2023
July 4 – Worshipful Company of Plumbers Summer Festival (Private)
2022
January 11 – Rose Playhouse (Online)
March 3 – Enfield Poets (Online)
March 8 – walk . listen . create (Online)
March 24 – Reweirding at the Amersham Arms
With Lara Maiklem & Caitlin Davies
April 2 – London Clay Retraced: Bow Creek (Walk starts at 11am)
May 26 – Salon for the City at The Horse Hospital
With Lara Maiklem
June 16 – Rye Books, East Dulwich
June 19 – The Walbrook Pilgrimage (Private walk)
June 30 — Enchanted City at the Brunel Museum, Rotherhithe
With Helen Gordon, Siddhartha Bose & Dzifa Benson
July 4-9 — Arvon Foundation, The Hurst, Shropshire (Tutor)
July 13 – Waterstones, Gower Street CANCELLED
July 16 – Southwark Cathedral (part of annual Mudlarking Day)
September 12 – The Golden Hinde
September 29 – Lost Rivers Club at The Gallery, London
With Tom Bolton, Kerry Andrew & Akil Scafe-Smith
October 20 – Hands on History: Discovering London Clay at London Bridge Hive (part of Totally Thames)
November 6 – Write Idea Festival at Bethnal Green Library
2021
September 12 — Chiswick Book Festival
September 19 – Pages of Hackney
An adventure along the River Lea with Siddhartha Bose
September 22 — Dulwich Books
September 25 — Burford Literary Festival
September 28 — Stanfords
With Matt Brown, author of Atlas of Imagined Places
October 27 — London Rivers Week (Online)
With Lara Maiklem & Tom Bolton
November 11 — Tring Book Festival
With Lara Maiklem & C. J. Schüler
November 16 — Southwark Cathedral
November 24 — Central House, UCL
In discussion with Harriet Hawkins
December 2 — The Newham Bookshop at The Wanstead Tap
2019
September 2-7 — Arvon Foundation, Totleigh Barton, Devon (Tutor)
2018
November 26-December 1 — Arvon Foundation, The Hurst, Shropshire (Tutor)
2017
July 21 — Poetry School (Talk)
November 18-23 — Arvon Foundation, The Hurst, Shropshire (Tutor)
2016
April 2 — Spike Island, Bristol
June 4 — Birkbeck, University of London (panel discussion)
October 26 — Society of Authors (panel discussion)
November 30 — Arvon Foundation, Totleigh Barton, Devon (guest reader)
2015
Mar 26 — Toynbee Studios, London
Apr 21 — Poetry School launch, Tea House Theatre, Vauxhall
May 8 — Wordlife, Sheffield
May 10 — Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Norwich Arts Centre (supporting Polar Bear)
May 14 — Private launch of Dark Islands, Rotherhithe Picture Library, London
May 16 — Guest appearance for Tales of London, Walbrook, London
May 23 — Greenwich Book Festival (1pm)
May 26 — The Point is To Feel It, RSA, London (and online)
Jun 6 — Stoke Newington Literary Festival, with Iain Sinclair and SJ Fowler (1pm)
Jun 17 — University of Kent, Canterbury
Jul 10 — The Verb, BBC Radio 3 Tune in at 10pm or listen back online
Jul 20 — Shindig, Leicester
Jul 26 — Keats House, Hampstead (2pm)
Jul 28 — Poetry Bites, Birmingham
Aug 19 — Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Sep 12 — Totally Thames: The Walbrook Pilgrimage (6.30pm)
Oct 28 — York St John University, with Sarah Hesketh
Nov 26 — Pighog Poetry, Brighton
2014
Nov 29 — The Shuffle, Poetry Cafe, London
Oct 31 — Day of the Deaded, Rich Mix, London
Sep 20 — London’s Lost Rivers Geek Off, Thames Festival
Sep 10 — Thames Natural History, Thames Festival
Sep 7 — The Walbrook Pilgrimage, Thames Festival
Jun 27-19 — The Listening Post, Battersea Arts Centre/LIFT Festival
Jun 21 — Museum of Water, Somerset House, London
June 20 — Moray Walking Festival, Findhorn Village Centre, Moray
Jun 8 — Stoke Newington Literary Festival
Jun 5 — Big Green Bookshop, Wood Green
Apr 3 — North London Literary Festival
Apr 2 — Creating the Local Space, Poetry Library
Feb 26 — Launch of Flood Drain, Candid Arts, London
Jan 29 — York St John University, York
2013
Dec 10 — Water, Waste, Disease and the Arts, University of Exeter
Nov 8 — Flood Drain, Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Hull
Oct 9 — The Guildhall, London
Oct 6 — The Walbrook Pilgrimage
Oct 5 — The Walbrook Pilgrimage
Oct 4 — The Walbrook Pilgrimage
Oct 3 — The Walbrook Pilgrimage
Oct 2 — The Walbrook Pilgrimage
Jun 30 — Workshop for ArtfulScribe, Southampton
Jun 28 — On Walking, University of Sunderland
Jun 8 — The Walbrook Pilgrimage
Jun 1-2 — The Neckinger Pilgrimage
May 27 — Urban Nature with Esther Woolfson, Southbank Centre
Apr 25 — Annexe, Toynbee Studios, London
Apr 24 — Science Museum Late
Apr 21 — The Walbrook Pilgrimage
Apr 20 — The Walbrook Pilgrimage
Mar 27 — Lost Rivers: Writing the Psychogeology of London, Bishopsgate Institute
Mar 23 — The Walbrook Pilgrimage
Feb 23 — The Walbrook Pilgrimage
Feb 19 — Kent & Sussex Poetry Society, Tunbridge Wells
Feb 18 — Magma Magazine Reading
2012
Nov 24 — Oxford PEN, New College, Oxford
Nov 22 — York St John University
Nov 19 — Nottingham University
Nov 15 — ADRIFT, Toynbee Arts Cafe, Londo
Oct 31 — Resonance FM (Radio)
Oct 17 — Poetry Cafe, London
Oct 11 — Symposium, Dulwich College, London
Oct 5 — Launch of ADRIFT, Rich Mix, London
Oct 4 — Swindon Poetry Festival
Oct 2 — ‘The Event’, Channel 4 Random Acts (TV)
Sep 26 — Science Museum Late
Aug 24-25 — Urban Poetic at The Developing City
Jul 6 — The Eden Project, Cornwall
Jun 26 — World Poetry Summit at Southbank Centre
Jun 24 — The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon
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