Upcoming events and readings
Friday 20th October 2023
'Bird in a Wilderness' launch. Poems from the salty, sandy, saucy Hastings Poetry Society Stanza
at White Rock Hotel, 7pm
All proceeds go to the Refugee Buddy Project.
Tuesday 18th July 2023
Sue Wallace-Shaddad's guest reader at Ipswich County Library,
for an evening of poetry, art and discussion
6pm - 7.30
with Sula Rubens and Ian Griffiths
Tuesday 27th June 2023
Pindrop Poets reading at Lumen poetry, Camden, London
Trinity United Reform Church, 1 Buck St, Camden Town, London NW1 8NJ.
Tube: Camden Town
Saturday 10th June 2023
Reading 5-6pm with Greenwich Meanrtime poets
at Bankside Open Spaces Poets' Corner
Sunday 30th April 2023
Delighted to be Gillie Robic's guest poet at Red Door.
Click here to book: Red Door Poets online
Wednesday 22nd February 2023
online laiunch of Again Behold the Stars (book a place or order a copy at Cinnamon Press)
Monday 14th November 2022, 7.30pm
featured poet, with Denise Bundred
at Winchester Muse
THE ARC,
Jewry Street
Winchester
SO23 8SB
01962 398046
Email: enquiries@arcwinchester.org.uk
Sunday 18th September, 12.30-1.30pm
Hastings Book Festival
reading at The Printworks, Hastings
with members of Hastings Stanza group: Steph Gaunt, Brian Docherty, Judith Shaw, Antony Mair
Tuesday 13th September 2022
Reading with 8 fantastic poets at in-words, West Greenwich LIbrary, 146 Greenwich High Road, London SE10 8NN
Graham High, NJ Hynes, Rosie Johnston, Alex Josephy, Lorraine Mariner, Fiona Moore, Jane McLaughlin, Colin Pink and Sarah Westcott
Sat 28th May 2022
Urban Forest reading at Red Cross Gardens, Southwark, as part of Chelsea Fringe festival, with Greenwich Meantime and Southwark poetry stanza groups.
Wed 8th December 2021
I'll be reading my contribution at the online launch of Storm Brain (the Hippocrates Book of the Brain),
published through the generosity of healthy heart charity the Cardiovascular Research Trust.
Link to follow.
Sat 30th October
Seaford Litfest 2021
Reading with Janet Sutherland at the Crypt, Seaford
Thurs 25th March 2021, 7.30
One Year On, in-words reading on zoom
with Jacqueline Saphra reading poems from One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets, and Rosie Johnston, Colin Pink and Rob Walton
Wed 10th February 2021
Hippocrates Press Poems To Live For series
Zoom reading based on 'The Trees Are Down' by Charlotte Mew.
Click here to see and hear the recording!
Sat 14th November, 12.00-13.00
Zoom reading - Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival
Between Places - Britain and Europe
with Sharon Black, Christopher North and Fokkina McDonnell
Wed 4th November 2020
Zoom reading - launch of the Hippocrates Prize Anthology:
The First Ten Years
A collection of tender, scientific, surprising and uplifting poems that explore some of the many connections between poetry and medicine
Anthology now available from Hippocrates Poetry
Sat 25th October 2020
Zoom launch based in Mumbai!
Open Your Eyes
An international poetry and prose anthology on climate change,
Ed. Vinita Agrawal, Hakawal Publishers
Sunday 18th October 2020
Anthology launch on zoom
Bloody Amazing
123 taboo-busting poems
in aid of period poverty charities
Anthology launch on zoom
Bloody Amazing
123 taboo-busting poems
in aid of period poverty charities
Thursday 1st October 2020, 6pm
National Poetry Day!
Reading my poem from 'Poems for a Pandemic'
anthology in aid of NHS charities
Sunday 13th September 2020
Online reading with Wendy French and Audrey Ardern-Jones
to launch Wendy's lovely collection
'Bread Without Butter' (Bara hen fenyn)
Sunday 12th July 2020
Naked Since Faversham
Pindrop Press 2020
my second collection, launched online during the pandemic,
but full of joy!
