READINGS
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UPCOMING EVENTS​​
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Saturday 28th June 2025, 5.30pm, Guest Poet at Verbalise, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, live tickets £7, online tickets £4.50
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PAST EVENTS
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Saturday 15th March 2025, 5pm, Circle Gallery, Words by the Water Festival, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Reading with Kerry Darbishire, Elizabeth Stott and Ilse Pedler, tickets £8
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Sunday 16th March 2025, 2.30 to 5pm, Lamont Robinson Room, Words by the Water Festival, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Workshop - 'Poetry is a house of many rooms', tickets £20
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Sunday 9th March 2025, 4 to 5pm, Reading with Kerry Darbishire at Maryport Literary Festival, held at the Senhouse Roman Museum, Maryport, day tickets £5
Thursday 28th November 2024, 6.30 to 8.30pm, Poetry Reading and Launch of Words That Walk Through Walls: World poets writing with Ä°lhan Sami Çomak, hosted by Palewell Press and Exiled Writers Ink, free entry
Thursday 24th October 2024, 6.30 to 8pm, Poetry Reading and Open Mic at the Farmer's Arms, Lowick, tickets £5, hosted by Ilse Pedler
Saturday 5th October 2024, 3pm to 4.30pm, Winchester Poetry Festival Competition Prizegiving, Free in-person and online tickets available here.
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Saturday 5th October 2024, 10am to 4pm, Carlisle Poetry Symposium, Tullie House Museum Auditorium, free entry, readings, open mic slots, books for sale
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Thursday 26th September 2024, 7.30pm, Book launch for The Lost Art of Ironing with Kerry Darbishire (River Talk), at Cakes and Ale Cafe, Bookends, Carlisle, Tickets £5 available here.
Wednesday 4th September 2024, 7pm, Online book launch for The Lost Art of Ironing with Margaret Royall and Kerry Darbishire, compered by Lucy Heuschen. Email margaretroyall@icloud.com to register for a free Zoom link.
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Saturday 24th August 2024, 7pm, Book launch for The Lost Art of Ironing at the Maryport Settlement, High Street, Maryport, Tickets £5 available here.
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Thursday 1st August 2024, 7pm, Fire River Poets, Online Open Mic
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Wednesday 5th June 2024, 6pm, Hosting North Cumbria Stanza at Words by the Water, Studio Event, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick
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Sunday 24th March 2024, 5pm, Reading with Poets Out Loud at Kirkgate Lit Fest, Cockermouth, free entry, all welcome.
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Saturday 23rd March 2024, 7pm, Gala Reading at Lancaster Litfest, Histories Map Poems, selected by Hannah Lowe, in-person and online tickets available from Litfest website. The Civic Hall Has Gone.
Wednesday 20th March, 7pm, Arachne Press online launch of Byways anthology, free tickets available here.
Friday 8th March 2024, 7pm to 9pm, reading at the International Women's Day Open Mic, at the Vineyard, Lorne Street, Denton Holme, Carlisle CA2 5DU, hosted by Tina Borgia for the Carlisle International Women's Group.
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Sunday 3rd March 2024, 5.30 to 6.30pm, Tribute Reading in Memory of Caroline Gilfillan, at Maryport Arts and Literature Festival 2024, at the Senhouse Roman Museum, hosted by Kerry Darbishire.
Thursday 29th February 2024, 6 to 8pm, Literary Ghosts in the Gallery, A Poetry Evening at Shipping Brow Gallery, 1 Senhouse Street, Maryport, also featuring Kerry Darbishire, Ilse Pedler, Elizabeth Stott, Jane Moss-Luffrum, Susan Cartwright-Smith, Valerie Moody, Ros Edwards, Craig Davidson and Luke Bateman. Introduced by Grevel Lindop. Tickets available via Eventbrite.
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Friday 23rd February 2024, 7 to 8.30pm, Rawanee Stanza Group, International Night of Poetry at The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London, featuring Kathleen Jones, Margaret Beston, Shaheryar Mirza, Nadir Khan Feroz, Kelly Davis, Sara Davis, Hammad Rind, Muniba Mahmud. Video.
