2025
Artist and musician Linda Benton has compiled an anthology to celebrate the oaks and other trees in and around Didcot – a town that is rapidly expanding with new estates on all sides. The book was sponsored by the Poets’ Trail project which is funded by a legacy left by local poet Roger Phipps. I read my poem at the launch on 31st May at the wonderful Cornerstone Arts Centre.
2024
With other poets Katie Meehan, John Froy, Robin Thomas, Susan Utting and Claire Dyer I read at the Old Fire Station Gallery, Henley, in June as part of a Two Rivers Press event.
2023
I was hoping to give a reading in Lisbon in June as part of the conference ‘(Dis)Locations: The shifting thematics of home’. Instead I gave my workshop and discussion online.
2022
With Tony Burke and John O’Brien, I designed and performed in an evening of poetry and prose for the Wessex Week festival held in October in Malmesbury.
2021
My new full collection, This Thing of Blood & Love, was published by Two Rivers Press in the spring.
Days of Wonder is a poetry collection created in collaboration with artist Rebecca Swainston during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic: for more information visit http://hippocrates-poetry.org/poems-to-live-for-live-2/6-october-2021-poems-to.html
I read my poem that won the 2020 SciPo competition in a special SciPo event on the afternoon of 12 March, called ‘Patterning Thought‘. Find out more about SciPo.
I was delighted to do a reading with Josephine Balmer as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, on 27 March: you can read details here.
You can get a taste of Jo’s wonderful work here.
You can listen to or read some of my work here:
https://torch.ox.ac.uk/article/winning-entries-for-scipo-poetry-competition-the-science-of-the-seas
https://axonjournal.com.au/issue-vol-10-no-2-dec-2020/creative-frailty
Readings include:
22 January, King’s College Chapel, London (celebration of Portuguese poets)
13 February, St Peter’s College, Oxford (reading from Point of Honour)
23 June, with Philip Gross – Ledbury Poetry Salon online (reading from A Part of the Main)
30 July – Artlyst/Poetry Society event online (competition prizewinners)
3 September – SciPo event online (competition prizewinners)
2019
3 October, with Philip Gross, St Nicholas Cafe Bar, Shrewsbury
12 October, with Philip Gross, Friends’ Meeting House, Oxford
24 October, Portuguese Embassy, London: event to celebrate Point of Honour
9 November, with Claire Dyer and Susan Utting: Lolita Paints Her Toenails, Poetry in Aldeburgh, Aldeburgh (4.00 pm, Peter Pears Gallery) https://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/saturday-programme
27 November, with Philip Gross, Cardiff University
2020
22 January, Point of Honour, KCL Chapel, London
15 May, with Philip Gross and dancer Liza Wedgwood, Julia and Hans Rausing Building, Malmesbury