Events

    
2026

• 1b Books, Newcastle.

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2025

• Women Poets' Webinar, Rebecca Swift Foundation.

• Manchester Literature Festival.

• Ilkley Book Festival.

• Durham Book Festival.

• Edinburgh International Book Festival. ​

• Talk: Delaine Le Bas’+Fabricating My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles, 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 at Guanda International Library, Ilaria Alpi, Parma, Italy.
   

2024

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

• An Evening with Jackie Kay, Durham Book Festival, (Chair).

• Forward Prize Ceremony Readings.

• Arvon Residential with Roy McFarlane & Bethan Roberts.

• 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 and Activist Practices in Roma Languages & Cultures', King's College London.

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

• Blood & Belonging at The British Library.

• 'My Place' The Poetry Society Summer Competition (Judge).

• 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 with Sara Berkeley & Dylan Brennan, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Libraries.

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

• 'Invisible pasts, invisible people? Gypsy, Roma, Traveller collections & heritage in British museums', The Museums Association Conference, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead.

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

• GRT History Month, Museum of English Rural Life, Reading.

• Fanning the Flame: Arvon Lumb Bank Residential, with Jennifer Wong & Romesh Gunesekera.

• Editors on Poetry, Northumbria University, Newcastle.

• Breakfast at the Poetry Café: Wild Panel, StAnza.

• Butcher’s Dog issue 18 Spring launch. Online.

• Jo Clement & Marjorie Lotfi, StAnza.
• Writers' Festival, Leeds Trinity University.

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2022    ​

• The Lubber Fiend, Newcastle.

• Gypsy Maker 6, g39 Art Gallery, Cardiff.

• Berwick Literary Festival.

• The Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, Hebden Bridge.

• Butcher’s Dog issue 17 Autumn launch. Online. 

• Start the Week, BBC Radio 4.

• A Hut A Byens, Bamburgh.

• Cheltenham Poetry Festival Online.

• Carmen: Pre-Performance Talk, Opera Holland Park.

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

• Newcastle Poetry Festival, Poetry Book Society, Emergency Summit.

• Gypsy Maker 5, Romani Cultural Arts Company, Wales. 

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

• Butcher’s Dog issue 16 Spring launch. Online.

• Poetry Please with Roger McGough, BBC Radio 4.

• ‘Listen’, AKE DIKHEA? Romani International Film Festival, Berlin.

• 'Exclusionary Estates: Travellers in the Thomas Bewick Archive', Sites of Inclusion Conference: Roma & Traveller Participation in the Arts Sector, RCAC, Art Central, The Riverfront, Wales. 

• Inequality Emergency Panel, Newcastle Poetry Festival & Poetry Book Society Emergency Poetry Summit.

• The Romani: Transhistorical Encounters as Dislocations Colloquium, Kings College London. (Keynote Speaker).

• Gypsy Maker 5 Exhibition Launch, Romani Cultural & Arts Company, Art Central, Wales. Featured on ITV News Cymru Wales.​

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2021  

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

• 'Romani Literature: A Keystone of the New Romanipen' by Dr. Delia Grigore, European Roma Institute for Arts & Culture. 

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

• Northern Writer's Awards Roadshow, New Writing North, 

• ‘Existence’, The Second Roma Biennale, Berlin, RomaTrial.

• Wagtail: The Roma Women’s Poetry Anthology, Launch. Online.

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

• North East Poetry Showcase, Durham Book Festival.

• Butcher’s Dog issue 15 Autumn launch. Online.

• 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.

• Butcher’s Dog issue 14 Spring launch. Online. 
   

2020   

• Butcher’s Dog issue 13 Autumn launch. Online. 

• Seren Online Events.

• The Stay at Home Literary Festival: Butcher's Dog digital showcase. 

• The Stay at Home Literary Festival: Outlandish & Moveable Type.

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

• Butcher’s Dog issue 12 Spring launch. Online. 

• Writing in Collaboration, The Stay at Home Literary Festival. 

• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Conference, Newcastle University. 

• Whose Heritage? Symposium: A (Multi)Cultural Perspective, Northumbria University with David Olusoga & Dawn Walton.
   

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, London. Poem read by Mona Arshi.

• Poems After The Blaydon Races, Shipley Art Gallery. 

• Leeds Trinity University Writers’ Festival.

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

• Interdisciplinarity Masterclass, Durham University Centre for Nineteenth-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.

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

• 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. Residential symposium. (AHRC Student Innovation Fund). 

• ‘Gypsy in the Archive’, Hospitalfield Arts Centre.

• 'Poetry of Witness & Tyneside Refugees', English: Shared Futures Conference, Newcastle University. 

• Archival Skills Symposium, Queens University Belfast. 

• ‘Poetry of Witness: Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Diaspora’, Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts: Poetry Festival, Newcastle University. 
   

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 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, Queens University Belfast.                     

• Wordspace, Leeds.

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

• ‘Ekphrasis in the Bewick Archive', Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts: First Thursday, Newcastle University, 

• 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   

• Bewick Society AGM, Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 

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

• Black Light Engine Room, Westgarth, Middlesbrough.