Events

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2024 Pandemic Access Statement

I love few things more than talking about books, all things bookish, and lots of things thematically linked to my writing, in any format.

Knowing that covid is airborne, is still here, and is still a serious threat to health, I will be continuing to wear a filtering facemask at all time indoors, and in close-contact outdoor settings.

It would be helpful to see basic infection measures in place for indoor events, such as decent ventilation, air filtration (eg. HEPA), and mask wearing.

In-person events should where possible have remote access options, whether live streaming or recorded (audio or visual). Where video, it should be captioned. Where audio, a transcript should be made available.

This is an act of solidarity with all those who are excluded from in-person events, including those who are shielding/ housebound / carers/ geographically isolated – to try and promote a more equitable arts ecosystem in which no one is left behind – as well as an essential measure to protect my own health. Chronically ill and disabled people must not be excluded from arts programming as the pandemic continues with no mitigations.

It is important to me that everyone’s health is protected – no one knows how covid is going to affect them – no one should have to risk their health for a book event. I want everyone involved in an event to be able to enjoy it safely and without avoidable risk, whether that is speakers, audience, booksellers, organisers, or hospitality staff. Everyone’s health is of equal importance.

I am also calling on nondisabled people to ask questions about remote access and covid safety at events. These issues affect everyone, not just those who know they are more vulnerable to serious complications of a covid infection. Remote access is beneficial to many people, including anyone who cannot travel easily because of financial or health reasons, caring responsibilities, work commitments, geographical distance and concern over environmental impact (which we should all be concerned about!).

If you’re a bookshop or small events organiser and you’d like to do an event with me but aren’t sure how to meet these conditions, get in touch – we can talk it through together.

For more information on providing equal access to events see:
Inklusion Guide
ADCI guides to working with Disabled and Chronically Ill writers and audiences
Spread the Word: Being Hybrid Guide

