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
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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
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2020
22 January, Point of Honour, KCL Chapel, London
15 May, with Philip Gross and dancer Liza Wedgwood, Julia and Hans Rausing Building, Malmesbury