POETRY AND PROSECCO on Sat 13 June

I’m thrilled to be reading at Sarah Briault’s POETRY AND PROSECCO event coming up on Saturday 13 June. I was booked to read at last month’s P&P but, floored by covid, I had to pull out. I’m so pleased to be reading this time alongside my friends, both excellent poets, Charlotte Ansell and Maggie Harris. Thank you, Sarah, for organising these events so beautifully. More details are here:

On Saturday 13 June, 2026, from 7.30 – 9.30pm, Sarah Briault brings POETRY & PROSECCO to north Kent again for another  ‘fun, bubbly evening’ and I am excited to be a featured poet reading alongside CHARLOTTE ANSELL and MAGGIE HARRIS. We’ll be in the glamorous surroundings of the Oriole Cafe at Kent County Cricket’s Spitfire ground in Canterbury. Your ticket price includes a glass of Prosecco or non-alcoholic drink, and the chance to read your own words in the OPEN MIC. You can find more about the event here, with a photograph of Sarah reading ‘Safe Ground’. Books will be available at a pop-up book stall run by Chapters Coffee & Books of Sturry and tickets are through EVENTBRITE.  

Poetry & Prosecco event on Saturday 4 October at Canterbury Cricket Ground

Pack away sandals, sun-honeyed

limbs; autumn’s

here, welcome as wisdom (Bittersweet 17s, Lapwing, 2014)

Here in the UK leaves are falling and jerseys are coming out of our cupboards again. So, to cheer us up, Sarah Briault is organising her second Poetry & Prosecco event and has asked me to read alongside the excellent Sarah Hehir, Bethany Goodwill and Crista Brodie-Levinsohn. On Saturday 4 October, 2025, 7.30 – 10pm (doors open at 7pm), we’ll be at the Oriole Cafe, Spitfire Ground (Kent Cricket) St Lawrence Canterbury CT1 3NY. Book here through EVENTBRITE for this ‘fun, bubbly evening’. Your ticket price includes a glass of Prosecco (or non-alcoholic drink), free parking at the venue and the chance to read your own words in the open mic. 

(This photo was the cover for Sweet Seventeens, my first book of poetry, published by Dennis Greig of Lapwing in 2010)