June 25th at the Poetry Cafe in London as part of the Shuffle, details here … http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=119173176528&ref=ts … and August 7th during Malmesbury Carnival in Wiltshire, details here … http://www.malmesburycarnival.co.uk/ … and September 12th in a San Francisco pottery and September 21st in a Middlesex boys’ school, details who knows where.
Hannah & the Monk now available in paperback. A lovely slim volume she is too.
A triple-gatefold concept-reading of poets performing new work inspired by the music of Pink Floyd. It will take place under the massive stoney gaze of Battersea Power Station, upstairs at The Duchess pub. Readers (to date) include: Simon Barraclough, Julia Bird, Patick Brandon, Jude Cowan, Claire Crowther, Isobel Dixon, Katy Evans-Bush, Dean K. Farrow, Luke Heeley, Amy Key, Roddy Lumsden, Lorraine Mariner, Chris McCabe, Jon Morrison, Helen Mort, Dave Palmer, Heather Phillipson & a few more to be added.
£3 Entance, The Duchess pub, 101 Battersea Park Road. Thurs 23rd July, 7pm onwards.
I’m reading at The Monopoly Project – twenty five poets, many of them London born and bred, reading newly commissioned poems based on the properties and tokens of the London Monopoly board. I’ve got the Scottie Dog.
Thursday 2nd July upstairs at The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, between Bishopsgate and Aldgate (from 7.30; £5)
Poets are Angela Brodie / Luke Heeley / Tim Wells / Siobhan Campbell / Eloise Stonborough / Declan Ryan / Amanda Barokh / Amy Key / Derek Adams / Alan Buckley / Camilla Nelson / Peter Ebsworth / Tim Cumming / Charlotte Runcie / Adham Smart / Emily Berry / Cath Drake / Sophie Richmond / Ashna Sarkar / Martina Thomson / Katrina Naomi / Roddy Lumsden plus two to be confirmed.
I’m reading at ‘Ride the Word VI’, Weds 18th February, 7.30 for 7.45pm at Holborn Library. Me and Vincent de Souza, Elizabeth Baines, Katy Evans-Bush and Jay Merill.
Katy is a fellow Salt poet. I’m going to read on of hers, and vice versa.
32-38 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8PA
*… When I think all hope is gone / When I walk along High Holborn / I think of you with nothing on.’ (‘Celia Celia’ by Adrian Mitchell)
I’m reading at Utter! on 10th February. Utter Heartbreak, this one is, which is nicely seasonal in advance of Valentine’s Day. 7.30 at the Green Note Club, 106 Camden Parkway, London NW1, more details here … http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102538500230
I shall read sad, sad love poems … but probably slip in a cheery little something to lift the mood at the end. Tears in the beer, followed by a stripy cocktail with a plastic monkey on the side of the glass. Poetic equivalent of.
Tuesday 9th December
7.30pm
Green Note Club, 106 Camden Parkway NW1 7AN
£3 before 7.30 / £5 after
(Me and all the other finalists from this year’s ‘Utter’ Ajar Mic
competition. I could win £100! That’d pay nicely for some booze to
take to my brother’s for Christmas. No votes from my chums = no prize
= one bottle of cooking sherry and some own brand orange squash. Think
on …)
Special Guest Star – Polarbear. Pretty much my favourite spoken word
performer … myspace.com/polarbearspoken
Friday 12th December
6.30 – 9.30
Readings at 7.30ish and 9.30ish
The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HX
Poetry & Short Story readings from me, Jane Holland, Sue Hubbard and
Mark Waldron at the Salt Publishing Christmas Beano.
I think I might be ring-mastering this one too. I certainly have a new
red dress for the occasion …
Me cheesing for the camera at the reading
Well, near as. I was born in Malmesbury, home town of the actual Hannah and the real Monk. I grew up though in Tetbury – five miles, a whole county and a Civil War feud away from Malmesbury – and I shall be reading in the lovely new independent bookshop there on Wednesday November 12th at 7pm. The Yellow Lighted Bookshop, 21 Church St, Tetbury, Gloucestershire. If you buy your Christmas presents in independent bookshops you are rewarded in heaven, and that is a true fact.
As part of the London South Bank Centre’s Festival of Food, I’ll be reading food poems with Roddy Lumsden, Tim Wells, Roisin Tierney, Simon Barraclough and Isobel Dixon in a tent by the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 20th September between 12.15ish and 1.45ish. There will be 40+ Slow Food stalls in the Festival - from rare-breed meats, specialist cheeses, Middle-Eastern mezze and real ale to all-natural candy floss and organic hot chocolate shots, free-range hog roast, slow burgers and hot dogs, native oysters, game pies and spicy Indian delights. Bunny delish, as my ex-flatmate’s ex-girlfriend would have said …
More details here http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/calendar?action=production&production=59f
I’m in the about-to-be published Shuffle anthology with a new poem called ‘This Does Me For Snow’ which is about … settling, I think. I’ll give it a whirl at the launch for the book which is on Saturday 27th September at the Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden, London, 7.30pm. Fellow anthologees are Ahren Warner, Camellia Stafford, Tim Wells, Kate Miller, Orlanda Marsden, Roddy Lumsden, Kate Kilalea, Luke Heeley, Amy Key, Diana Pooley, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Heather Phillipson, Michael McKimm, Imogen Robertson. More details here http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=24784768990
Another reading at The Betsey Trotwood pub … Unspeakably Toothsome – an evening of food poems. Five poets, hosted by Roddy Lumsden and the luminous Annie Freud.
I shall think of a couple of my foody poems to read – maybe the animal vegetable one, maybe the bad boy dinner date one, maybe the one about body sushi I haven’t written yet – and a couple by other poets.
The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Road, at 7.30pm, Friday 5th September