Past Events

  • 17th July, West Cork Literary Festival: The Company of Owls, 10am. Book here.
  • 28th May: The Company of Owls at The Burn How Garden Hotel Book Club, Windermere. 7-8pm. Just turn up at the Burn How Hotel – no need to book!
  • 14th May 2025 – The Company Of Owls Zoom Webinar, Huddersfield Literature Festival, ONLINE, 7-8pm.
  • 24th April: (Online) Negotiating Access Needs with Polly Atkin – ADCI Network Meeting – The Society of Authors (Members Only), 2-3pm
  • 29th March 2025 – Disabled Poets Prize Winner Announcement, Deptford Literature Festival, Jamie Hale, founder and judge of the Disabled Poets Prize and fellow judges Polly Atkin and Khairani Barokka announce the winners and shortlisted poets of this year’s Prize. ONLINE, free, 12-1pm. Book here.
  • 28th March 2025 – “‘No Prisoner Am I on This Couch. My Mind Is Free to Roam’: Mobility and Chronic Illness in Dorothy Wordsworth and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff” with Annie Rutherford and Anneke Anneke Lubkowitz at Walking Women Conference, University of Hamburg
  • 24th March 2025 – “Promoting Chronicity’: on illness narratives, ongoingness and unrecovery’, Centre For Ethics and Health Humanities, University of Southern Mississippi, 4pm CT / 9pm GMT, ONLINE, details here.
  • 12th March 2025: Workshop – Conversations Through Birds, Words by the Water Festival, Keswick
  • 18th February 2025 – Masterclass: Non-Fiction, Taking up residence again: Writing in, through and of the Body, Arvon at Home.
  • 7th January 2025 – Words to Light the Dark, Walk/Listen/Create, Online event.
  • 22nd November 2024 – The Company of Owls at Westwood Books, Sedbergh, with Katie Hale. 7.30pm. In-person and recorded. Book here.
  • 18th November 2024 – guest speaker on Kathryn Aalto’s ‘Nature Poetry and Ecopoetics’ online course. Information here.
  • 15th November 2024 – Workshop: ‘Saving up tiny joys: Finding openings for joy in a chronic creative life’, Chronically ill Artists Network, 11am – 1pm. Online. Book here.
  • 13th November 2024 – The Company of Owls Dark Skies Talk, Dark Skies Festival, Dark Skies Cumbria, 7pm. Online. Book here.
  • 12th November 2024 – The Company of Owls at Cakes and Ale, Carlisle, 7.30pm. In-Person. Book here.
  • 9th November 2024 – chairing the Q&A with Amy Liptrot after the screening of The Outrun at Aerial Festival. In-person. Tickets here.
  • 6th November 2024 – ‘The Company of Owls’ LAUNCH at The Portobello Bookshop, in conversation with Caro Clarke. 7pm. In-person and online. Book here.
  • 20th October 2024 – ‘The Company of Owls’: Polly Atkin in conversation with Zoe Lambert, Litfest Autumn Weekend, 2pm. In-person and online. Book here.
  • 9th October 2024 – hosting ‘In her Element: in conversation with Eileen Pun’, a Sam Read event at the Wordsworth Grasmere Learning Space. In-person and recorded. 7pm. Book here.
  • 7th October 2024 – ‘From towers of joy to sickroom gardens: revisiting Dorothy Wordsworth’s dwelling-places of the mind’, Pioneers of Local Thinking, 5pm. Online. Book here.
  • 26th September 2024, TWOOMPH! open mic ft. Polly Atkin. Special call-out for work on the theme of BODIES, DIS/ABILITIES & NATURE, 18:30 – 20:00 BST. Online. Book here.
  • 10th September 2024, How to Live in a Creative Body with poet and non fiction writer Polly Atkin, 7-8.30pm BST. Online workshop. Book here.
  • 15th August 2024, Polly Atkin: Interior Lives, Exterior Worlds – in conversation with Caro Clarke, EIBF. 4pm BST. Online only event. Book here.
  • 25th July 2024. Wild Women Writers Salon, Salon 9: The Body Speaks: Belonging and the Art of Naming, with Alyssa Graybeal, Polly Atkin, and Louise Kenward. Hosted by Victoria Bennett. 19:00 – 20:30 BST. Online. Book here.
  • 20th July 2024. Poetry workshop:  Is it the sea you hear in me?: Speaking with Trees (Dr Polly Atkin) The Literary Arboretum, Wordsworth Grasmere. 12 – 1.30pm BST. Free. Book here.
  • 13th July 2024. Northern Bookshelf Live: In Conversation with Polly Atkin for Disability Pride Month, City Library Newcastle, 1pm – 2pm BST Book here.
