Events

    
2026

• Borderings with Tom Pickard, Hindmarsh Hall, Alnmouth (all profits to Newcastle Women's Aid & the West End Women & Girls Centre)

• Nature Writing & Climate Education Panel, English Association Conference, Bloomsbury

• What Are Words Worth 2U2? Gallery North, Northumbria University

• 1b Books, Newcastle

 

2025

• Women Poets’ Webinar, Rebecca Swift Foundation

• Poets on Film, Edinburgh International Book Festival

• Poetry Reading & Talk: Delaine Le Bas ‘+Fabricating My Own Myth’, Newcastle Contemporary Art (NCA)

• Poetry & Landscape Symposium, University of Reading

• The Long Road, exhibition opening, The Museum of English Rural Life

• BBC Radio Berkshire interview with Kirsten O’Brien

• WritersMosaic Reading, Guanda International Library, Ilaria Alpi, Parma, Italy
   

2024

• Blood & Belonging, The British Library

• Poetry Book Society Showcase, Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts

• Chair: An Evening with Jackie Kay, Durham Book Festival

• Guest Reader: Forward Prize Ceremony Readings

• Guest Reader: Arvon Residential with Roy McFarlane & Bethan Roberts

• Guest Reader: Arvon Residential with Jennifer Wong & Romesh Gunesekera

• Exhibit: Moveable Type, What Are Words Worth? Gallery North, Northumbria University

• GRT History Month, The Museum of English Rural Life

• Brighton Book Festival

• Re-Imagining Language Justice Conference: Soundscapes & Activist Practices in Roma
  Languages & Cultures, King's College London

• Gypsy Writers, The Romani Cultural & Arts Company, Newport

• Panel: Invisible pasts, invisible people? Gypsy, Roma & Traveller collections & heritage in British museums, The Museums Association Conference, Glasshouse International

• Butcher’s Dog issue 20 Spring launch, Online

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2023​​​​

• Woodstock Poetry Festival with Damian Le Bas, Oxford

• Butcher’s Dog issue 19 Autumn launch, Online

• Poetry at the Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Libraries

• The Unsung & The Unsettled with Ian Duhig, Leeds Poetry Festival

• Reaching Out, The Traveller Movement, Youth Futures Foundation, London

• Editors on Poetry, The Poetry Book Fair, London

• Butcher’s Dog issue 18 Spring launch, Online

• Breakfast at the Poetry Café: Wild Panel, StAnza

• Jo Clement & Marjorie Lotfi, StAnza

• ‘Codes of Memory‘, collaboration with Riah Knight for RomaTrial, Berlin 

• ‘Listen’, Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures, Galway

• ‘Listen’, Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival, Bavaria

• ‘Listen’, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York

• ‘Listen’, Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism open-air exhibition​
   

2022    ​

• Start the Week, BBC Radio 4

• Writers’ Festival, Leeds Trinity University

• Gypsy Maker 5, Romani Cultural Arts Company, Wales

• Poetry Please with Roger McGough, BBC Radio 4

• Northern Drift with Michael Symmons Roberts, BBC Radio 3, Hebden Bridge

• Carmen: Pre-Performance Talk, Opera Holland Park

• ‘Listen’, Babylon Kino, Berlin

• ‘Listen’, Romani International Film Festival, Berlin

• ‘Listen’, AKE DIKHEA?, Berlin

• Berwick Literary Festival

• Inequality Emergency Panel, Poetry Book Society Emergency Poetry Summit

• The Lubber Fiend, Newcastle

• A Hut A Byens, Bamburgh Bones Project, Heritage Lottery Fund, Bamburgh

• Gypsy Maker 6, Romani Cultural & Arts Company, Wales

• The Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, Hebden Bridge

• ‘Exclusionary Estates: Travellers in the Thomas Bewick Archive’, Sites of Inclusion, Wales

• Keynote: The Romani: Transhistorical Encounters, Kings College London

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2021  

• ​Butcher’s Dog issue 15 Autumn launch, Online

• Creative Keynote: ‘Imagination in the Field: Our Right to Roam’, Earth(ly) Matters Conference, Sheffield Hallam University

• ‘Romani Literature: A Keystone of the New Romanipen’, European Roma Institute for Arts & Culture

• Holocaust Memorial Day, Newcastle City Council & A Living Tradition

• Nature Writing with Zakiya McKenzie, Identity on Tyne & Northumberland National Park 

