Readings

Please contact me if you’d like to book me to do a reading. I love performing my work and have read at:

• book festivals – such as Hay Festival, Durham Book Festival and Birmingham Literature Festival
• bookshops – including Waterstone’s in Birmingham and the Big Green Bookshop, Wood Green, London
• libraries – among them the old Birmingham Library and the new Library of Birmingham
• literature and art centres – such as the Free Word centre and the Art Workers’ Guild, both in London

FORTHCOMING READINGS AND EVENTS:

Thursday 4 April 2019 at 7.30pm – Shrewsbury Poetry

Please contact me if you’d like to book me to do a reading.

PAST READINGS AND EVENTS:

Thursday May 25 2017 at 7pm – Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales – Realistic Utopias: imagining a world changed by climate – What can the worlds of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and drama contribute to how we understand and respond to climate change? Do humans respond to stories more than facts? The work stems from a project called Weatherfronts: climate change and the stories we tell. The pieces referenced here were commissioned by TippingPoint, Free Word and partners 2014-2016. Weatherfronts brought together writers and leading climate change experts to inspire new writing that would encourage people to act to help our environment. Book tickets (priced £7.30).

Sunday 30 April 2017 at 2pm –Llandeilo Literature Festival, Wales – Climate Change and the Stories We Tell – We hear many stories about climate change from scientists, economists and environmentalists. But what can the worlds of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and drama contribute to how we understand and respond to this complex issue? This event will explore the power of narrative in helping us come to terms with climate change and in formulating a positive response.

A note on the masthead picture: Reading a specially commissioned poem at the The Story Museum, Oxford, May 2014, as part of the 26 Characters exhibition.

Nightingale

Moon Garden

A Wire to Grief