  • 29th June 2024. Northern Bookshelf Live: Karen Powell, Naomi Kelsey and Polly Atkin at Central Library & Archives in Halifax, 1.30pm BST Book here.
  • 5th June 2024. Words by The Water, Keswick. Polly Atkin: Beyond the Nature Cure: On Not Getting Better. Theatre by the Lake (Studio), 2.30pm BST. Book here.
  • 29th May 2024. Hay Festival. Polly Atkin talks to Bethany Handle On Nature and Not Getting Better. Meadow Stage, 5.30pm BST. Book here.
  • 16th May 2024. Brighton Festival. Noreen Masud & Polly Atkin: Writing a Life. 7.30pm BST. Book here.
  • 4th May 2024, Aberystwyth Poetry Festival (4th- 6th May), Aberystwyth Town Library, 3.00pm. Information and line up here.
  • 11th March 2024. Diversity & Inclusion In Books – Have We Done Enough?
    Speakers: Sana Rasoul, Kurdish author Abiola Bello, Author, Publisher and Co-Founder of The Diverse Book Awards Natasha Bowen, Writer and teacher Dr. Polly Atkin, Writer Davina Ajana, Founder and Creative Director, Sadé Magazine. Chaired by Helen Lewis, founder of Literally PR and co-founder of The Diverse Book Awards.
    I’m speaking via a video link.
    https://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/whats-on/conferences/writers-summit.html
  • 14th February 2024, Some of Us Just Fall, Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Lancaster University Events, Online, 6pm. Tickets here.
  • 1st February 2024, Seren First Thursday with Kim Moore, Online, 7.30pm GMT
  • Saturday 27th January, 2024, Weekend Write-along with guest speaker Polly Atkin. Online, 10am – 3pm.
  • 23rd January 2024. Adroit Issue 48 Launch, Online. 8pm EST.
  • 11th January 2024. ‘Disability and climate: In conversation with Polly Atkin’, University of Exeter. Online. 2pm GMT.
  • 18th November 2023: SOUJF at Kendal Mountain Book Festival. 6.15pm.
  • 23rd October 2023. Some Of Us Just Fall at Five Leaves Books, Nottingham. 7pm.
  • 7th October 2023. Litfest Lancaster, with Kim Moore. 3pm.
  • 23rd September 2023. Moffat Eagle Festival. Book Corner @ Moffat Library, 1pm. Free.
  • 22nd September 2023, Launch of Sarah Doyle’s ‘(m)othersongs’, online. Details tbc.
  • 15th August 2023. Talk at Lighthouse Books as part of Book Fringe: The ALT Edition. Free. Online and in-person in Edinburgh. 1pm BST.
  • 15th August 2023. Workshop – ‘Who am I in this poem?’. 3 of 3 for CRIPtic Arts. Online. 6.30pm – 8.30pm BST.
  • 12th July 2023, BOOK LAUNCH for Some of Us Just Fall, The Portobello Bookshop, Edinburgh, 7pm BST. In-person in Portobello and streamed online. Range of ticket options.
  • 11th July 2023. Workshop – ‘Finding poetry all around us’. 2 of 3 for CRIPtic Arts. Online. 6.30pm – 8.30pm BST.
  • 5th July 2023, I’m in conversation with Rowan Hisayo Buchanan about her new novel The Sleepwatcher. This is an online event with Sam Read Bookseller.
  • 21st June 2023. I’m chairing an online event for Sam Read Bookseller on The Language of Trees, in discussion with Katie Holten, Sumana Roy and Kerri ní Dochartaigh.
  • 13th June 2023. Workshop – ‘Playing around with what a poem is’. 1 of 3 for CRIPtic Arts. Online. 6.30pm – 8.30pm BST.
  • Sheaf Poetry Festival 2023: May 21st – 29th 2023.
    Sheaf 2023 was a Hybrid Festival. Wednesday May 17th, workshop ‘Noticing small pockets of joy: writing through crises’, Online, 6pm BST. Saturday May 27th, reading: ‘This Land is Our Land: exploring access to the outdoors through lenses of disability, race, migration and land rights’. Poetry from Polly Atkin, L Kiew and Jonathan Davidson, and music from Lucy & Hazel. In-person at Theatre Deli Sheffield and streaming online, 8pm BST.
  • StAnza 2023: March 9-12 2023. StAnza 2023 was a hybrid festival, with a mix of online only, streamed and in-person events. l hosted an online open mic after the launch on Thursday 9th March, at 9.30pm GMT. I also read with Khairani Barokka on Saturday 11th March, at 10am GMT. This was an in-person event at the Byre Theatre which was also livestreamed.
  • Every Monday in November, 7-9pm: Spelt Nature Writing School. Join me for online writing workshops on ‘Immersing in The Elements’. November 7th, 14th, 21st 28th.