• Northern Writer's Awards Roadshow, New Writing North

• ‘Existence’, The Second Roma Biennale, Berlin, RomaTrial (read by Riah Knight)

• Wagtail: The Roma Women’s Poetry Anthology Launch (online)

• Butcher’s Dog issue 14 Spring launch, Online

• Poems in the Thípi, Snape Maltings, Britten Pears Arts, Suffolk

• North East Poetry Showcase, Durham Book Festival

• Laurel’s Poetry Night, Laurel’s Theatre, Whitley Bay

• The Shuffle, Poetry Café, Online

• Cosy Night In, Wylam Winter Tales, Great Northumberland

• Radicals in Conversation: The Policing Bill & Institutional Racism, Pluto Press Podcast
   

2020   

• Butcher’s Dog issue 13 Autumn launch, Online

• Whose Heritage? Symposium: A (Multi)Cultural Perspective with David Olusoga

• Culture Matters Anthology Launch: Witches, Warriors, Workers, Newcastle

• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Conference, Newcastle University

• The Stay at Home Literary Festival, Online

• Butcher’s Dog issue 12 Spring launch, Online

• The Stay at Home Literary Festival
   

2019   

• Butcher’s Dog issue 11 Autumn launch, Poetry Café, London.

• Durham Book Festival with Damian Le Bas & John Hewitt

• Poemathon for the Refugees, Newcastle

• FUSION: Interdisciplinary Symposium, Newcastle University

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2018   

• Troubadour International Poetry Competition Prize Ceremony, poem read by Mona Arshi

• Poems After The Blaydon Races, Shipley Art Gallery

• Writers’ Festival, Leeds Trinity & All Saints University

• ‘Birds of Passage: Spotting Travellers in Thomas Bewick’s British Birds’, Literary Birds Conference, Durham Book Festival

• Interdisciplinarity Masterclass, Durham University Centre for 19th-Century Studies, Mining Institute, Newcastle

• Hate Crime Conference: Changing the Culture, Newcastle University
   

2017   

• Butcher’s Dog, issue 10 Autumn launch, Newcastle

• The Poetry School Summer School, Southbank Centre, London

• The Golden Mic, Neverending Books, Yale, Connecticut, USA

• Jackalope with Jacob Polley & Jo Colley, The Bridge Folk Club

• 50th Anniversary Anthology Launch, Leeds Trinity & All Saints

• Creative Practice Completion Symposium, Hospitalfield Arts Centre, Arbroath (AHRC Student Innovation Fund)

• Butcher’s Dog issue 9 Spring launch, The Poetry Café, London 

• ‘Gypsy in the Archive’, Hospitalfield Arts Centre

• ‘Poetry of Witness & Tyneside Refugees’, Shared Futures Conference, Newcastle

• Archival Skills Symposium, Queens University Belfast

• ‘Poetry of Witness: Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Diaspora’, Newcastle Poetry Festival

 

2016  

• The Dead Cannot Write, Podcast Launch, Newcastle University

• Give What You Can: Food Bank Fundraiser, Newcastle University

• Poetry & Print, Great North Museum, International Print Biennale

• Poetry on the River, The Old Low Light, North Shields

• Five Poets Go To Ernest’s with Ontario Laureate, Newcastle

• Briggflatts: A Collaborative Basil Bunting Commemoration, Morden Tower

• The Cold Boat with Carolyn Forché, Newcastle University

• Leeds Trinity & All Saints University Writers’ Festival

• Protest against Crown Street library closure, Darlington

• Poetry Parlour with Cynthia Fuller, Darlington

• Texts & Contexts Conference, Durham University
   

2015   

• Write Around the Toon, Culture Lab, Newcastle

• First Thursday, Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts

• The Lifeboat with Stephen Sexton, Bookfinders, Belfast

• Wordspace, Leeds

• ‘GRT: A Witness in the Archive’, Practices, Perspectives & Possibilities, Newcastle

• Working with Archives, Residential Symposium, The Wordsworth Trust

• Mourning & Morbidity, British Art Research School, York University

• Voices & Books, Newcastle University

• AHRC Northern Bridge DTP Summer School, Great North Museum

2014   

• ‘A New PhD Study’, Bewick Society AGM, Lit & Phil, Newcastle

• Black Light Engine Room, Westgarth, Middlesbrough

• Butcher’s Dog issue 4 launch, Empty Shop, Durham