EVENTS
2025
Use the Words You Have (novel with Somesuch Editions) and Caleb Klaces (Mr Outside, Prototype Books), Rise @ Bluebird Bakery, Acomb, York [Nov 20, details TBA]
Kildare Book Festival with Jessica Traynor, hosted by Catherine Gander [Maynooth, Oct 14]
Ledbury Poetry Festival:
Doing Dante Differently: Two Performances (with Philip Terry) [June 28]
Translation Brunch (with Philip Terry, Sascha Akhtar, Andrea di Serego Alighieri) [June 29)
Poetry & Transformation (with Sascha Akhtar) [June 29]
‘Disarticulating the Digital: Extraordinary Power tra i Confini’, a lecture-performance, Society for Italian Studies themed conference: Italian Studies at the Digital Turn. Practice, Methods, Interdisciplinarity, University of Leeds [June 24 — open to the public]
Community Lyric (with Verity Spot and Anthony Vahni Capildeo) public reading at The Horse Hospital to coincide with Rethinking Lyric Communities [London, June 21; see here]
Use the Words You Have in conversation with Jason Allen-Paisant, Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds [July 3]
Use the Words You Have (novel with Somesuch Editions) in conversation with Vida Adamczewski [June 18, Brick Lane Books London; tickets here]
Use the Words You Have launch party (novel with Somesuch Editions) – [7 pm, June 12, Reference Point, London]
lunchtime reading for York Centre for Writing, with Hasib Hourani [June 5]
Reading with Sascha Aurora Akhtar, University of Sheffield Centre for Poetry and Poetics [May 22]
‘Use the Words You Have to Get the Words You Need’, EUTERPE SUMMIT Susan Stanford Friedman Memorial Keynote performance-lecture, University of York [May 20 — open to the public]
launch of An Interesting Detail (Bloomsbury Poetry), Rise @ Bluebird Bakery, Acomb, York [May 9]
Northern Lights IN/FORM with Caroline Bergvall, Nasser Hussain, JR Carpenter, and more, HEART Centre, Headingley, Leeds [March 28]
Lecture-performance, ‘A floating thing, a seed with wings: A performance from This Knot a new version of Dante’s Commedia with the Poet K’, Florida Gulf Coast University, [Feb 26 & 27]
Lecture-performance, ‘Descending into Detail: Meanwhile in Dante’s Commedia with the Poet K’, University College Cork Centre for Dante Studies Public Lecture Series [Feb 17]
Performance, Poetry Ireland Review Launch, University of Notre Dame Dublin Global Gateway, [Jan 21]
2024
(S)worn State(s) (The Salvage Press), launch Dec 16, Museum of Literature Ireland (Dublin)]
Reading for Stanza della Poesia, Palazzo Ducale, Genova [Dec 7]
‘Circling Translation’, a poetry reading & conversation with Nicoletta Asciuto for Writers at York, University of York [Nov 20, 5 pm]
‘Seeing through Reading: The Poet K Versions Dante’s Commedia for the Poetics Research Group’, chaired by Beatrice Carnelutti, CUNY Graduate Centre, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016 [Oct 10, 4:00-5:30m room 4406]
MOTHERBABYHOME exhibited at the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol at the invitation of artist Keira Greene for the screening of her film Máthair with Pass the Frame, a creative practice workshop [Oct 25, 26]
lecture-performance for Dante’s Global Female Public: Readers, Writers and Collectors, University of Warwick [Sept 12, 13]
MOTHERBABYHOME exhibited as part of Is This a Poem? curated by Christodoulos Makris for Museum of Literature Ireland (Dublin) as reviewed in Books Ireland [Feb - Sept]
reading from in-progress versioning of Dante's Commedia for Xing the Line, London [July 14]
Leeds Literature Festival with Tolka magazine [June 18]