BEEN AND GONE
Oct 11th Out of Many with Colin Grant and Sarah Collins, Ilkley Literature Festival, Leeds Playhouse
Sept 25th Chelping 10, The Leeds Library
Sept 22nd South London Poetry Festival
Sept 21st Outspoken Masterclass, Southbank Centre
July - 5th - 8th Hausach Literary Festival, Germany
June 22nd, Windrush Day, Alexandra Palace
June 15th, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
May 22nd Kahoon Performances, Dalston https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kahoon-performances-iii-tickets-61859912664
May 17th Reading with Katrina Naomi for the launch of Typhoon Etiquette, Poetry Cafe
March 22nd Foundling Museum, Fragments of Home
March 21st Tongue Fu, Rich Mix
6th Feb, Poetry Cafe, with National Poetry Competition Poets
31st Launch of The Neighbourhood, Keats House, with Fran Lock and Anthony Anaxagorou, 7pm
23rd Jan Dash Arts, Songs of the Migrant Worker, 7pm, Rich Mix
22nd Jan Poetry at the Print Room with Richard Scott
Dec 4th Where do we fit in? Black and Asian British History on the Curriculum, Senate House, London, 6pm
November 21st Poets on Their Craft: The Difficult Second Collection, Senate House, 5pm
October 14th, Windrush Women with Valerie Bloom at Ikley Literature Festival, 3.15 St Margaret’s Hall
October 4th, National Poetry Day 5 - 6.30, Queen Elizabeth Foyer, Southbank Centre
21st September, Soho Poetry Nights
BEEN AND GONE
30th July, “Emily Speaks” with Melanie Abrams and Bidisha, Bronte Parsonage
25th June, Windrush Women, British Library
17th June, Windrush Day, Keats House
10th April London Book Fair, 4pm
17th February, Verve Poetry Festival
14th February, Valentine’s Night at Keats House with Richard Scott and Liz Berry
25th January Keats House Residency Launch with Michael Rosen, 7.30 Keats House, Hampstead, London
November 17th Magma Poetry Launch (The Deaf Issue), London Review of Books Shop
November 5th, Celebrating Mimi Khalvati, Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, 3pm, Aldeburgh
been and gone
October 15th Wasifiri New Writing Prize Reading, Queen Mary University
October 5th - 8th Druskininkai International Poetry Festival, Lithuania
July 27th Launch of Swimmers
July 22nd, Poem-a-thon, Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden
18th March, Institute of English Studies, London (details tbc)
25th Feb, Poets and Players, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
11th Feb, Speaky Spokey, Marlbourough Theatre, Brighton
28th February, Camarade, Rich Mix, Bethnal Green
27th January, An Evening of Chinese Identity Poetry, Goodenough College, WC1
8th December, Tongue Fu, Rich Mix
November 9th, Kingston Writing School, Kingston University 7pm
October 9th, Ikley Literature Festival
October 6th, Chill Pill, The Albany, Deptford
July 6th, Launch of Chan, The Yorkshire Grey, Kings Cross 7pm
June 17th “City on Fire” with others, Dugdale Centre, Enfield
June 7th, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
June 6th, Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London
May 21st, Caribbean Literature Day, British Library
May 17th, London Metropolitan Archives
May 3rd, Liverpool Museum
April 15th, City on Fire, Dugdale Theatre, Enfield, 7pm
March 24th, “From Yallahs Bay, Jamaica to Ilford, Essex – memory, migration and place in Long Time, No See”, University of East London 5pm
2015
September 26th, Poetry Book Fair, Square Pig and Pen, London 7pm
September 19th Speaky Spokey, Exeter Street Hall, Brighton
June 25th, Mickey Smith Tribute, Black Cultural Archives, Brixton
June 17th 2015 Ouse Muse, Bedford
May 31st 2015 Keats House Festival, Keats House, London 2 - 4
May 29th, Born Free at Lime Wharf, Hackey
May 13th, The Poetry Inquisition, Small White Elelphant, Peckham Rye, 7pm
April 28th “Out-Spoken”, The Forge, Camden 7pm
April 24th 2015 Wenlock 2015 Poetry Festival, Shropshire, main reading with Kei Miller and Luke Kennard
April 18th Panel Discussion on the Windrush Legacy, part of the Southbank, Changing Britain Festival, 5pm Southbank Centre
April 2nd, “Fakery” reading and discussion at the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, 7pm
March 13th 2015 New Next Generation Conference with Ian Duhug and Patience Agababi 6 - 7pm, Institute of English Studies, London
March 2nd NCLA 2015 Next Generation reading with Alan Gillis, and guests Jake Campbell and Bill Herbert, Newcastle University
November 29th 2014 , Black Cultural Archives. Reading and Discussion with Mike Phillips 3pm, BCA, Windrush Square, Brixton
November 22nd 2014, Second Light Reading with Alison Brackenbury, Jane Duran and others, 7pm Art Workers’ Guide, Queen’s Square, W1
November 4th, Launch of Ormonde, Brixton East, 6.30 - 8.30
October 17th - 20th, Teesside International Poetry Biennale
August 14th Poems at the Apple Tree, with my “Generating Poems” students plus Richard Price and Anna Selby, 7pm onwards
May 10th, Poetry in the Crypt, with Rebecca Goss and Alan Murray, 7pm, Islington, London
April 23rd, Poetry In The House, Lauderdale House, Highgate, London
April 6th, with Anna Selby, Torriano Meeting House, London
March 6th, Stanza Poetry Festival, St Andrews, 11.30am, The Town Hall, Queen’s Gardens
Feb 7th, Launch of “Keep the Faith” by Tim Wells, 7.30pm The Betsey Trotwood
3rd November, Phoenix Arts Club with Richard Price and other Carcanet Poets
21st October, The Troubadour, London with others
19th October, Lancaster Literary Festival, Lancaster
10th October, Brighton Jubilee Library, with Colin Grant
5th October, Essex Poetry Festival
30th September, Forward Prize Reading, Rough Trade, Brick Lane
27th September, James Berry Benefit, The Tabernacle, Notting Hill
September 5th, Poetry School Launch, Tea House Theatre, Vauxhall
August 15th, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, with Isobel Dixon, Andrew Phillip, Rob MacKenzie and Richard Price
August 14th, The Africa Centre, Covent Garden
July 29th, Talking Rhythm, The Amersham Arms, New Cross with Richard Scott
July 25th, The Bear, Camberwell New Road with Daljit Nagra, Liz Berry and others
June 23rd, Trashed Organ, Live Theatre, Newcastle
May 8th, Poetry Trust Reading with Holly Hopkins, Katrina Naomi and Helen Mort, Bush Theatre, London
May 2nd Speaky Spokey, Brighton