  • Thursday November 3rd, Poetry In Aldeburgh. 1.30pm – Online workshop: Precarious Property: Writing in, through and of the Body.
    7pm – Reading: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON DISABILITY: FOUR POETS will read from their ground-breaking, prize-winning work. ​ Polly Atkin, Karl Knights, Daniel Sluman, Hannah Hodgson.
  • Tuesday October 25th, Royal Society of Literature, Vital Discussions On Demand: Fiona Sampson and Polly Atkin: Radicals and Romantics. Pre-recorded online conversation event.
  • Tuesday October 25th, Weather, Words, and the Body panel, A THOUSAND WORDS FOR WEATHER. A discussion featuring authors Jean McNeil, Polly Atkin, JR Carpenter and Amanda Thomson, chaired by Jessica J. Lee. Recording online after event. Book here.
  • Sunday 23rd October, Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, 2-4pm, Digital Poetry Workshop with Hannah Hodgson and Polly Atkin – ‘My body is the only home I’ll ever have’: a workshop on poetry and disability.
  • Friday 21st October, Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, 5pm, Writing and the (Dis)Abled body – Reading with Hannah Hodgson, Betty Doyle and Polly Atkin, chaired by Katie Hale. Online and recorded and available on digital festival player afterwards.
  • Wednesday 12th October, 4.30pm, Literary and Visual Landscapes research group, ‘Pining Earth: on weather, landscape and bodies in pain’, Hybrid: Book Here.
  • Saturday September 17th, Gathering at Wild Ken Hill, a one day nature festival. In-Person only. Recorded.
  • Tuesday August 16th, 8.30pm BST, Wordsworth Summer Conference. In-person only for conference attendees.
  • Judging the Spelt Magazine Poetry Competition.
  • Wednesday July 20th, 7pm, BST, Poetry & Lockdown: Reading and discussion with Daniel Sluman, Mab Jones, Hannah Hodgson and Polly Atkin. Online. Free.
  • Monday July 18th, 7.30pm BST, WomenTalkPlace talk: Place, Belonging and Disability with Polly Atkin, Online. Free.
  • Friday July 8th, 6pm BST, Gardens of the Bodymind: a Moving Mountains Nature Writing Workshop, Online. Free.
  • Tuesday July 5th, 6pm BST, The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth with Polly Atkin, Ledbury Poetry Festival 2022, Online.
  • Tuesday July 5th, 11am BST, introducing Society of Authors ADCI week event Industry Insider – Disability, Access and Publishing, a panel discussion chaired by Cat Mitchell, with Ellie Drewy, Khairani Barokka and The Catchpole Agency. Online, with BSL interpretation.
  • Monday July 4th, 6pm BST, Polly Atkin and Hannah Hodgson: Reading and conversation on illness, health and death, chaired by Jill Abram, Ledbury Poetry Festival 2022, Online.
  • Thursday June 30th, 7pm BST, Reading, Q&A and Open Mic, hosted by Wendy Pratt, poet and editor of Spelt Magazine. Online.
  • May 6th, 12noon – 2pm – Online Workshop on writing write through, about and against ecological crisis, Newcastle Poetry Festival – ‘To speak the impossible hope of the firefly: trying to notice joy in a time of ecological crisis’. Workshop booking here.
  • May 5th, 13.30-14.30pm – Climate Emergency panel, Emergency Poetry Summit, Newcastle Poetry Festival. With Jason Allen-Paisant and Sylvia Legris, chaired by Linda France. In-person and online tickets here.
  • April 19th, Seren Showcase, with Hannah Hodgson and Isle Pedler, Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Online – book here.
  • April 12th, 8pm, Online Q&A, Write Like A Grrl, more details tbc.
  • March 31st, 5.30pm, Further Afield 2: Purpose of Place, Conversation event with artist Bella Milroy exploring disability arts practices through a rural lens, LEVEL arts centre, Online – book here.
  • March 22nd, Talk for Vulnerability Studies Network seminar series, University of Leicester. Online, details tbc.
  • March 17th, 7.30pm GMT, Women on Nature at Lancaster Litfest with editor Katherine Norbury, and contributors Sarah Thomas, Karen Lloyd and Polly Atkin. NB: this is an in-person event also streamed on crowdcast – I will be reading remotely.
