I performed, I spoke to various Mayors, my husband managed to take a photo of me looking like I was in the glare of a nuclear explosion. Due to ethics I felt I had to mention Pussy Riots imprisonment for performing in a Cathedral – something we were ourselves doing! I did not place, I […]
This weekend will see me at Gloucester Cathedral taking part in the Poet Laureate finals – apparently it is a sell out event gulp. Also Monday saw me at Cheltenham Community Radio recording poems for Poetry Corner which will be on tonight! (listen here) Here are the photos of me at the station 🙂 And […]
Saturday saw me once again in Waterstones Cheltenham at a poetry event – unfortunately I couldn’t stay much longer than my reading 🙁 Which was such a shame considering the line up! Here are the photos And here is a video of it The first one Shy has been recorded with a hammond organ. Shy […]
As if the last few week neigh months! had not been fantastic enough – I get an email asking if my poetry can be used for the Edinburgh e-book Festival! I have given them my poem Shy to use – do check it out 🙂 It looks fun! Mainly as it has a funky recording: […]
The next few days are going to be amazing – starting with tonight. I shall be in Bristol at the Grain Barge performing geek poetry, throwing knitting and giving a little talk on well sciency stuff 🙂 Here is the knitting 🙂 This is part of a regular event called Science Show Off which mainly […]
I now have poetry cards for my Celestial Montage. I’m selling them for £2 each – I think they have come out great 🙂 I will have them with me on Thursday (12th of July 2012) for Science Show Off at the Grain Barge in Bristol and again at Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire on Saturday.
I am mainly working on Ballads of the Scientifica at the moment. I need to get it finished to send copies to people who have generously sponsored me. But more than that I have found a science open mic night called Science Show Off which seems like exactly the sort of thing I should be […]
Sunday saw me dashing off to Stroud for the 40 yr celebration of the canal restoration to read poetry at the Stroud On Water Festival. I was sad I hadn’t made it on the previous days to see some of the fantastic acts but very happy to have been asked to read. We were running […]
At the weekend I took part in the Site Festival Slam in Stroud – it was held in a lovely little venue hidden down a side ally that I didn’t even know existed. I was very very nervous – but Marcus Moore greeted me in a friendly way and soon familiar faces from poetry readings […]
I will be performing in my first ever slam tomorrow Friday 25th of May 2012 at the Stroud Site Festival Slam run by Marcus Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury. Though I have done lots of poetry readings, including performance poetry pieces and even run workshops on poetry, I am finding this a bit scary due to […]