I'm very grateful to Philip Hewitson at Tolivar Productions for filming these two videos at Carlisle Poetry Symposium, at Tullie House, Carlisle, in 2022.
'Senhouse Street', 'Ghost Shops' and 'Walking in the Languedoc'
'Not Waking You' and 'Whaleness'
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Thursday 18th January 2024, 7.30pm, tickets available for my reading with Elizabeth Stott at Cakes and Ale, Bookends, Carlisle.
Many thanks to Andy Hopkins for this lovely mention in his blog.
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Friday 3rd November 2023, 7pm to 10pm, North Cumbria Stanza Reading, featuring Martin Figura, Helen Ivory and Katie Hale with open mic, at The George Hotel, Devonshire St, Penrith CA11 7SU, £3 entry
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Saturday 4th November 2023, 7.30pm, Verbalise, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, featuring Martin Figura and Helen Ivory, with open mic, online (£3.50) or in person (£6)
Saturday 1st July 2023, 2.30pm to 3.30pm, Cockermouth Live, Reading with members of Poets Out Loud, at Wordsworth House, Cockermouth
Sunday 5th March 2023, 4.30pm, Maryport Arts and Literature Festival, Reading with contributors to 'Epona and the Golden Bees' anthology, at the Senhouse Roman Museum, Maryport
Saturday 4th February 2023, 2pm, Hail Sisters of Poetry, Joint reading with Kerry Darbishire and Caroline Gilfillan, at Ulverston Library
Tuesday 25th October 2022, Joint guest feature on Glory Days on Patricia M. Osborne's blog on whitewingsbooks.com
Thursday 15th September 2022, Joint reading with Kerry Darbishire and Ilse Pedler, launching Glory Days and Auscultations poetry pamphlets, at the Outside In Centre Cafe, Kendal
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Friday 15th July 2022, 3.15pm, Joint presentation with Clare Park, launching A Square Foot of Sky at Dartington Ways with Words Festival
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Friday 8th July 2022, 7.30pm, Joint reading with Kerry Darbishire and Martyn Halsall, launching Glory Days and Visible Music poetry pamphlets, at Cakes and Ale Cafe, Carlisle, tickets £5 from Bookends, incl. £2 towards cost of either book
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Thursday 23rd June 2022, 7.30 to 9.30pm, Reading in the 'Open Mic' at Kendal Poetry Festival, The Warehouse, Brewery Arts Centre, tickets £5 from Brewery Arts Centre (online or in person)
Sunday 22nd January 2022, 5pm, Eat the Storms podcast, A Conversation in Poetry special, joint reading with Kerry Darbishire from Glory Days. The podcast also features Rosie Jackson & Dawn Gorman, Oz Hardwick & Amina Alyal, Patricia M Osborne & Maureen Cullen, Eilín de Paor & host and producer Damien B Donnelly. Kerry and I start reading at about 54 minutes in.
Sunday 9th January 2022, 7pm, Launch event for Immersed in Blue by Margaret Royall, I read poems from Glory Days with Kerry Darbishire
Tuesday 21st December 2021, 7pm, Solstice Shorts Festival: Words From the Brink, Arachne Press
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Saturday 27th November, 2pm to 4pm Launch of Magma Poetry magazine, Issue 81, Anthropocene
Edited by Maya Chowdhry, Cheryl Moskowitz and Yvonne Reddick
Thursday 30th September, 7.30pm Borderlines Festival Poetry Open Mic
I read 'Zoom Poetry' which won Second Prize in the competition, judged by Malcolm Carson
Saturday 25th September, 7.30pm A Poem and a Pint, featuring Clare Proctor and Will Harris, Online Event, Open Mic
Saturday 21st August, 11am Carlisle Poetry Symposium,
Tullie House Museum Carlisle, Live Event, Featured Poet
Wednesday 18th August, 7.30pm An Evening with Julia Copus, Wordsworth Grasmere, Online Event, Open Mic
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