  • March 10th, 11am GMT, Society of Authors At Home Industry Insider: What Did Zoom Ever Do For Us? Panel discussion with Aki Schilz, Polly Atkin, Roy McFarlane and Daniel Sluman, hosted by Katrina Naomi.
  • February 23rd, 5pm – 6.25pm GMT, Polly Atkin: Writing Place, Belonging and Disability, Research Centre for Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University, Online – Book here.
  • February 24th, 7 – 9pm GMT, Spelt Issue Four Launch, Online.
  • February 2nd, 6pm, Northern Writers Awards: Disability, Writing and Publishing Roadshow, with Dr Pragya Agarwal, Hannah Hodgson, Vik Bennett and Cat Mitchell, chaired by Polly Atkin.
  • January 27th, 7.30-9pm, Recovering Dorothy: Dorothy Wordsworth after the Grasmere Journals, with Dr Polly Atkin and Dr Jo Taylor, hosted by Jeff Cowton, Principal Curator & Head of Learning at Wordsworth Grasmere. Online.
  • January 26th, 1pm, Dorothy Wordsworth 250 Years On – with Polly Atkin and Sarah Corbett, Lancaster University, Department of English Literature & Creative Writing. Online.
  • December 17th, 7.30pm GMT – CELEBRATING DW250: A VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS BIRTHDAY – free, online event. Book here. 
  • December 15th, 7pm GMT – Poetry Book Society Insta-live Poetry Bookclub – with Lila Matsumoto, hosted by PBS selector Anthony Anaxagorou.
  • December 2nd, 5-7pm GMT – CHASE Medical Humanities Network with Daniel Sluman, Polly Atkin, and Dorothy Lehane. Zoom Event. Book here. 
  • November 21st, 7pm GMT – Recovering Dorothy. Kendal Mountain Literature Festival. Online event on Kendal Mountain Player.
  • November 21st, 11am GMT – Open Mountain 2021: Unlocking the Landscape, Kendal Mountain Literature Festival. Free online event. Available afterwards on Kendal Mountain Player.
  • November 4th, 7.30pm – Seren Virtual First Thursday, with Hammad Rind and open mic. Book here. 
  • October 20th 2021, 7pm – Launch of ‘Much With Body’ – on Zoom – with guest readers Hannah Hodgson, Éireann Lorsung and Claudine Toutoungi.
  • October 17th 2021, 3pm – Reading and Discussion: Never the New Normal, with Jen Hadfield, Polly Atkin, Samuel Tongue, Daisy Lafarge, Push the Boat Out Festival.
  • October 9th 2021, 7.30pm – Poetry Double-Bill with Kim Moore, Lancaster Litfest. Online via crowdcast.
  • Hosting ‘Open Mountain: Inclusion and Connection’, showcasing work by Anita Sethi, Kate Davis, and five writers chosen from an open call out, Kendal Mountain Festival, Saturday 17th November 2019, 5.30pm.
  • ‘The New Poetics of Climate Change’: performance, discussion and poetry reading with Matthew Griffiths, Richmond Literature Festival, Saturday 2nd November 2019, 8pm.
  • ‘Northern Powerhouse’, a poetry reading with Kerry Darbishire, Geraldine Green and Katie Hale, Borderlines, Saturday 5th October, 7.30pm.
  • ‘Objectification: writing the world through objects’, a workshop at Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival, Saturday 5th October, 3pm.
  • ‘Imploring the Territory: taking the language for an unwalk’ a performance, q&a and interactive workshop with Vahni Capildeo and Harry Josephine Giles, The Scottish Poetry Library, Wednesday 3rd July, 7.30pm.
  • Rural Writing Institute Reunion: tutor, 22-24th June, Strickley.
  • Waymaking at Buxton Adventure Festival, Tuesday 9th April, 7.30pm.
  • Hosting Karen Lloyd and Beth Pipe talking about writing landscape and nature and their latest books, Lancaster Litfest 2019.
  • Reading with Andrew McMillan, Lancaster Litfest 2019, Saturday 16th March, 3.30pm.
  • Poetry Breakfast at StAnza 2019: ‘Another Place’. Friday 8th March, 10am.
  • Mslexia Pamphlet Prize retrospective at Cornerstone Poetry Festival, February 10th 2019.
  • Keele Hall Reading Series, Senior Common Room, Keele Hall, Keele University, January 28th, 7.30pm.
  • Magma Climate Change Issue reading at CCI, Cambridge, Monday January 21st 2019, 6.30pm. Details and to book a free place. 
  • ‘My time’ reading and exhibition launch at The Mitchell Library, Glasgow, January 10th 2019, 4.30-5.30pm. My Time Mitchell Library launch invite.jpg
  • Reading and Discussion with Creative Writing students at Leicester University, December 8th.
