as celebrating the inaugural issue of Finished Creatures #1

April 29th I will be reading at the Finished Creatures Launch Party - The Apollo Room at The Crown Tavern, 43 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1 0EG at 7pm

February 27th Lodestone Poets #4 at Waterstones, Tottenham Court Rd, London W1T at 6.30pm. We will be welcoming our guests Aviva Dautch, Will Harris, Lisa Kiew and Sarah Westcott to read with Dave Wakely.

2018

November 26th Lodestone Poets #3 at Waterstones, Tottenham Court Rd, London W1T at 7 pm.

I will be reading with our guests Elizabeth Sennit Clough, Gail McConnell, Romalyn Ante and Raymond Antrobus.

November 12th I will be reading at Coffee House Poetry at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London. 8pm (the voyage out with Anne-Marie Fyfe and Cahal Dallat)

May 28th I will be reading at Coffee House Poetry at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London. 8pm (first things first Mary Jean Chan, Claudine Toutoungi, Elena Cay and Amy Key)

May 23rd Lodestone Poets #2 at The Poetry Café, 22 Betterton St, London, WC2H at 7pm. We will be welcoming guests Roy McFarlane, Justin Hopper, Ella Frears and Dzifa Benson to read with Sarala Estruch.

March 5th I will be reading at Coffee House Poetry at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London, 8pm (Poets reading on mirror, mirror)

February 15th Lodestone Poets #1 at Waterstones, Tottenham Court Rd 6.30pm. Sarala Estruch, Dave Wakely and I will be reading with guests Jacqueline Saphra, Glyn Maxwell, Tamar Yoseloff, Mary Jean Chan, Caroline Davies, Mina Aidoo and Steve Kendall for our special launch of Lodestone Poets.

February 5th I will be reading at Coffee House Poetry at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London, 8pm (what we should have said with Inua Ellams, Anne-Marie Fyfe, Richard Douglas-Pennant and Stuart Silver)

2017

December 10th I will be reading at Coffee House Poetry at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London, 8pm (Poets reading on the theme no snowflakes)

October 16th I will be reading at Coffee House Poetry at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London, 8pm (twenty-firsts with Jo Shapcott, Maura Dooley, Michael Laskey and Mimi Khalvati)

July 28th I will be reading at City Lit Talks Back at Waterstones, Tottenham Court Rd, London

January 27th I will be reading at City Lit Talks Back at Waterstones, Tottenham Court Rd, London