RECENT READINGS
- April 1st 2010 at The Poetry Cafe under the auspices of Tall Lighthouse’s reading series, with others including Tall Lighthouse poet Sarah Howe
- June 24th 2009, British Library for the inaugural Michael Marks Pamphlet Award, at which all the shortlisted poets read from their pamphlets, before Elizabeth Burns was announced as the winner. Readings available to listen to on the BL website
- Troubadour Coffee House Poetry Prize Reading, December 1st 2008
- Reading at Lancaster University with Geraldine Green, Wednesday June 18th Details
- Thunder & Bones: launch of Mark Ward’s collection Thunder Alley and preview of Bone Song
Tuesday May 27th 2008, at The Dale Lodge Hotel, Grasmere. Soundclips on
The Wordsworth Trust website
- Wordsworth Trust ‘Spots of Poetry’ outdoor summer series, 2008, with Adam O’Riordan, Mark Ward and Andrew Forster (ongoing throughout the summer, see Wordsworth Trust wesbite for details)
- Lancaster University, May 10th 2008, alongside Lancastrian poets Jan Petersen and Carol Coates
- Queen Mary College, University of London, October 4th 2007
alongside East End poets Kit Wright, Shamin Azad and Tim Wells Organised by Poet in the City for National Poetry Day.
- Bluebell Bookshop, Penrith, Cumbria, 10/8/07
With Geraldine Green, Graham Mort, Nick Pemberton, Mike Smith, Owain Lewis
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- I Have Found a Song from Enitharmon – the final result of the ACE project commemorating the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, 1807, featuring work from 11 commissioned poets, including Patience Agbabi, Hugo Williams and Helen Dunmore, and the work of 5 artists, including Paula Rego and Hew Locke.
- The Rialto, issue 65, ‘Accident’
- Thunder Valley – an anthology of art and poetry (Nº2 Productions, Grasmere, November 2007),
Poetry – ‘Grasmere, 5pm’, ‘Imitation of Keats’, ‘Imitation of Christopher Smart’
Art – hellholewe’erin(heart, hole, no head) , ‘ceci n’est pas une boisson de terre’
- Rubarb, Eclairs, and other Aphrodisiacs – an anthology of art and poetry in association with the Nº2 Gallery (Nº2 Productions, Grasmere, June 2007), ‘Hazlitt’, ‘Song for Tweedies’
- Bedford Square 2 – an anthology of new writing from Royal Holloway’s Creative Writing Programme, 2005/6. Available from all good book stores, Amazon etc. from January 25th 2007.
- The Deliquent, Nov 2006 ‘london, autumn’
- Orbis 135, Spring 2006 ‘Passing’
- The Eildon Tree , Summer 2005, ‘Hollow Days’
- Nottingham Evening Post, May 2004 ‘The Sangreal’
- Open Mouse (Poetry Scotland’s online tributary), 2004, ‘Conservation’, ‘Hope’
- Unpublished , March 2004, ‘Advice to an Extra’
- Poetic License, March 2004 ‘Blood Moon Watching’, ‘Songbird’