  • Reading with Kim Moore at Bookcase Hebden Bridge, Thursday November 22nd.
  • Reading for the launch of ‘Waymaking’ at Kendal Mountain Literature Festival, Sunday November 18th, 2.30pm.
  • Hosting a reading and discussion for ‘This Place I know’ at Kendal Mountain Literature Festival, Saturday November 17th, 11.30am.
  • Launch of ‘Watch the Birdie’ the new Beautiful Dragons anthology covering the birds on the red list, Leighton Moss RSPB, November 16th.
  • Reading for Magma issue on climate change, Poetry in Aldeburgh, 2.30pm, November 4th.
  • Performing at ‘Deranged Poetesses’ edition on ‘Crones’, October 20th, ARC Stockton.
  • Launch of the new anthology of Cumbrian poetry  at The Wordsworth Trust, November 17th.
  • Launch of ‘Spark’ (Blue Diode Press) at the Scottish Poetry Library, Saturday October 13th.
  • Kendal Poetry Festival: Reading with Kate Davis, Friday Sept 7th, 2pm, Kendal Library.
  • Guest reader at The Garsdale Retreat for ‘Character Portraits: Escaping the Ego’, with course tutor Rhian Edwards, August 8th.
  • Substitute workshop leader at the Rural Writing Institute (Kathryn Alto and James Rebanks), June 30th.
  • National Writing Day workshops at schools throughout Cumbria, and with Shap Writer’s Group at The Wordsworth Trust.
  • Waymaking Anthology Reading at the BMC tent, Keswick Mountain Festival with Kathleen Jones and Judith Brown, Sunday 10th June, 2.30pm.
  • New Walk pamphlet launch at Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham, May 22nd,
    with Alan Jenkins, 7.30pm.
  • Read Regional 2018 Events Keighley Library, Saturday 2nd June, 3pm (Exploring Poetry Workshop at 2pm)Robinson-Gay Art Gallery, Hexham, Wednesday 2nd May, 1pm (Part of Hexham Book Festival)Hebden Bridge Library, Hebden Bridge, Thursday 29 March, 7.30pmCommunity Hub Central, Hartlepool, Thursday 5 April, 5.30pm
  • Wildlines festival: discussion and reading with Zaffar Kunial, hosted by Richard Smyth, at The Leeds Library, March 17th.
  • StAnza : Past and Present Friday 9th March (talking about Jane Cooper); Border Crossing Sunday 11th March (reading my own work).I also co-lead the collective reading of Stairs and Whispers with Georgi Gill, read work by Ahmet Altan at the Scottish PEN event, and roped Matthew Griffiths into being my dance partner to perform my My Time poem at a Meet the Artist event, also featuring the outstanding Scottish Foyle Young Poets winners.
  • Writer-in-residence at Gladstone’s Library, February 2018. Public events:
    Discussion & Poetry Reading February 6th.
    Masterclass February 24th.
  • Anthology launch of It All Radiates Outwards / City Poetry Competition Results at Verve Poetry Festival, February 17th.
  • Guest reader at Poetry Carousel residential, Grange-over-Sands, December 9th 2017.
  • Reading with Elizabeth-Jane Burnett at Kendal Mountain Festival, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Saturday 18th November, 2017, 11.30 am, Brewery Arts Malt Room.
  • Durham Book Festival Rich Seams Northern Poets event, Saturday October 14th, 3.30–5pm, Durham Town Hall:
    Degna Stone, Kim Moore, Malika Booker, Mark Pajak, Polly Atkin , Melissa Lee-Houghton, Pippa Little, Ruby Robinson, Zaffar Kunial, Vidyan Ravinthiran and Seán Hewitt will be introduced by Durham Book Festival Laureate Andrew McMillan.
  • Reading with Claire Askew at Wigtown Book Festival, Saturday September 30th, 12pm, The Print Room.
  • ‘A Perfect Mirror’: Reading and Discussion about Dorothy’s Colour exhibition, by Zoe Benbow and Sarah Corbett, at The Wordsworth Trust, Saturday September 16th, 6-8pm.
  • Reading for Caught by The River at The Good Life Experience, Hawarden Estate, Flintshire, Saturday September 16th, 10am.
  • Rialto Nature Poetry Prize reading at the CCI Cambridge, Thursday June 14th, 2017, 6pm. With Judge Kathleen Jamie, and winners Jemma Borg, Martin Figura, Sophie F Baker and Sue Norton.
  • Seren 2017 Poetry Gala at Hay Festival: Siobhan Campbell, Emily Blewitt, Rhiannon Hooson and Polly Atkin, Monday May 29th, 5.30pm.
  • Little Unsuspected Paradise presents …
