2021 READINGS
28 November 2021
Women of Words
Hudson Street Hum
Hamilton, Newcastle
3-5pm
24 November 2021
Generation Women
Surry Hills
Time & venue to be confirmed
18 August 2021
Sydney Poetry Lounge
Upstairs at The Friend in Hand Pub
Cowper St, Glebe
7pm
23 June 2021
Garden Lounge Creative
573 King Street
Newtown
6pm onwards …
5 June 2021
What The Light Tells
The Bowral District Art Society Gallery
1 Short Street, tucked in behind the Library
Reading alongside Mark Tredinnick & Peter Ramm
Ticketed event
7.30pm-9.30pm
3 April 2021
Garden Lounge Creative
573 King Street
Newtown
Feature Poet
24 March 2021
Collins Bookshop Thirroul
Feature Poet
6.30pm
2020 READINGS
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*AS OF 18 MARCH, ALL READINGS & EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED/POSTPONED DUE TO THE IMPACT OF THE CORONA VIRUS*
22 May 2020
Feature Reader
Far From The Madding Crowd
Linlithgow, Scotland
19 May 2020
Scottish Writers Centre
In conversation with Australian poet, Skye Loneragan who lives in Glasgow
discussing the surprises & cultural challenges of writing in Australia as a Glasgow poet and vice versa.
16 May 2020
Feature Reader
The Bakehouse, Galloway, Scotland
13 May 2020
The Lighthouse Bookstore, Edinburgh
Launch of UK edition of ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’
during Feminist Week, Scotland
30 April 2020
In conversation/sharing of poetic process within Poetic Tour
of ‘Shadow Catchers’ exhibition at AGNSW. 9am.
29 April 2020
Reading 3 poems I wrote in response to 3 photographs in the exhibition,
‘Shadows Catchers’ commissioned by AGNSW & Red Room Company
(as part of Sydney Writers Festival)
6-7PM AGNSW ‘Art After Hours’
10-12 April 2020
Reading at inaugural Sydney Poetry Festival
Darlinghurst (organised by Poetry Sydney)
2 April 2020
Collins Bookstore
Thirroul NSW 2515
7pm
26 March 2020
Glasgow City Cultural Event
Feature Reader at a private event promoting the city of Glasgow
Audience of arts journalists
Surry Hills, Sydney
20 March 2020
Reading with singer Ben Salter & NZ Poet Dom Hoey
Cabaret event at Petersham Bowling Club, Sydney.
19 March 2020
Launch of my second collection
‘the lactic acid in the calves of your despair’
Better Read Than Dead Bookshop
King Street, Newtown, Sydney
6.30pm
19 March 2020
Interview live on air at
ABC Radio Melbourne
‘Evenings with David Astle’
18 March 2020
Feature Reader at a private event promoting the city of Glasgow
Audience of arts journalists
Carlton, Melbourne
27 Feb 2020
Woollahra Library Poets’ Picnic
Blackburn Gardens, Double Bay
Sydney Harbour
4 Feb 2020
Poetry Salon, Sydney
Feature Poet
2019 READINGS
28 November 2019
WestWords
91b Grose Street, Parramatta 7-8pm
I’ll be reading and talking about poetry and, ‘Death, Honesty, Menopause & The Kitchen Sink’
27 November 2019
Westwords Guest on Radio Alive 90.5 FM
6-8pm
16 November 2019
Reading my poems published in The Blue Nib magazine @ Garden Lounge Creative in Newtown, Sydney.
22 OCTOBER 2019
Melbourne – La Mama Theatre
21 OCTOBER
Guest on David Astle’s ABC Radio Melbourne discussing poetry & my top 5 movies.
CORK, Ireland
9 September 2019
O’Bheal Poetry Readings
DUBLIN
8 September 2019
Books Upstairs
BELFAST
7th September 2019
Waterstone’s Belfast
LIMERICK
5th September 2019
On the Nail Event
Limerick Writers Centre
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 2019
26th August 2019
Flint & Pitch Event in the Spiegel Tent! – Free event, un-ticketed!
EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL 2019
9 & 10th August 2019
Reading with Word Jazzology at The Scottish Poetry Library
SYDNEY
Sunday 4th August 2019
Brett Whitely Studio, Surry Hills, Sydney
SYDNEY
1st August 2019
University of Western Sydney
Reading at the Australia/Chinese Department
NEWCASTLE
29 July 2019
Poetry at The Pub
The Wickham Park Hotel, Newcastle
SYDNEY
22nd May 2019
Feature Poet at Live Poets at Don Bank
6 Napier Street, North Sydney
SYDNEY
9th April 2019
Feature Poet at Sapphos Poetry Night Glebe
SYDNEY
21st March 2019
Kinokinuya Book Store, Sydney
Celtic Word Event – I’ll be reading with Celtic poets Magi Gibson & Anne Casey – and Irish Novelist/Stand Up Comedian, Ian Macpherson
WOLLONGONG
31st March 2019
Feature Poet at Girls on Key event at Society City, Wollongong
SYDNEY
Thursday 28th March 2019
Feature Poet at Glasgow City Council event held in Sydney
ORANGE NSW
23rd Feb 2019
The Banjo Paterson Poetry Festival
De Sallis Wines Vineyard, ORANGE, NSW
CANBERRA
11th Feb 2019
Feature Poet at That Poetry Thing
NEWCASTLE NSW
9th January
The Cuplet
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2018
MELBOURNE
Wed 7th November 2018
Feature Poet at Open Studio, 204 High St, Northcote VIC 3070
SYDNEY
Tuesday 6th November 2018
Feature Poet at The Sydney Poetry Lounge,
Upstairs at The Friend in Hand Pub, 58 Cowper Street, Glebe, NSW
NEWCASTLE NSW AUSTRALIA
Saturday 27th October 2018
Feature Poet at The Press Book House
462 Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
INVERNESS
Saturday 6th October 2018
The Ness Book Festival, Inverness, Scotland
EDINBURGH
2nd October 2018
Feature Poet at Inky Fingers Edinburgh @ The Lighthouse Bookshop
GLASGOW
21 September 2018
Reading with Magi Gibson at WORD JAZZOLOGY @ Patrickhill Bowling Club, Glasgow
GLASGOW
30th August 2018
Reading with Magi Gibson at WORD JAZZOLOGY @Babbity Bowsters, Glasgow
EDINBURGH
25th August 2018
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival
(As part of The Poets’ Republic event) @ The Scottish Poetry Library
5 Crichton’s Cl, Edinburgh EH8 8DT
SYDNEY
Friday 13th July 2018
6 for 6.30pm
Official Book Launch of ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’
Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, Sydney
WOLLONGONG
Wednesday 4th July 2018
Feature Poet at The Philanthropy Tribe Bookshop & Cafe
NEWCASTLE NSW
Sunday 6th May 2018
Girls on Key event at The Women’s Room, 6 Beaumont Street, Islington, Newcastle, NSW
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Aarrggghhh! 17th June 2018: Due to a massively inconvenient health glitch, I am unable to read at the following dates in Ireland, although my friends & poetry colleagues will be reading from my book, ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’ in my absence at each event. Massive thanks to exquisite poets Anne Casey, Eleanor Hooker & Nathanael O’Reilly for their incredible support and astonishingly generous hearts.
IRELAND
Thursday 21st June 2018
Rowan Tree Readings, Poetry Ireland, 11 Parnell Square, Dublin
Saturday 23rd June 2018
Galway, (venue to be confirmed)
Sunday 24th June 2018
The Salmon Bookshop, Ennistymon, County Clare
Monday 25th June 2018
Nelly’s Corner, Limerick
Friday 29th June 2018
Over The Edge Poetry Reading, The Kitchen @ Galway City Museum, Spanish Parade, Galway
Monday 2nd July 2018
Ó Bhéal Poetry Reading, The Long Valley, Winthrop St, Cork