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​Upcoming events and readings

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
An
thology 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


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Sunday 18th October 2020
Anthology launch on zoom
​Bloody Amazing

123 taboo-busting poems
in aid of period poverty charities

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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)





Friday 28th February 2020
Seaford Litfest, UK

reading with Janet Sutherland at The Crypt, Seaford












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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'



Alex Josephy