    the Grasmere launch of Basic Nest Architecture
    with guest readers Mark Ward (standing in for Jack Nicholls) and Megan Beech
    and amazing music from Jenn Grant and her band, from Nova Scotia. More info here.
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  • Vanguard Readings, The Peckham Pelican, London, Thursday May 18th, 2017.
  • St. Mungo’s Mirrorball, The CCA, Glasgow, Thursday May 4th, 2017.
  • Launch of Basic Nest Architecture, Lancaster Litfest, 1pm, Saturday March 25th 2017.
  • Reading at Vespers alongside JL Williams and Cheryl Follon, The Serenity Cafe, Edinburgh, Tuesday March 14th 2017.
  • Nuts and Bolts Creative Writing Craft Talk on Basic Nest Architecture, University of Strathclyde, January 25th 2017.
  • Reading alongside Sarah Hymas and Carole Coates at Brewery Poets, at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal, May 20th 2016.
  • Guest reader, Poetry in Grasmere, April 13th 2016.
  • Workshop ‘ERASING THE LAKES: writing by un-writing’ for Campus in the City, Lancaster, May 7th 2016.This workshop for all ages took texts about the Lake District and encouraged participants to find their own erasure poems within the text.
  • Reading with Rebecca Tamás and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Landscaping Change, Bath, March 29th 2016.
  • Lancaster Litfest showcase for Beautiful Dragon‘s anthology My Dear Watson: Elemental Poetry, 2pm, Saturday 19th March 2016.
  • Reading at Garrigill village hall in aid of the Cumbria Flood Recovery Appeal, 7.30pm, Sunday February 21st 2016.
  • Launch of My Dear Watson: Elemental Poetry, The Anthony Burgess Centre, Manchester, 5pm, November 27th 2015.
  • Café Writers Prize Reading, Norwich, February 9th 2015.
  • Poetry workshop and reading, University of Ghent/Gent Poëziecentrum, November 17th 2014.
  • Wigtown Book Festival, Poetry Prize Reading, October 4th 2014.
  • Interviewed live on Fylde Community Radio, A Poetry Show, July 12th 2014.
  • Launch of  Wordpool‘s first poetry competition, Blackpool Central Library, July 4th 2014, and award presentation, October 2nd 2014.
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  • Reading with Gregory Leadbetter at St Mary Magdalene Church, Cannington, to participants in the Coleridge Summer Conference, July 28th 2014.
  • Poets and Players Award Reading, John Rylands Library, Manchester, June 21st, 2014.
  • Reading at launch of Heavenly Bodies: an anthology of stellar poems, one for each of the constellations, Judges Lodgings, Lancaster, April 30th 2013.
  • Reading at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal as part of the Quiet Compere tour,  April 26th 2014.
  • Reading at April Poets in Lancaster, April 10th 2014.
  • Reading at Moonlighting II charity event, Lancaster University, with Jenn Ashworth, Zoe Lambert and Eoghan Walls, 5th December 2013.
  • Reading at launch of Holy Detritus exhibition at St. Oswalds, Grasmere, 27th September 2013.
  • Reading at Greenbelt Festival, 26th August 2013.
  • Poem ‘Redwoods’ included in Beneath the Boughs poetry exhibition, Lowther Castle, July – September 2013.
  • Reading for delegates at the 2013 Southey Conference, Robert Southey and Romanticism: The Lake School in Context, 29th July 2013.
  • Featured Poet at Wordsworth Trust/Zeffirelli’s Open Mic, 10th July 2013.
  • BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour – Discussion on the role of Aunts in Literature, with Vona Groarke, 10th May 2013.
  • Shadow Dispatches Launch, with Judy Brown, at The Wordsworth Trust, 20th April 2013.
  • Solstice: 24 hours of poetry from the longest day 2012 launch, Lancaster Judge’s Rooms,  20th March 2013.
  • Hosted reading and Q&A with Jamie McKendrick, Tom Warner and Èireann Lorsung, Nottingham Festival of Words, 16th February 2013.
  • Reading with Paul Farley, Jenn Ashworth and George Green at Moonlighting, Lancaster University, 6th December 2012. In support of The Twins Appeal.
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Reading at the Troubadour

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