with Liz Bahs, launching her collection 'Stay Bones'
and Sharon Black (PIndrop editor)
See and hear the reading (with a few Zoom comic effects!) here
Friday 28th February 2020
Seaford Litfest, UK
reading with Janet Sutherland at The Crypt, Seaford
12th October 2019
Festa del Paesaggio, Sant'Angelo in Colle
a poetry reading in an ancient hilltop church
"Tutela, rispetto, ecologia e integrazione per un paesaggio umane"
Readings in English and Italian, with Lisa Annicchiarico and Matilde Albertin
"TUTELA, RISPETTO, ECOLOGIA E INTEGRAZIONE Preadings i9n English and Otaian, rER UN PAESAGGIO UMANO" "TUTELA, RISPETTO, ECNE PER UN PAESAGGIO UMA "TUTELA, RISPETTO, ECOLOGIA E INTONE PER UN PAESAGGIO UMAN
1st September 2019
Festa della Poesia, Salaiola
a poetry festa on the slopes of beautiful Monte Amiata. Tuscany
readings in English and Italian
14th March 2019
A Meeting of Minds
reading at West Greenwich Library with Greenwich Meantime poets
15th February 2019
Joint launch reading with Paul McLoughlin
The Art Workers Guild, London
9th February 2019
6-8pm
Un Sorso di Poesia
A Sip of Poetry
Libreria Becarelli, Siena
20th October 2018
White Roads launch at OCRA, Montalcino, Italy
Readings in English and Italian
18th July 2018
Joint launch reading with Rebecca Bilkau and Susan Castillo
Poetry Cafe
Throughout June 2018
A Compound Eye
bumblebee poem leaflets on show as part of Fifty Bees exhibition
at Richard Jefferies museum, Swindon
17 March 2018
Anthology launch: Noble Dissent
Lancaster Litfest
28 September 2017, 7.30
National Poetry Day reading with Cinnamon writers
West Greenwich Library, London
8 October 2017, 4.30-5.30pm
Swindon Poetry Festival
http://www.richardjefferies.org/poetry-swindon
6 September 2017, 6.30-8pm
Mixed Borders garden residency reading
Kew Gardens, London
30 June 2017, 7.15
Anthology launch: Poetica Botanica
poems inspired by plants in the Physic Garden at Hellens Manor
Ledbury Festival, Ledbury
23 June 2017, 7.30pm
Anthology launch: A Bee's Breakfast
at Brick Lane Bookshop, 166 Brick Lane, London E1 6RU
June 2017
Mixed Borders residency at Markham Square, Chelsea
open afternoon Sundy 18th June, reading 4pm
Monday 23rd January 2017, 7.30 -11pm
Coffee-House Poetry showcase event at The Troubadpour, 263-267 Old Brompton Road, London SW5
Saturday 12th November 2016
Poem-a-Thon in aid of Médecins sans Frontières at Ye Olde Rose and Crown, Walthamstow
Saturday 27th August 2016
Three Beautiful Dragons Go Wild: reading with Rebecca Bilkau and Ron Scowcroft at Made in Greenwich gallery, London
Saturday and Sunday, 18th and 19th June 2016 12.30 both days
Readings of new poems at Rainham Hall, Rainham, Essex as part of Mixed Borders (see The Latest, my blog page, for more details)
Saturday 19th March 2016
Reading with Beautiful Dragons at Lancaster Litfest
Wednesday 16th March 2016
Launch of Other Blackbirds, Cinnamon Press at the Made in Greenwich Gallery, London
Thursday 17th December 2015
Reading with the Writers' Group at the MacMillan Cancer Centre; launch of the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine 2016
Friday 27th November 2015
Launch of the Beautiful Dragons anthology My Dear Watson: The Very Elements in Poetry at the Anthony Burgess Centre, Manchester
Sunday 30th August 2015
McLellan Arts Festival, Isle of Arran
Tuesday 21st July, 7.30pm
Launch of The Emma Press Anthology of Slow Things.
at Rambert Dance Company, London
Tuesday 14th April 2015, 6.30 - 9pm
Florence Writers Poetry Night
St Mark's Church, Florence, Italy
Friday 20th February 2015, 7.30 - 10pm
Lines Across the Water. Poets from London and the Isle of Arran.
An evening of poetry, and a little music, from either side of the water.
Tuesday 27th May 2014, 7.30 - 10pm.
Launch of Scumbles. Poetry from Robert van Dias' poetry seminar.
The Goat Tavern, Mayfair, London.
October 2013
Battered Moons prize-giving at the Swindon Festival of Literature.
Here is a recording of Alex reading 'Marias'