(the launch of Straight Ahead at Nelson's Wine Bar, Hebden Bridge 2006)
What's coming up?
After a year of drought - actually, a year of nappies, wind and very little sleep - I've started to give readings again. Gee, it's great to be back!
Forthcoming 2010:
March
3rd March: Reading at re-lauch of Asylum Magazine, 6pm, Manchester Metropolitan University John Dalton Building, Oxford Road Manchester (opposite BBC building)
6th March: Reading at the launch of "Writing the Self" (ed Myra Schneider), Village Hall, Manchester 7.30
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Writing-Your-Self-Transforming-Personal/dp/1847062520
16th March: reading with "Some Girl's Mothers", Kendal Brewery Arts Centre 7.30
http://www.breweryarts.co.uk/event-detail.cfm?id=814&type=7
April
17th April: reading with Jackie Kay and Paula Meehan at Dorothy Wordsworth Festival of Women's Writing, in association with Carol Ann Duffy
18th April: participant in panel discussion at Dorothy Wordsworth Festival of Women's Writing, Dove Cottage, Grasmere. "Women-only spaces: does poetry still need trhem?" - chaired by Dannet Steffens from Mslexia.
http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/events/index.asp?pageid=487
21st April - 26th May: facilitator of weekly Poetry School introductory poetry course "(Not) just saying it", 7pm. Manchester Friends' Meeting House. Download the Poetry School brochure at:
May
27th May: reading at Liverpool Bluecoat's Poetry Cafe "Two cities" event