Throughout July and August I’ll be touring around the south coast, reading from my new poetry pamphlet, The Other Shore, coming out soon from Eyewear Press.
On the 10th July I’m reading at the Priory Park Festival, so do come along and enjoy music, food and drink, poetry, stories and lots of fun.
- On the 17th July I’ll be launching the pamphlet at my event at the Chi Inn as part of the Chichester Arts Festival. The pamphlet is a book of poems about the voices the dead use to speak with us. Tickets available here.
- On the 19th July, I join the Poetry Bike Tour and head from Eastbourne all the way to Firle: come meet myself and poets such as Paul Deaton, Hugh Greasley, Stella Bahin and John Davies along the way.
- Then on 21st July I’ll be reading some of the poems I wrote while poet-in-residence at Bunhill Fields as part of a celebration of the poetry of William Blake, along with actor Michael Jayston and local poets Stephanie Norgate, Alan Morrison, James Simpson and Barry Smith at the Weald and Downland Museum.
- On 23rd July I’ll be reading in Petersfield at the inaugural South Downs Poetry Festival. They’ll be cake, workshops, books, and more poets that you can shake a stick at!
Poetry Bike Tour
This week I took part in the first ever Poetry Bike Tour in the South Downs. It was organised by the South Downs Poetry Festival, and features a group of poets and musicians cycling through Sussex and stopping off at pubs, cafes, bookshops, town halls and churches along the way to give readings and performances. As […]