FORTHCOMING EVENTS 2024

2nd March STROUD Black Dog Films & Stuart Butler Present… Poetry Fundraiser for Black Dog Way documentary feature film on homelessness in Gloucestershire, Prince Albert, Stroud

9th - 10th March WORCESTER Performance at Therapeutic Landscapes: ritual, folklore and wellbeing, Art House / University of Worcestershire

13th March CIRENCESTER panel event Should the Park Be Paywalled? A Public Meeting About Cirencester Park organised by Right to Roam, 6pm - 7.30pm

17th March - 15th December STROUD Human=Nature: Entanglements, writers’ workshops through the seasons — Dialect

17th March CIRENCESTER A Fayre for All: contesting the pay-walling of Cirencester Park and celebrating hundreds of years of community culture on the land, 11am - 3.30pm

18th - 20th April CAMBRIDGE. DIRT Imaginarium, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

2nd May STROUD NEOANCIENTS SUBCULTURE FESTIVAL Neoancient Poetry: Invocations with Adam Horovitz, Chris Cundy, Sean Roe, Rattle & Brash, 8pm, £8.

3rd May MIDDLESBOROUGH. Guest Reader Of Cabbages and Kings, A Celebration of Poetry with Book Launches and Live Music featuring Harry Man, JLM Morton, Bob Beagrie, Flamenco Guitar by Mark Boden & an immersive soundscape by Project Lono. 7.30pm. £4 on door.

11th May STROUD. Poetry workshop and readings, Sladebank Woods all afternoon

23rd May ONLINE Guest Reader ‘Spotlight’ at Tees Women Poets, 6.30pm - 8pm. FREE! Tickets here.

23rd May STROUD. Reading at Black Severn Angel: Pete Hoida Paintings, Museum in the Park, 8pm, FREE!

31st May ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH for Red Handed with Broken Sleep Books, online, details tbc

2nd June ONLINE ‘Crafty Crows’ headline reading, Gloucestershire Poetry Society, online 7pm - 9pm, plus OPEN MIC!

6th June STROUD. Poetry Reading, Museum in the Park, Stroud

15th June Poetry STROUD. Reading, St Luke’s Center, Stroud

20th June SLAD. RED HANDED book launch! The Woolpack, Slad, 7pm. Poetry, music, good times.

11th - 12th July Ecopoetics and Environmental Artivism: A Transdisciplinary Conference Keynote speech. London Arts Based Research Centre. Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. London

24th July BRISTOL. Headline set. Satellite of Love, aboard the John Sebastian Lightship, on the Harbour at Bathurst Basin, Bristol. Doors 7pm.

24th September. BRIGHTON. Reading. Pighog Poetry Night. The Pipeline, Little East Street, BN1 1HT.

Previous events

11th September Re-Enchanting the Land, course start date (to December)

11th September Guest at ‘Writers in the Library’ - reading and discussion, Cirencester Library, 1pm

12th September - Get Your Words Out! terms starts - online monthly writers workshops (to December)

17th - 23rd September Writing as Ritual Retreat at The Mill, France. Contact The Mill for more details and pricing

22nd September - 1st October Poetry installation at ‘Between Sky and Earth’ Periscope Arts x SVA, Chapels of Rest, Bisley Rd Cemetery

5th October Wonky Animals Poetry launch with Candlestick Press (online) 7.30pm.

14th October ‘Rising from the Ruins’ Reading Gloucestershire Poetry Festival, with Martha Sprackland, Kate Potts, Ronnie McGrath & Alun Hughes, 12.30pm - 2.30pm

20th - 22nd October Writing the Family retreat at Hawkwood College, nr. Stroud. With Madeleine Bunting

10th November Glos Mythos performance at Stroud Book Festival with Emma Kernahan and specially composed music by Mara Simpson

15th November Guest poet at Rattle and Brash residency with Mara Simpson, Bethany Ley, Jools Owen and Immi.

17th November 7pm Activist Alphabet poetry evening with Adam Horovitz & Dominic James + open mic, Museum in the Park, Stroud

30th November 6.30pm Poetry Society, London

8th December 7.30pm New Bohemians Christmas Party, deepspaceworks Art Space, Cheltenham

10th December 5pm Two Bedford Street with Georgia Raphael, Emma Kernahan & Simon McCorry on cello, Stroud